The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . 9. 23. Arbutus xalapensis. Humboldt, Bo?ipla?id) and Kunth,Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant., iii. 281. Bentham, Plant. Hartweg.,No. 485. Eaised from Mexican seed, received from Hartweg inFebruary, 1846, from the mountain of Anganguco. A low, dull brownish green evergreen bush. Branches,petioles, and underside of leaves covered with a short soft down,without any trace of setae. Leaves oblong, flat, long-stalked,rounded at the base, perfectly entire, or very slightly serrate,with a hard, firm, reddish edge; somewhat downy on the upperside. Flowers dirt
The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . 9. 23. Arbutus xalapensis. Humboldt, Bo?ipla?id) and Kunth,Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant., iii. 281. Bentham, Plant. Hartweg.,No. 485. Eaised from Mexican seed, received from Hartweg inFebruary, 1846, from the mountain of Anganguco. A low, dull brownish green evergreen bush. Branches,petioles, and underside of leaves covered with a short soft down,without any trace of setae. Leaves oblong, flat, long-stalked,rounded at the base, perfectly entire, or very slightly serrate,with a hard, firm, reddish edge; somewhat downy on the upperside. Flowers dirty reddish-white, in close downy terminalshort pyramidal panicles. Peduncles glandular and nearly smooth. Corolla ovate, at the base almost flat andunequally gibbous, with a contraction below the middle, and avery small limb. Ovary with a granular surface. This little bush is by no means ornamental. It grows slowly,requires protection in winter, has dull spotted leaves, and re-mains in flower only for a week or two in April. Although 24. Achimenes Ghiesbkeghtii of the Gardens. Presented to the Society by Mr. Andrew Henderson, of theWellington Nursery, St. Johns Wood Road, in 1849. Stems erect, deep purple brown, with a few scattered opposite, stalked, oblong-lanceolate, rugose, convex,coarsely serrated, not unlike those of the larger solitary, axillary, with a slender hairy peduncle, twiceas long as the leafstalks. Calyx smooth, equally 5-parted. VOL. V. P 194 NEW PLANTS, ETC., Corolla defiexed, nearly cylindrical, gibbous at the base on theupper side, ljt inch long, bright scarlet, with an oblique regularlimb, and a circular throat. Disk, a lobed fleshy ring. Stigmalarge, two-lobed, very hairy.
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