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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. 



Ico7ies plant arum 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 public 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, Sf Otto Ic. 



210. PtJYA Alteyisfeinii. 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 nrotrude 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 



