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loamy soil, and plenty of moisture during the growing season. 
Afterwards, when done flowering, it should be allowed a time of 
rest, by gradually withholding moisture until the soil in the pots 
becomes tolerably dry, when the plant should be placed in the 
warmest and driest part of the greenhouse until the following 
spring. At that season the plants should be fresh potted, cut 
back freely, and placed in a gentle, moist heat for a few weeks. 
It is easily increased by cuttings, and flowers the greater part of 
summer and autumn.— -Bot. Beg. 36-46. 
Ericaceae. —Decandria Monogynia. 
Azalea obtusa. This remarkable species was sent to the garden 
of the Horticultural Society, by Mr. Fortune, July 26, 1844, 
from Shanghae. It is a little bush, with very blunt leaves, both 
smaller and narrower in proportion than we find upon the species 
already in our gardens, and also smaller flowers, of the most 
glowing red. The latter have uniformly five stamens only, the 
characteristic mark of the genus Azalea, and thus seems to show 
that the additional number hitherto remarked in the Chinese 
species is a mere result of cultivation. The segments of the co¬ 
rolla are nearly oval and sharp-pointed; the upper one is not 
much smaller than the others, and is faintly blotched with purple. 
Its high northern latitude would seem to indicate that this plant 
may be hardy; but it has hitherto been treated as a greenhouse 
shrub. In addition to its other merits, it has that of being 
sweet-scented, like sweet-briar.— Bot. Beg. 37-46. 
Epacridace^e. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Epacris dubia. This plant has small white flowers ; it differs 
from E. heteronema in having narrower leaves, which are plainly 
three-ribbed through their whole length, terminated by a blunt 
callus, and not by a slender spine; from E. paludosa , for its 
leaves are not acerose, nor are the lobes of the corolla large and 
rounded ; nor is it E. obtusifolia , for it is not slender enough, 
nor are the leaves abruptly blunt, nor is the calyx ciliated. But 
a question is asked whether it be a true species, or merely a garden 
hybrid, and, in the absence of information on this head, the 
above specific term has. been appropriately given.— Bot. Beg. 
38-46. 
GESNERiACEiE. —Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Gesneria bulbosa , var. lateritia. I much fear that the Ges- 
