Identifier: journalofhorticu05hort (find matches)
Title: The journal of the Horticultural Society of London
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Horticultural Society of London Horticultural Society of London. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London
Subjects: Gardening Botany Horticulture Fruit-culture
Publisher: London : Published for the Society, by Longman and Co
Contributing Library: Harvard Botany Libraries
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atment as the old A. coccinea, and easily increased bythe small scaly rhizomes. It grows about 8 or 10 inches inheight, and flowers from June to August. It is very handsome. 25. Parsonsia heterophylla. Allan Cunningham, in An-nals of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 46. (P. albiflora, Raoul.) Raised in 1847 from New Zealand seeds, presented byJ. R. Gowen, Esq. A twining evergreen greenhouse plant, flowering abundantly inMay and June. Stem covered with fine down, pale yellow ; leavesleathery, dull green, slightly downy, wavy, very variable inform ; linear, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, obovate, or even spa-thulate, often repand, varying in length from 2 to 3 or 4 inches.These singular diversities in the form of the leaves do not seem tobe confined to any particular parts of the plant, but appear on anyof the branches, and all intermingled ; the short spathulate leavesare, however, most usual on short lateral shoots. Flowers palecream-colour, in close one-sided naked panicles, rather sweet-
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196 NEW PLANTS, ETC. scented. Calyx three times as short as the corolla. Corollaurceolate, with a revolute 5-cleft border, not more than a quarteras long as the tube. Anthers without any tails, but simplysagittate. According to Cunningham, this plant is common in the north-ern island of New Zealand, at Hokianga and Wangaroa, in shadywoods. M. Raoul, whose P. albiflora can scarcely be different,found it on the outskirts of woods at Akaroa. It is rather a niceaddition to our greenhouse climbers, and will probably provehardy in the south of England. For purposes of cultivation itis much superior to P. variabilis. 26. Parsonsia variabilis.* Received from J. R. Gowen, Esq., from New Zealand, in1847. A small twining greenhouse plant, very much like P. hetero-phylla, from which it differs in its leaves being shining and muchmore variable in form, the linear ones being far narrower, andoften expanded at the very end into a circular blade. Theflowers are not more than half the size, and instea

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