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tural Society, in whose Journal the following account is given 
of it: “ This is a little twining plant, with shining, nearly 
smooth ternate, or biternate leaves, whose petioles twine round 
any small body with which they may come in contact. The 
leaflets are cordate-ovate, coarsely serrated, and often three-lobed. 
The flowers are small, pale green, very sweet-scented, and appear 
in threes or fours from the axils of the leaves. Their stalks are 
long and hairy, and each has a pair of small bracts below the 
middle. The sepals are uniformly six in number, of a narrowly 
oblong form, and spreading so as to form a small green star. 
Contrary to the usual structure of the genus, the stamens are 
constantly six only in number, and about half as long as the 
sepals. It is a hardy greenhouse plant, requiring a light loamy 
soil to grow in, and is easily increased by cuttings of the half- 
ripened wood. It only requires the protection of a cold pit, or 
frame, during winter, and flowers abundantly in April. It was 
first noticed by Sir Joseph Banks in 1769.”— Bot. Beg. 44-46. 
TROPiEOLE^E .—Octandria Monogynia. 
Tropceolum crenatiflorum. This is another new Peruvian Indian 
cress, introduced by Mr. Veitch, through his collector, Mr. W. 
Lobb, from Pillao and Chagula, Peru, and may be treated like 
the other well-known species of the same genus, that is, as hardy 
during the summer months. Its nearest affinity is, perhaps, 
with T. Lobbianum; but the foliage, the colour of the flowers 
(pure yellow), the edge of the petals (being notched and toothed), 
and the relative length of these petals, as compared with the spur, 
at once distinguish it.— Bot. Mag. 4245. 
EL^EOCARPEiE .—Dodecandria Monogynia . 
Friesia peduncularis. An elegant shrub, from three to six feet 
high, with something of myrtle-like habit, as seen in our gardens, 
and with copious drooping or pendent stalks. It is a native of 
Van Diemen’s Land, and requires a cool frame, or greenhouse, 
for its successful cultivation. It is not improbable that near the 
coasts of the middle and south of England this pretty plant 
may be found to brave the winter in the open air. The flowers 
are pendent and solitary on each peduncle, have a pale green 
deciduous calyx; their petals are four, broadly obovate, three- 
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