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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Amaryllidace.®. — Hexandria Monogynia. 
Habranthus concolor. Zephyranths and Habranths are plants so nearly 
related to each other, that some care is necessary in distinguishing them. 
The main difference is found in the interior of the flower, where the Habranths 
have, on the outside of the stamens, a small cup, composed of a membrane, 
or of certain toothings or scales, which are deficient in the Zephyranths, or 
at least hardly discoverable. In habit the one-flowered Habranths are the 
same as the Zephyranths. 
In the present species, the cup consists of a membraneous ring, cut into 
irregular toothings or lacerations, and here and there slit down to the base. 
4 he flowers, although pale green, are very pretty, and form a lively orna¬ 
ment of the greenhouse or cold frame, in the early spring. Mr. Hartweg 
found it in pastures near the city of Leon in Mexico, whence he sent its 
bulbs to the Horticultural Society, in whose gardens it flowered in April 
last. — Bot. Reg. 54— 45. 
BerberidacEjE. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Berberis actinacantha syn. Mahonia Knightii. An evergreen bush appa¬ 
rently common in the neighbourhood of Valparaiso, whence it has been 
brought by all collectors of Chilian plants. It is not, however, a plant of 
the coast, but inhabits the first range of the Cordilleras. It derives its name 
from the broad ray-like divisions ol the spines, which, though variable, are 
often very remarkable; the leaves too vary in form from roundish ovate to 
ovate and even subcordate ; they always have a hard, dry, curled appearance, 
as if the species were accustomed to a rigorous climate; its deep yellow, 
sweet-scented flowers render it rather a conspicuous object of the smaller 
sort, and it is quite hardy. — Bot. Reg. 55 —45. 
Monimiace^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Boldoa fragrans. This is a small tree or bush with a highly aromatic 
odour in every part. It has round, grey, slightly downy branches and 
roundish ovate evergreen opposite leaves placed on short stalks, and studded 
with hard points, which give them a very rough surface. The flowers are 
dioecious, pale greenish white, in little terminal panicles, each branch of 
which is rather regularly three parted. In this country the male only is 
known. Of that sex the calyx is a leathery cup divided at the edge into an 
uncertain number of strap-shaped segments placed in two or three rows; all 
the inside of the cup is lined with stamens, whose filament bears at its base a 
pair of ear-shaped glands, terminated by a half transparent rim. In Chili 
the plant is much valued ; its wood forms a charcoal preferred by smiths to 
all others, and the aromatic fruit is eaten by the natives. With us it is a 
greenhouse shrub, which requires to be potted in sandy loam and peat in 
equal proportions, and in summer an ample supply of water is necessary, and 
shading in sunny weather, for although it be a hardy-looking shrub, its 
leaves are very apt to become scorched by the sun.— Bot. Reg. 57—45. 
SriRiEACEiE. — Icosandria Di- Pentagynia. 
Spircea Donglasii. An extremely beautiful species producing dense, com¬ 
pound, terminal racemes of rosy-lilac flowers, very numerously and upon very 
small plants. It was first discovered by the lamented and indefatigable 
Douglas in his explorations of the north-west coast of America, about the 
