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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
little hemispherical umbels of pure white small flowers, having 
a slight fragrance. In habit it may be compared to a weak 
spirea opulifolia; its leaves, when full-grown, are about an inch 
and a half long, much wrinkled, wedge-shaped and entire at the 
base, unequally serrated towards the point and covered beneath 
with wool, which becomes cinnamon-coloured as it grows old. 
The uppermost leaves beneath the umbels are oval or oblong and 
unequally serrated. It appears to be nearly hardy, grows about 
two feet high, and flowers freely in any good garden soil. We 
may expect this to prove an ornamental shrub for planting in 
sheltered situations and warm districts. It was sent from Chusan 
by Mr. Fortune, and flowered in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society last March.— Bot. Beg. 28-47. 
OLEACEiE. Diandria Monogynia. 
Forsythia viridissima (Lindley). Another of Mr. Fortune’s 
plants; he describes it as “ a deciduous shrub with very dark 
green leaves, which are prettily serrated at the margin. It grows 
about eight or ten feet high in the north of China, and sheds 
its leaves in autumn. It then remains dormant like any of the 
deciduous shrubs of Europe, but is remarkable for the number 
of large prominent buds which are scattered along the young 
stems produced the summer before. Early in spring these buds 
which are flower-buds gradually unfold themselves, and present 
a profusion of bright yellow blossoms all over the shrub, which 
is highly ornamental.” It may be expected to become a great 
favorite, for when old enough to flower, the branches will be 
found loaded before the leaves with yellow flowers as large as 
those of Chimoanthus grandiflorus. — Bot. Beg. 39-47. 
IuiDACEiE. —Monodelphia Triandria. 
Bigidella orthantha. This new and brilliant flowering bulbous 
plant was blooming in the stove of Messrs. Knight and Perry, 
King’s Road, Chelsea, last October. Nothing is known of the 
history and introduction of this species; probably, however, it 
is a native of Mexico, and found its way into Europe through 
some of the continental travellers, and from thence was introduced 
into England. It is a bulbous perennial, growing about eighteen 
inches high, with lanceolate, plaited, pale green leaves; the 
