

FOREIGN NOTICES. 



"We understand that the plant wa3 sent home by Francis Maltby, Esq., of the H.E.I.C. Civil 

 Service. Our drawing having beon taken from an inferior specimen, by no means represents all 

 the character and beauty of tlie species. One drawing, receive-d from Mr. Maltby since this figure 

 was made, represents tiie bunches of flowers and buds from fifteen to eighteen inches long, and 

 another with the upper or first flowers 

 dropped, and a large cluster suspended 

 at the end of a flower-stalk of about the 

 same length. It is added that, before 

 the plant i^ out of bloom, the pendulous 

 flower-stalks are from two to two and a 

 half feet long. 



" Whatever may be thought of the so- 

 called species, which Professor Nkes von 

 Ebenbeck has separated from the origi- 

 nal Uexacenlris coccinea. Dr. Wallich's 

 Thunbergia coacinea, nobody will ques- 

 tion the entire novelty of the plant be- 

 fore us, whose small not leafy bracts, 

 large corollas and shaggy not smooth 

 anthers, indicate a totally diS'erent or- 

 ganization. 



"Tlie genus Hezacentris, wliich sig- 

 nifies six spurs, is named in allusion to 

 two of its stamens, having one spur each 

 proceeding from the base of the anthers, 

 while the other two have each two 



spurs." 



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Acacia marginata. R. Brown. {Alias 

 A. trigona Alph. Be Candolla.) A hand- 

 some greoB-house shrub, with dark greea 

 leaves, and bright yellow blossoms ap- 

 pearing in April. Native of King 

 George's Sound. 



This is known in Gardens as A. cel- 

 axtrifolia major, under wliich name the 

 plant frfim which our drawing was made 

 was exhibited by Mi'ssrs. Henderson & 

 C-o., of Pine Apple Place. Its. long nar- 

 row ctu'ved })hyllode8 (leaves), shorter 

 spikes, and downy ovary, amply dis- 

 tinguish it from tint species. To A. 

 myrtifolia it approaches much more 

 nearly, as Mr. Bentuam has remarked ; 

 it seems indeed to be distinguisliable 

 only by its longer and more falcate leaves and more downy ovary. As to the A. marginata 

 of gardens, we believe it is more frequently A. celastrifolia itself than anything else. 



ACACIA MARGINATA. 



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