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and are of a rich purplish-brown colour ; the corolla is divided into five roundish acuminated hairy-pubescent 
lobes, of an ashy brown, with the rich purple-brown staminal crown of ovate fleshy leaflets standing in the centre. 
From Java • woods of Panarang. Introduced about 1848. Flowers in autumn. Messrs. Yeitch, of Exeter. 
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Parsonsia variabilis, Bindley. 
Yariable-leaved Parsonsia ( Joum. 
Hort. Soc., v. 196).—Nat. Ord., 
Apocynacese, § Parsonseae.—A very 
curious slender, twining green¬ 
house shrub, with shining leaves, 
very variable in form, very nar¬ 
rowly linear, with the base rounded 
and sub-undulate, or oval-acute, or 
obovate, or linear, dilated at the 
end into a circular blade. The 
flowers are in short leafy panicles, 
hut are not very showy; they 
are cream-coloured, sweet-scented, 
with the corollas hell-shaped. From 
New Zealand. Introduced in 1847. 
Flowers in May and June. Horti¬ 
cultural Society of London. 
Ixora salicitolia, Be Candolle. "Willow-leaved Ixora 
{Sot. Mag. t. 4523).—Nat. Ord., Cinchonacese § Cin- 
choneae.—Syn: Pavetta salicifolia,- Flume. —A splendid 
stove shrub, of erect habit, growing two to three feet 
high, probably higher. The leaves are opposite, rather 
closely placed along the stems, almost sessile, narrow- 
lanceolate or willow-like, a span long, shining green 
above. The flowers grow in large terminal corymbs, forming hemispherical heads, and are deep orange red or 
flame-coloured (in a variety with somewhat smaller blossoms, almost crimson) ; they are upwards of an inch in 
diameter, and consist of a long slender almost filiform tube, and a spreading limb of four lanceolate ovate acute lobes. 
From Java : Mount Serihu. Introduced by Mr. T. Lobh about 1848. Flowers in summer. Messrs. Yeitch of Exeter. 
Berberis Wallichiana, I)e Candolle. Wallich’s Berberry (Paxt. FI. Gard. i., 79).—Nat. Ord., Berberaceae § 
Berherese.—Syn : B. macrophylla of gardens ; B. atrovirens, G. Bon. —A very ornamental half-hardy, perhaps 
hardy evergreen shrub, growing ten feet high, and furnished with dark green dense elliptic sharp-pointed serrated 
leaves, growing in clusters, the branches also hearing slender three-parted spines. The flowers are clustered in 
the axils of the leaves on short stalks, and are large, and of a deep yellow colour, giving the plant a very orna¬ 
mental aspect. From Java : mountains, 9000 feet elevation. Introduced in 1845, by Mr. T. Lobh. Flowers in 
summer. Messrs. Yeitch of Exeter. It has stood three winters at Exeter, without shelter. 
1. Ixora salicifolia. 
2. Berberis Wallichiana. 
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