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horrifying imaginary incident : this most valuable specimen 

 was presented to the Royal Gardens, along with many other 

 oriental rarities, by the Hon. the Directors of the East India 

 Company. The Tanghin, or Poison Tree of Madagascar 

 (Tanghinia veneniflua), rendered infinitely more extensively 

 baleful than Upas by the execrable laws of the Malagassy 

 kingdom (for a colored representation of this tree, and many 

 particulars of its use in the native ordeal, as communicated 

 by the Missionaries, see the Botanical Magazine, Tab. 2968; 

 and Botanical Miscellany, v. 3, p. 275—291, Tab. 110). In 

 this same house, are Coffee and Chocolate shrubs, Black 

 Pepper, the Teak of India, the Cow- Tree or Palo de Vaca 

 of the Caraccas, Galactodendron utile, (described and figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine, Tab. 2723 and 2724), and a 

 multitude of other rare fruticose plants. The Telfairia 

 pedata (Botanical Magazine, Tab. 2751, 2), with its curiously 

 fringed flowers, would fill the building with the lengthened 

 branches which it throws out, if permitted to do so : the Gre- 

 nadilla {Passiflora edulis, Botanical Magazine, Tab. 1989) ; 

 the beautiful Gardenia S her bournice,— these climbers, together 

 with the Passiflora alata, Allamanda cathartica, Echites 

 hirsuta, Poivrcea coccinea and Roxburghii, Petrcea volubilis, 

 Beaumontia grandiflora, and Ipomcea Horsfallice, twine round 

 the pillars. 



It may be remembered by former visitors to the garden, 

 that, m the old state of this stove, there was a gate of entrance 

 at its west end, opening from the Arboretum into the Botanic 

 garden, and that from this point, a wall went off (where a 

 lcrebinth-Tree, and a large Salisburia now stand) to the 

 back of the "old stove," and from the West termination of 

 that again in the direction of the old Orangery : this wall 

 formed the boundary (now pulled down) between the Arbo- 

 retum and the herbaceous ground. 



" No. 3. A Stove, sixty feet long, with two small tanks, 

 tor water-plants, occupied by a miscellaneous assemblage of 

 stove plants." This remains still in the same condition as 

 when the Report was prepared ; and it is interesting, during 

 the short time it will be permitted so to stand, to compare 

 the state of its inmates, as to growth and vigour, with those 

 in the building just left, (No. 2,) where the improvements in 

 hothouse cultivation have been adopted. It is, however, in- 

 tended, during the present year, 1845, to make a span-house 

 ol this, to carry it out to the length of ninety feet, joining it 



