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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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3-parted. The corolla forms a tube, much longerthan the calyx, and has a flat 3-lobed limb, with ovate divisions.The stamens bear a tuft of jointed hairs in the middle, andprotrude beyond the tube of the corolla; the anthers are trans-versely linear, or almost crescent-shaped, with a small cell oneach horn. The ovules are 2 in each cell, ascending, and oneplaced above the other. When the young fruit begins to swell,it turns itself stiffly downwards by a bend of the stalk, loses oneof its cells, and becomes 2-celled and 2-seeded. 14. Galphimia gjlauca. Cavanilles, Icones, vol. v. p. 61, t. 489. Sent from Mexico by Mr. Hartweg in 1837. A beautiful shrub, easily kept in the form of a bush. Theleaves are a deep bluish green, ovate, obtuse, glaucous on the * C. vittata; procumbens, raniosa, pilosa, foliis oblongis discoloribusviridigriseo vittatis vaginis ore fimbriatis, floribus intra spatham duplicemhinc foliaceam illinc cvmbiformem recurvain aggregates. - J- L. L 2 140 NEW PLANTS, ETC.,
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(Galphimia glauca. ) FROM THE SOCIETYS GARDEN. 141 underside, and furnished with a pair of glands on the edge nearthe base. The flowers, which are golden yellow, appear in closeterminal racemes, between 3 and 4 inches long in strong plants.Each has five distinct petals, with almost exactly the form of atrowel. This slender stove plant grows freely in a mixture of loamand sandy peat, and is easily increased by cuttings of the half-ripened young shoots. It requires to be kept rather dry for afew months, and afterwards, during the growing season, to befreely supplied with moisture both to the roots and in the atmos-phere. It is a very desirable species, as it flowers during the latterpart of the autumn. Sept. 10, 1848. 15. Ternstromia sylvatioa. Chamisso and Schlechteu-dahl, in Linncea. vol. v. p. 220. Raised from seeds brought home by Mr. Hartweg, probablyfrom Mexico. A small evergreen shrub, not unlike a Sweet Bay, but morespreading. Leaves narrow, oblong, bluntly acuminate, deepgreen

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