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In consequence of the f^reat number of Botanieal 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 ray 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 %. 



^ 2. LISSANTHE stellata ; caule minute pubescenti, foliis sparsis oblongis 

 breviter petiolatis glaucis mucronatis, floribus albis axillaribus solitariis 

 breviter pedunculatis unibracteatis, limbo 5-partito apice fusco: Floral 

 Cabinet, III.^. 79. 



A native of New Holland. A small shrub, with glaucous 

 leaves, and small white flowers. 



^ 3. PASSIFLORA A^sp^c?MZa,• foliis membranaceis hispidulis trilobatis cili- 

 atis basi cordato-sinuatis subdentatis apiculatis : lobis subsequalibus 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 planicauiis (Wallich) ; caule compresso folioso erecto, foliis coria- 

 ceis aveniis obtusis emarginatisque, floribus glabris intra bracteas siccas 

 striatas subsessilibus, labeUo reniformi supra unguem bicalloso, petalis 

 linearibus sepalis ovatis acutis mult6 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 sheathing appendage 

 to the leaves, and, at the base, by the imbricated, sheathing. 



