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60. COLUMNEA Sehiedeana. Schlecht. in Linnea, 8. 249. 
A specimen of what is supposed to be this plant was ex- 
hibited by Mr. Rogers at the last meeting of the Horticul- 
tural Society in Regent Street. It had been received from 
Mexico, and bore numerous long yellow and brown flowers 
all along its stems, which root at the joints, and appear to 
have thus a power of attaching themselves to other plants 
like Ivy. It has handsome deep green leaves, stained with 
crimson underneath, and is altogether a very showy plant. 
It probably requires the temperature of the stove when grow- 
ing: but may possibly succeed in a cooler situation. It will 
multiply easily, and may therefore be expected to become 
common very soon. 
61. ACACIA urophylia ; glabra, spinis stipularibus subulatis, phyllodiis pe- 
tiolatis lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis subfalcatis valde obliquis longe 
acuminatis ineequaliter 2-3-nervis margine subsinuatis et hinc ad apicem 
petioli glandulam scutelliformea ferentibus, florum capitulis globosis 
paucifloris pedunculatis solitariis v. in racemo laxo apice foliato disposi- 
tis, floribus tetrameris. Bentham mss. 
Very readily distinguished from all other capitate phyllo- 
dineous Acacias with stipulary spines by the size of the leaves, 
which are from three to six inches long, including a long fine 
tapering poiut. The peduncles are short, and the flowers in 
each head but few, and not conspicuous; but the foliage is 
elegant, and the flowers very fragrant. Raised from Swan 
River seeds by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. of Exeter. 
KOORDISTAN OAKS. 
I hasten to correct an error in which I inadvertently fell 
in speaking of the oaks of Koordistan, ina late volume of the 
Register. ‘The following extract from a letter from Mr. Brant, 
dated July 15, 1840, will shew that the curious discoveries 
which I had attributed to that gentleman, belong in fact to 
another traveller. 
“The specimens of plants were not procured nor dried 
by me, but by my medical attendant, Dr. Edward Dalzell 
Dickson, now settled at Constantinople, and I have to request 
that if any new species has been discovered, and any new 
name is to be given, that the plant bear the name of him 
who was the real discoverer, and not of one who had no other 
merit, than having forwarded the plants to England.” 
