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on this circumstance I have since grounded my winter treatment. 
The plants are repotted as soon as their seed has ripened, which 
is usually about the beginning of August, and being then placed 
in rather small pots, well drained, and filled with sandy loam, 
they stand in the open air, in a sunny position, sheltered from 
rains, till the middle of October; they have not generally made 
much progress when taken into the house, the leaves being small, 
leathery-looking, and anything but handsome, and so they 
remain often till February, but as this character may at any time 
be readily altered, I do not mind it. A shelf suspended from 
the roof of the greenhouse receives them, and there they remain, 
with but little water, till about the middle of February, when 
they are repotted, and soon assume a different aspect. The 
restricted growth in autumn, placing them in loam rather than a 
lighter material, and keeping them subsequently in unobstructed 
light and a free current of air, I believe to be the essential 
points, by observing which success seldom fails. 
Kryptos. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
RANTJNCULACEiE. — P.olyandria Polygynia. 
Clematis indivisa , var. lohata (Hooker). This is really an 
ornamental and showy greenhouse plant, native of New Zealand, 
discovered by Forster, during Cook’s voyage, and of which seeds 
were sent to us by the Rev. W. Colenso from the same country. 
Mr. Allan Cunningham found it on the margin of woods, on the 
shores of the Bay of Islands, and on the Hokianga River. It 
quite festoons the trees and shrubs with its dense foliage and 
large panicles of flowers. With us it flowered in April 1848. It 
is a scandent plant, with very lengthy terete branches; opposite, 
ternate leaves, the leaflets two or three inches long, in this variety 
deeply lobed, almost pinnatifid at the margin; the panicles 
copious, axillary, often a foot long, divided sometimes from the 
base by opposite branches, and there are two bracteas near the 
middle of the pedicels ; flowers dioecious, large, white, and cream- 
coloured, of from five to seven spreading, oblong; large, striated, 
silky (on both sides) petals; the stamens at first form a compact 
