For an opportunity of adorning our magazine with this 
splendid acquisition, we are ‘indebted to our friend AyLMER 
Bourke Lampert, Esq. in whose stove it flowered in Decem- 
ber last. It was raised from seeds under rather peculiar 
‘circumstances ; for having received in the year 1816, from 
the celebrated Don Jos. Pavon, several hundred sorts of 
seeds and fruits collected in his travels through Peru and 
Chili, Mr. Lamperr determined, notwithstanding the great 
length of time they had been collected, to try to raise such as 
he thought most likely to retain their vegetating property. 
Out of these he was fortunate in raising eighteen species, 
which are now growing in his hot-house at Boyton; amongst 
these are the Canna zrediflora and Cesalpinia Tara. Fl. 
Peruv. ined, the Poinciana spinosa of Feuillée’s Journal, 
' vol. 2. t, 39. | 
