MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



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It is intended to publish monthly, under this head, 

 some account of the most rare or curious plants that may 

 from time to time be discovered or introduced, and of which 

 there is no immediate possibility of giving plates. To this 

 will be added such occasional notes upon plants already 

 figured here or elsewhere, as will serve to make them better 

 known, or to correct their history. It is expected that by 

 this plan the present work will be rendered more useful and 

 efficient than ever as a Register of information concerning 

 Horticultural Botany. It must be evident to any one at all 

 acquainted with the extent to which the introduction of new 

 plants to this country is now taking place, that no periodical, 

 the price of which will procure it a remunerating sale, can 

 at all keep pace with discovery, if its contents are limited to 

 anything like a hundred figures a year; although that num- 

 ber of plates may be amply sufficient to comprehend what 

 new plants are strikingly beautiful, or extremely curious in 

 their structure. Upon the arrangement now commenced, 

 while the latter only will find a place among the plants ac- 

 tually figured, others will not be neglected, but on the con- 

 trary will be gradually brought before the reader by means 

 of the descriptive letter-press to be given monthly, under the 

 title which stands at the head of this page. 



1. PASSIFLORA onychina. 



P. onychina ; ebracteata, foliis trilobis cordatis glabris : laciniis oblongis obtusis 

 subaequalibus obscure serrulatis, petiolis 2-3-glandulosis, pedunculis folio- 

 rum longitudine, corona margine inflexa serie intinm radiorum erecta conica 

 intus supra basin dentifera, extima duplici filiformi paten tissima, intermedia 

 subtriplici brevissima capitata ; ovario tomentoso. 



A most beautiful greenhouse climber, which blossomed in 

 the garden of Miss Traill of Hayes Place, Bromley, Kent, 

 in the beginning of last November. Its flowers are of a 



A. Jan. 1838. b 



