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the leaves fall in great numbers, the flowers come smaller, and 
the colour is paler. I have tried it in the open ground where it 
grows vigorously and blooms well. Some suppose this a shy 
bloomer, but I think that the contrary is the fact, as I have 
had seven in bloom this summer, most of which were from dif¬ 
ferent places. Should this paper be worth your attention, you 
are most welcome to it, as I hope, although I cannot enhance 
the value of this species of Fuchsia, I may communicate to others, 
less fortunate, the course I have pursued, and which has suc¬ 
ceeded so well. 
J. R. Judge. 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Monadelphia Decandria — Leguminosce . 
Brownea Coccinea. A fine stove plant, the stem erect, at¬ 
taining a height of ten feet; the branches pendulous, as also the 
foliage, which is large and ample, of a fine bright green; the 
flowers fascicled, of a brilliant vermilion rose colour, about an 
inch and a half in length ; the flower-bud and calyx are likewise 
of the same uniform colour. The stamens, inserted with the petal 
of the same colour, and being about twice the length, hang be¬ 
low the flower, and when tipped with the orange yellow pollen, 
give the whole a fine appearance. The plant seems to be diffi¬ 
cult to flower, as it was introduced so far back as 1793 by 
Admiral Blyth, from Jamaica, and no instance is recorded of 
its flowering till February last, when it bloomed in the Botanic 
Garden of Edinburgh.— Bot, Mag . 
Polyandria Polygynia— Magnoliacece. 
Illicium Religxosum. This is the sacred aniseed tree of the 
Japanese, who have a custom of strewing wreaths and branches 
of it on the graves of their friends; their priests also burn the 
bark as an incense on the altars of their deities ; and their public 
watchmen make a singular use of the pulverized bark by burn¬ 
ing it in hollow tubes, as a means of measuring time,—when the 
fire, by burning, gradually reaches a certain mark, they strike a 
bell, and so announce it to the public. It was lately introduced 
