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allied to this, and it is certain that among the distributed 
specimens of that plant are branches of the present species 
without flowers. 
Icones plantarum rariorum horti regii Botanici Berolinensis. By H. F. Link, 
Fr. Klotzsch, and Fr. Otto. Part I. 
This is a work in all respects worthy of the present state 
both of Botanical science and Pictorial art. It is intended 
to be a periodical record of the new plants that flower in the 
Royal Botanical Garden of Berlin, and will appear in numbers 
of the small quarto size, each of which contains two sheets of 
letter-press and six coloured plates. The plan of the work 
is that of the Botanical Register and Magazine, and it is to 
be hoped that it will meet from the publie with the same 
favourable reception as has attended those successful publi- 
cations. The names of the authors, among the highest in 
Botanical and Horticultural science, are an ample guarantee 
of the manner in which the work will be conducted ; and the 
richness of the Berlin garden in new plants, render it of no 
small importance to the public that the species which are 
collected there should be made known as quickly as they 
appear. I may therefore be permitted to express a hope that 
this publication will find many subscribers among the wealthy 
Botanists and Horticulturists of this country. In the mean- 
while the contents of each number of the work will be briefly 
given here, as fast as they appear, but under distinct num- 
bers, so as to be of ready reference. The work will be quoted 
as Link, Klotzsch, $ Otto Ic. 
210. PUYA Altensteinii. Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, ic. t. 1. 
A most beautiful plant, with the habit of Tillandsia, long 
green unarmed leaves, and oval heads of rich scarlet bracts, 
from among which protrude long snow-white flowers. It was 
found by Moritz in the year 1836, in his journey through 
Columbia and to the Cordilleras, between La Guayra and 
Caraccas. It requires the stove, of which it is a splendid 
ornament. 
211. LOBELIA discolor. Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, ic. t. 2. 
A neat greenhouse herbaceous plant, with deeply lobed 
heart-shaped leaves spreading flat upon the ground, and erect 
panicles of small blue flowers. It was found by Mr. Charles 
