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dry season the mercury has sometimes ascended as high 
as 92°, and occasionally 93°, it has not been felt so incon¬ 
veniently oppressive to Europeans as a hot summer day in 
England.”—p. 31. 
“ Though the vegetation of no country in the world is so 
luxuriant as that of the eastern islands, it has been proved 
by many writers that the soil of some of them is not so 
fertile as the appearance of the forests would lead the 
cultivator to expect. This remark particularly applies to 
Sumatra, the forests of which are supported in tbeir 
luxuriance, in a great measure, by the moisture of the 
surrounding atmosphere.”—p. 32. 
“ Thunder and lightning are so very frequent as to be 
little regarded by the inhabitants, though the former is 
more sonorous and the latter more vivid than in Europe. 
In all the quiet seas of the East the lightning is very much 
dreaded by European shipping. A heavy shower of rain is 
always preceded by lightning and thunder, and generally by 
strong wind.”—p. 31. 
“ Left early for Sebonyoh (Dec. 0).—One mountain near 
it had had all its trees destroyed about twelve months since 
by a fire, which had been ignited by the intensity of the 
sun’s rays on the rock beneath, and which had so dried the 
vegetation that it spontaneously took fire, and the whole 
were destroyed. Nothing but a succession of very wet 
summers can again restore it.”—p. 399. 
The custom of building the houses on tall posts to keep them 
out of the water sufficiently shows how formidable the floods 
must be in Borneo, and how damp such an atmosphere must be 
under a temperature of 85°.—( Dr.Lindley,in Hort. Sue. Jour.) 
MUSSiENDA MACROPHYLLA. 
Received from Messrs. Knight and Perry, 
Nurservmen, King’s Road, Chelsea, in July, 
1845. 
The branches of this plant are covered 
with coarse reddish hairs ; the leaves also 
are hairy, ovate-oblong, acute, with bifid red- 
edged reflexed stipules. The flowers grow 
in small close heads, and are hairy like the 
leaves. The divisions of the calyx are ovate- 
oblong, stunted, and red-edged, with the ex¬ 
ception of one which has a long stalk, is the 
form and size of the ordinary foliage, and 
has a chalky white colour, a little enlivened 
by a few green veins. The corolla is larger 
than the calyx, deep yellow, with roundish 
shallow lobes. 
It is a rather large stove shrub, growing 
freely in a mixture of sandy peat and loam 
in equal parts. It flowers during the sum¬ 
mer and autumn, and is easily increased by 
cuttings of the young wood in the ordinary 
way. It requires plenty of room, otherwise 
it is not ornamental .—(Horticultural Society's 
Journal.) 
HARDY HERBACEOUS PEREN¬ 
NIALS IN BLOOM. —Ipswich, June 
20th, 1857. 
Bahia lanata, 1 foot, yellow, dense bloomer. 
Hesperis matronalis, 1 foot, white and 
purple, double. 
Hesperis matronalis, 1 foot, single. 
Yittadinia lobata, 6 in., white and red, per¬ 
petual bloomer. 
Dielytra spectabilis, 2 feet, pink. 
Pseony, 1 foot, white. 
,, ,, led. 
Geum coccineum, 2 feet, scarlet, showy. 
Viola calcarata, 6 inches, blue. 
„ montana, 1 foot, blue. 
Delphinium Hendersonii, 3 feet, blue and white. 
„ formosum, 2 feet, dark blue. 
amcenum, 1 foot 6 inches, blue. 
Barlowii, 4 feet, double blue, 
grandiflora, 1 foot 0 inches, double blue. 
Chinense and others, 1 foot 6 inches. 
Lychnis viscaria splendens, bright rose, 
flos-cuculi plena, bright rose, 
coronata, flesh, 
fulgens, scarlet. 
Chalcedonica, scarlet, 
other varieties. 
Salvia rugosa, 1 foot, pink. 
Canadensis, 2 feet, purple, 
officinalis alba, 1 foot G inches, white, 
porphyrantlia, 1 foot, bright red. 
bicolor, 1 foot 6 inches, blue and white. 
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Digitalis, purple, yellow, and white. 
Tradescantia, white and purple, single. 
„ „ „ double. 
Linums, white and blue ones. 
Achillea montana, 2 feet, white. 
tomentosa, G inches, yellow, 
eupatorium, 3 feet, yellow. 
Onosma Taurica, 1 foot, yellow. 
Armeria cephalotes, 2 feet, pink. 
„ formosa, 1 foot 6 inches, pale pink. 
Ajuga reptans, 6 inches, blue. 
,, ,, „ white. 
Silene maritima, 6 inches, white. 
„ „ „ double white. 
Dianthus atro-rubens, blood red. 
csesius, 3 inches, pale rose. 
Mountain Pinks, red and white. 
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