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In consequence of the great number of Botanical periodi- 
cals now publishing, in all of which there is some, and in 
some of which there is a considerable amount of original 
matter, it is my intention to incorporate in the Miscellaneous 
portion of this work, every thing which I can find of real or 
supposed novelty, so that a reference to these pages may be in 
fact a reference to all the current Garden Botany. In the 
prosecution of this task I commence with the plants now im- 
mediately following—in which the plants not actually in- 
spected by myself are indicated by the sign $. 
Y 2. LISSANTHE stellata; caule minute pubescenti, foliis sparsis oblongis 
breviter petiolatis glaucis mucronatis, floribus albis axillaribus solitariis 
breviter pedunculatis unibracteatis, limbo 9-partito apice fusco. Floral 
Cabinet, III. p. 79. 
A native of New Holland. A small shrub, with glaucous 
leaves, and small white flowers. 
«| 3. PASSIFLORA hispidula ; foliis membranaceis hispidulis trilobatis cili- 
atis basi cordato-sinuatis subdentatis apiculatis: lobis subeegualibus ob- 
tusis apiculatis, petiolis hispidis infra medium biglandulosis, pedicellis 
geminis brevissimis 2-3-bracteatis, ovario elliptico glabro. Floral Cabi- 
net, III. 126. 
Mexico? (country not stated). Flowers small, but **ex- 
ceedingly pretty," yellowish white, with purple rays. 
4. ERIA planicaulis (Wallich) ; caule compresso folioso erecto, foliis coria- 
ceis aveniis obtusis emarginatisque, floribus glabris intra bracteas siccas 
striatas subsessilibus, labello reniformi supra unguem bicalloso, petalis 
linearibus sepalis ovatis acutis multd angustioribus. 
Upon this plant Mr. Booth has favoured me with the fol- 
lowing communication :— 
** This singular species was forwarded by Dr. Wallich from 
the Honourable East India Company’s Botanic Garden, Cal- 
cutta, in 1838, and added to Sir Charles Lemon’s collection 
at Carclew, where it flowered during the autumn of 1839. It 
has nothing to recommend it to the notice of cultivators, but 
to the Botanist it is a highly curious and interesting, subject. 
It requires the constant heat of the stove, and seems to thrive 
pretty well in a pot of finely chopped moss and decomposed. 
vegetable earth. 
“ Stem erect, fleshy and compressed, of a deep yellowish 
green, widening from the root upwards, where it forms a kind - 
of flat pseudo-bulb, partly covered by the sheathin appendage 
to the leaves, and, at the base, by the itabribstid, sheathing, 
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