[Sidenote: Noua historia Chinensis hoc testatur.]

2. de legat, regis Chinensis, a Lodovico Frois Jesuita.

ABELIA CHINENSIS (syn A. rupestris).The Rock Abelia China, 1844.

chinensis; but they have not been found very amenable to cultivation, except in very favoured parts of the South of England and Ireland.

This species resembles C. Siliquastrum, but is of much smaller growth, and bears paler flowers; while C. CHINENSIS, which is not hardy, has large, rosy-pink flowers.

SYRINGA CHINENSIS (syns.

WISTARIA CHINENSIS (syns W. sinensis, Glycine chinensis, and G. sinensis).Chinese Wistaria.

WISTARIA CHINENSIS (syns W. sinensis, Glycine chinensis, and G. sinensis).Chinese Wistaria.

Stuartia pentagyna* Syringa chinensis* Josikaea persica* vulgaris* Vaccinium corymbosum* pennsylvanicum Viburnum acerifolium* Lantana* Lentago* nudum* plicatum* prunifolium pyrifolium* Wistaria chinensis* multijuga* Exochorda grandiflora JUNE.

Stuartia pentagyna* Syringa chinensis* Josikaea persica* vulgaris* Vaccinium corymbosum* pennsylvanicum Viburnum acerifolium* Lantana* Lentago* nudum* plicatum* prunifolium pyrifolium* Wistaria chinensis* multijuga* Exochorda grandiflora JUNE.

Abelia chinensis* Calluna vulgaris* Catalpa bignonioides Clerodendron foetidum Erica cinerea* Escallonia illinita Gordonia pubescens Hedysarum multijugum Hibiscus syriacus* Hypericum oblongifolium Leycesteria formosa*

Height varies from 1 ft. to 3 ft. Pardanthus Chinensis.

The Chinese Iris, I. chinensis, Soosun peelgoosh, in a small sized variety, but has very pretty blue and purple flowers in the beginning of the hot weather.

The Common Pink, Dianthus Chinensis, Kurunful, and the Sweet William, D: barbatus, are pretty, ornamental plants, and may be propagated and cultivated in the same way as the carnation, save that they do not require so much care, or so good a soil, any garden mould sufficing; they are also more easily produced from seed.

The IXIA, is originally from the Cape, and belongs to the class of Iridae: the Ixia Chinensis, more properly Morea Chinensis, is a native of India and China, and common in most gardens.

The IXIA, is originally from the Cape, and belongs to the class of Iridae: the Ixia Chinensis, more properly Morea Chinensis, is a native of India and China, and common in most gardens.

The Chinese Starwort, A chinensis, is of dark purple and very prolific of blossoms at all times.

Dr. Roxburgh describes the following eleven species as inhabitants of these regions: Rosa involucrata, Chinensis, semperflorens, recurva, microphylla, inermis, Rosa centiflora, glandulifera, pubescens, diffusa, triphylla, most of which, however, he represents to have been of Chinese origin.

The China blush rose, R Indica (R Chinensis of Roxburgh), Kut'h gulab, forms a pretty hedge, if carefully clipped, but is chiefly usefully as a stock for grafting on.

Striped-leaved ditto c.m. 267 - chinensis Chinese ditto c.m. 268 - orientalis Silvery-leaved ditto c.m. 269 - sibirica Siberian ditto c.m. 270 Prunus virginiana Virginian Bird-Cherry c.m.