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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
three on the stem ; the flowers are wholly white, with greenish white calyces. It has the odour of the genus. From 
North America : St. Louis. Introduced to Belgium in 1844. Flowers in July and August. Botanic Garden, Liege. 
Cordyline Sieboldii, var maculata, Planchon. Spotted leaved Siehold’s Cordyline {Flore cles Serves vi., 
569).—Nat. Ord., Liliaceoe § Asparagese.—Syn., Dracaena Sieboldii, Planchon. —A fine stove shrub, with slender 
simple or branching stems, five to seven feet high, numerously furnished in the upper parts with oblong deflexed 
leaves, four to six inches long, dark green on the upper surface, prettily marked with yellowish green blotches. 
The flowers grow in terminal or axillary slightly-branched panicles, and are greenish white, compared by Dr. 
Planchon, with those of a hyacinth. From Java. Introduced to the Belgian gardens by Dr. Yon Siebold, about 
1848. Flowers in summer. M. Van Houtte of Ghent. 
Heracleum Wilhelmsve, Fischer. Mad. Wilhelms’ Heracleum. {La Pelg. Sort., i., 113). Nat. Ord., 
Apiacese § Peucedanidae.—A large robust noble-habited hardy perennial growing from eight to ten feet high. The 
leaves grow to the height of three feet, and form a bold mass, as much, or more in diameter; the full grown 
leaves are pinnate, the earlier ones with a pair of leaflets or ternate; the lateral pinnce are pinnatipartite, the 
intermediate one sessile, the lobes of all semi-lanceolate acuminate ; they are lively green pubescent beneath, 
the robust petioles green. The stems are robust, terminating in a very large umbel of large white flowers, the 
petals at the circumference three times as large as those in the centre ; the branches bear smaller umbels, and 
their subdivisions bear others which are smaller still; the anthers are black. The fruit is large, from five to 
seven lines long, without hairs. From Iberia. Introduced in 1849. Flowers in summer. 
Phyllocactus caulorrhizus, Lemaire. Booting-stemmed Phyllocactus. {Le Jar din Fleur iste, i., 6). Nat. 
Ord., Cactacese § Phyllanthidse.—Syn., P. crenatus, of some gardens.- —A fine succulent cool stove shrub, in some 
gardens confounded with P. crenatus. It has robust compressed oblong glaucescent subarticulate stems, crenated 
along the edges ; at these crenatures, are produced, on the young stems, roundish scales larger than in the allied 
kinds; and numerous adventitious rootlets issue from the articulations. The flowers in general form, size, and 
colour, resemble those of Cereus grandijlorus ; the exterior divisions of the perianth oblong, channelled, yellow, the 
inner oblong-obovate, their outer surface and margins yellow, inner surface white; the filaments slender, green, 
with yellowish white anthers; the style white, terminated by a ten-parted stellate white papillose stigma. The 
flowers, which only open towards evening and close the next day, have a faint and not very agreeable odour. 
Native country not stated: probably Honduras. Introduced (to Belgium) before 1848. Flowers in June. 
Phyllocactus anguliger, Lemaire. Angular-margined Phyllocactus. {Le Jardin Fleur., i., 6.) Nat. Ord., 
Cactacese § Phyllanthkkc.—A distinct-looking succulent cool stove shrub, of which it does not appear that 
the flowers are known. It has the general appearance of P. (Epiphyllum) Ackermanni, with numerous divari¬ 
cating, very fleshy compressed branches, which are remarkable from the deeply angular form of the 
crenatures along their edges ; the little scales usual on the young branches of these plants, are in this species 
wanting, and replaced by a simple opening of the epidermis where is formed an areole of short white wool inter¬ 
mixed with some setacous spines. M. Lemaire’s plant appears to have been received from the Horticultural 
Society of London; and is therefore, no doubt, the cleeply-cut-stemmed Epiphyllum, found by Mr. Hartweg, 
inhabiting the trees of an oak forest near Matanejo in Mexico, in January 1846, whence it appears to have been sent 
to the Horticultural Society. 
Freziera theoides, Swartz. Tea-leaved Freziera. {Lot. Mag., t. 4546.) Nat. Ord., Ternstromiacese. — Syn., 
Eroteum theoides, Swartz. —A stove evergreen shrub or small tree, smooth in every part, with alternate elliptic- 
lanceolate serrated deep-green leathery leaves attached by short stalks, from the axils of which grow the creamy 
white solitary drooping flowers, an inch and a half across. The plant bears globose purple juicy berries, of the 
size of a small cherry. Bemarkable for its near resemblance both in flowers and foliage, to the Black tea of 
China ; its leaves are astringent and in taste resemble those of Green tea. From Jamaica : the higher mountains. 
Introduced in 1849 by Mr. N. Wilson of the Botanic Garden, Jamaica. Flowers in autumn. Boyal Botanic 
Garden, Kew. 
Allium acuminatum, Hooker. Acuminate-petalled Allium (Paxt. FI. Gard ., i., t. 25).— Nat. Ord., Liliacese 
§ Scilleae.—A handsome, hardy, or half-hardy bulbous plant. Its stems grow about a foot high, furnished at the 
base with subulate rushy leaves as long as the scapes. The flowers grow in lax umbels, not bulbiferous, and 
have stalks very much longer than the spathe ; the sepals and petals are erect, the three latter much smaller than 
the three former; they are recurved at the apex, which is sharp-pointed and richly-stained with crimson, while 
the lower half is colourless and semi-transparent. From California. Introduced in 1847, by Mr. Hartweg. 
Flowers in spring. Horticultural Society of London. 
Polygonum cuspidatum, Siebold and Zuccarini. Cuspidate Polygonum {Ann. de Gand., v. 461).—Nat. Ord., 
Polygonacege § Polygoneee.—A hardy perennial herbaceous plant, with a creeping rhizome, and tall straight 
branching flexible stems, which are hollow and spotted with purple, and bear stalked, subcordate, broadly-oval 
cuspidate leaves, and axillary divaricately-branched panicles of small green flowers. Said to be handsome, from 
its massive leafy habit. From China. Introduced “ a quarter of a century” since, and but recently recognized. 
Flowers in summer. Horticultural Society of London. 
Cyclamen macropus, Zuccarini. Large-rooted Sowbread {La Belg. Sort., i. 8).—Nat. Ord., Primulacece 
§ Primulese.—A greenhouse perennial, with very large many-crowned fleshy roots as large “ as an infant’s head.” 
The leaves are broad, cordate-oval, subangular, unequally crenate, veined and zoned with white. The flowers 
