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coloured fruit with which it is loaded in the autumn, is a suitable 
ornament for lawns in pleasure-grounds. 
3. Epidendrum cemulum. Emulous Epidendrum. A very rare 
little orchideous plant, closely allied to the variable E. fragrans, from 
which it is distinguished by its gouty stems being exactly oval—by its 
more leathery, less acuminate leaves, and very much smaller flowers, the 
petals of which are the same width as the sepals. It is a native of 
Para, whence it was introduced by R. Harrison, Esq., with whom it 
flowered in 1834. 
4. Pentstemon heterophyllum. Various-leaved Pentstemon. A hardy 
herbaceous plant, belonging to the natural order Scrophularicicece; a 
native of California, where the seeds were collected by Mr. Douglas. 
It is propagated either by cuttings or seeds, and thrives and flowers 
well in borders of common garden soil. 
5. Escallonia illinita. Varnished Escallonia. A South American 
evergreen shrub and genus, giving a title to the natural order Escallo- 
niacece, of which it is the type. “ It is,” says Dr. Lindley, ,c by far 
the most hardy of the many species of Escallonia at present in our 
gardens, and is not unlikely to become a common shrubbery plant. If 
this should prove so, the pale green of the leaves, their varnished 
appearance, and the peculiar habit of the plant, will render it a valuable 
ornamental species, notwithstanding the want of beauty in its greenish- 
white flowers.” The most showy of this genus is the E. Montevi- 
densis, which is also nearly hardy. It, in the flowering season, August 
and September, is usually covered with hundreds of hemispherical 
heads of clear white flowers, over which countless insects keep up a 
musical hum as they flit from flower to flower in quest of honey. “ As 
one looks at these creatures, enlivened by the warmth of a bright sunny 
day, one cannot but admire the exquisite beauty of the ball-room that 
nature thus provides for an insect festival.” 
6. Scaphy glottis violacea. Violet Boatlip. A very inconspicuous 
genus, belonging to Or chide ce. It is a native of Demerara, whence it 
was imported by Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are purple, and very 
minute ; more a botanical rarity than anything else. It was formerly 
called Cladobiurn. 
7. Cytisus JEolicus. iEolian Cytisus. A new cytisus from the 
island of Stromboli, in the Mediterranean. It was raised from seed by 
the Hon.W. Strangways, at Abbotsbury, in Dorsetshire, at which place 
it flowered for the first time in England, in May last. It is expected 
that the blossoms will become handsome and more numerous as the 
plant grows older. The flowers are congregated on an erect kind of 
spike; and though they have the colour, they have not the elegant 
