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subpalmately or pedately five-lobed, attached by very long petioles ; the upper leaves are sessile. The flowers 
are nodding, about a couple of inches across, and have a hirsute calyx of two sepals, four bright yellow petals, 
and numerous orange-coloured anthers. Its duration is not certainly known, but it is recommended to be treated 
as a hardy annual. From Sikkim Himalaya. Introduced in 1850. Flowers in June, ripening its seed in July. 
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Rhamnus hirsutus, Wight and Arnott. Hairy Buckthorn (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 86). — Nat. Ord., Rhanmaceas. 
— A hardy deciduous shrub, with ovate or oblong-lanceolate leaves, and small green flowers, extremely like the 
common Buckthorn, but having the leaves hairy beneath. From the mountains of India. Introduced before 
1850. Flowers in June. 
Rhamnus croceus, Nuttall. Croceous Buckthorn {Jour. Sort. Soc, vi., 217). — Nat. Ord., Rhanmacea;. — A 
small evergreen, of a neat habit and appearance, but not quite hardy in the climate of London. It is much 
branched and thorny, with small shining ovate leaves, and small fascicles of inconspicuous flowers. From 
California; sea shore, near Monterey. Introduced in 1848 by Mr. Hartweg. Flowers in June. Horticultural 
Society of London. 
Coriaria nepalensis, Wcillich. Nepal Coriaria (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., 86). — Nat. Ord., Ochnacea?. — A hardy 
trailing deciduous bush, growing ten or twelve feet high in its native country, but in England frequently cut back 
by frost, and then sending up strong shoots from the roots. The stems are stout, and four-cornered. The leaves 
are smooth, three to five nerved, oblong-acute, in opposite pairs, placed in a distichous order. The small drooping 
clusters of brownish-red flowers come early on the leafless branches. From the Himalayas. Introduced about 
1846. Flowers in May. Horticultural Society of London. 
Eucalyptus coccifera, Hooker, fil. Cocciferous Eucalyptus (Jour. Sort. Soc, vi., 221). — Nat. Ord., 
Myrtacea3 § Leptospermeas. — Syn, E. montana of the gardens. — A small tree, hardy at Exeter as a standard, and 
at London against a wall ; it is rather ornamental. The plant is covered in every part with a thick bluish bloom. 
The leaves are oblong, more or less narrow, long-stalked, usually equal-sided, and commonly extended at the point 
into a slender awn. The flowers are in clusters of three to five together in the axils of the leaves ; the calyx-tube 
pear-shaped, and the ray of filaments white. At Exeter, where it flowers freely, the tree looks like an apple or 
pear tree loaded with blossom. From Van Dieman's Land. Introduced in 1840. Flowers in June. Messrs. 
Veitch of Exeter. 
Calycanthus occidentalis, Sooker. Western Allspice (Jour. Sort. Soc., vi., 218). — Nat. Ord., Calycanthaceas. 
— A shrub growing about six feet high, and having oblong-acuminate smooth leaves, and solitary brownish-red 
flowers, with a sub-acid unpleasant odour ; the sepals and petals are linear-lanceolate obtuse, the outer ones 
spreading or rolled back, the inner erect, few, of unequal lengths, and incurved. It is said to hear a handsomer 
foliage than the Carolina Allspices, but without their delicious fragrance. From California, along rivulets, near 
Sonoma. Introduced in 1848 by Mr. Hartweg. Flowers in June and July. Horticultural Society of London. 
Jasminum lineare, It, Brown. Linear-leaved Jasmine (Sook. Ie. Plant., t. 831). — Nat. Ord., Jasminaceae. — 
A pretty and fragrant, somewhat twining shrub, either pubescent or glabrous, having trifoliolate leaves, the 
leaflets of which are linear or linear-oblong, from two to four inches long. The flowers grow in cymose panicles, 
from the axils .of the leaves, of which they do not reach more than one-third the length ; they are small, white, 
numerous, and delicately fragrant. From South Australia, and the sub-tropical interior of New Holland 
Introduced before 1851. Flowers in summer. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Epidentjrum coriifolium, Lindley. Coris-leaved Epidendruni (Jour. Sort. Soc., vi. 218). — Nat. Ord., 
Orchidaceae § Epidendrese-Laeliada?. — A stove epiphyte, of no beauty, being a short dense terminal spike, of 
leathery pale green flowers, which have a broad roundish convex lip. The stem is furnished with narrow stiff 
sub-distichous leaves, whieh are concave and carinate. The plant is in all its parts of a tough thick leathery 
texture, and is generally glazed, as it were, with a shining exudation. From Central America. Introduced by 
G. U. Skinner, Esq , in 1849. Flowers in March and April. Horticultural Society of London. 
Ceanothus cuneatus, Nuttall. Wedge-leaved Ceanothus (Jour. Sort. Soc, vi., 220). — Nat. Ord., Rhamnacese. 
— A half-hardy shrub, growing six to ten feet high, with interwoven branches. The leaves are small, oblong 
wedge-shaped, rarely with one or two teeth near the extremity. The small white scanty flowers are in small 
axillary umbels, and are not attractive. From California: Sacramento mountains. Introduced in 1848, by Mr. 
Hartweg. Flowers in May. Horticultural Society of London. 
HINTS ON CAMELLIA GROWING. 
By Mr. R. ERRINGTON, Gardener to Sir P. M. Egerton, Bast., M.P., Oulton Park. 
M LTHOUGH the Camellia is not a usual exhibition plant, it would seem to possess every eligibility 
&!X for that purpose ; inasmuch as its season of flowering may be easily extended over eight months 
of the year ; and its capabilities for improvement nobody can doubt, since very considerable advances, 
it will be seen, have already been made, if we cast our eye over the last twenty years. Although we f. 
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