Plate 182 . 
ERANTHEMUM TUBERCULATUM. 
We are indebted to the Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, for the 
opportunity of figuring this new and desirable plant, from 
whom we learn that it was forwarded to them by Sir Daniel 
Cooper, Bart., from New Caledonia in 1862, and was exhibited 
by them at a meeting of the Floral Committee of the Boyal 
Horticultural Society im September of last year, when it ob¬ 
tained a certificate. 
Plants are now required for so many and such various pur¬ 
poses, that anything new is likely to be of service in some form 
or other; and although the subject of our present Plate has 
no pretensions to be a showy plant, yet its extreme freeness of 
flowering, and the dwarf and shrubby character of its growth, 
make it probable that it will be a very effective plant for deco¬ 
ration, more especially if (as we suppose it not unlikely, from 
the period of the year at which it was exhibited) it be an 
autumn bloomer. In the earlier part of the season there is 
no difficulty in obtaining flowers for decorative purposes, but 
as the summer denizens of the greenhouse have finished their 
blooming, it becomes no easy matter to supply their place, and 
hence a plant like this JErantJiemum is a great acquisition, more 
especially to the owners of small greenhouses, if its cultivation 
be easy. Mr. Veitch says that as far as they can see, the tem¬ 
perature for growing it will be such as is to be had in a green¬ 
house, and it will thus be placed within the reach of most 
growers. 
As the plant has been figured in the ‘ Botanical Magazine ’ 
(t. 5405), we cannot do better (as so little is known of its 
habits, etc.) than give Sir Wm. Hooker’s botanical description 
of it. “ Apparently a small shrub , copiously branched, with op- 
