DESCRIPTIVE LIST OE NEW PLANTS. 
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rescence and the leaves, some of which are a foot in length.— 
Bot. Mag. 4325. 
THYMELACEiE. —Octandria Monogynia. 
Edgworthia Chrysantha (Lindley). This shrub was found by 
Mr. Fortune in Chusan, and by him was sent to the Horticultural 
Society in April 1845. It flowered for the first time in February 
1847, in a greenhouse. 
In the Journal of the Horticultural Society it is described as 
“a dwarf soft-wooded plant, throwing up rod-like dull green 
stems from its base, and bearing the leaves exclusively near their 
ends. The leaves are about eight or nine inches long, oblong- 
lanceolate, stalked, very dull green, and covered with fine hairs, 
so small and closely pressed to the surface that the naked eye 
fails to discern them. The flowers have not yet been produced 
in England, but Mr. Fortune’s Chinese drawings and specimens 
show them to be bright yellow, something less than an inch long, 
covered with exceedingly thick hair on the outside, and collected 
into balls about two inches in diameter at the ends of the shoots. 
He adds, that they are sweet-scented, and appear in Chusan in 
July. The species is allied to Edgworthia (or Daphne) Gard- 
neri, a Nepal plant, with a similar habit, from which it differs in 
having longer and more slender flowers, larger flower-heads, and 
a much more silky hairiness on the outside of the flower. 
It is a greenhouse plant, growing freely in sandy loam and 
peat, and though it requires an ample supply of moisture in 
summer, for a few weeks in winter very little water is required, 
as it is liable to damp off; in order to induce it to flower, the 
Chinese bind the stems so as to form a loop, and this practice 
has been followed with success in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, where it has now flowered in the month of May.— Bot. 
Reg. 48-47. 
Caprifoliaceas . —Pentandria Trigynia . 
Viburnum plicatum (Thunberg). This, which is another of 
the plants procured by Mr. Fortune for the Horticultural Society, 
is described in their Journal “ as a handsome deciduous bush, bear¬ 
ing some resemblance to the North American Viburnum dentatum. 
The leaves are broad, coarsely serrate, somewhat plaited, dark 
green, narrowed to the base, and furnished with an abrupt point 
