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GO. COLUMNEA Schiedeana. Schlecht. in Linnaea, 8. 249. 



A specimen of what is supposed to be this plant was ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Rogers at the last meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society in Regent Street. It had been received from 

 Mexico, and bore numerous long yellow and brown flowers 

 all along its stems, which root at the joints, and appear to 

 have thus a power of attaching themselves to other plants 

 like Ivy. It has handsome deep green leaves, stained with 

 crimson underneath, and is altogether a very showy plant. 

 It probably requires the temperature of the stove when grow- 

 ing : but may possibly succeed in a cooler situation. It will 

 multiply easily, and may therefore be expected to become 

 common very soon. 



61. ACACIA urophylla ; glabra, spinis stipularibus subulatis, pbyllodiis pe- 

 tiolatis lauceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis subfalcatis valde obliquis longe 

 acuminatis insequaliter 2-3-nervis margine subsiuuatis ethinc ad apicem 

 petioli glandulam scutelliformea ferentibus, florum capitulis globosis 

 paucifloris pedmiculatis solitariis v. in racerno laxo apice foliato disposi- 

 tis, floribus tetrameris. Bentham mss. 



Very readily distinguished from all other capitate phyllo- 

 dineous Acacias with stipulary spines by the size of the leaves, 

 which are from three to six inches long, including a long fine 

 tapering point. The peduncles are short, and the flowers in 

 each head but few, and not conspicuous ; but the foliage is 

 elegant, and the flowers very fragrant. Raised from Swan 

 River seeds by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. of Exeter. 



KOORDISTAN OAKS. 



I hasten to correct an error in which I inadvertently fell 

 in speaking of the oaks of Koordistan, in a late volume of the 

 Register. The following extract from a letter from Mr. Brant, 

 dated July 15, 1840, will shew that the curious discoveries 

 which I had attributed to that gentleman, belong in fact to 

 another traveller. 



" The specimens of plants were not procured nor dried 

 by me, but by my medical attendant, Dr. Edward Dalzell 

 Dickson, now settled at Constantinople, and I have to request 

 that if any new species has been discovered, and any new 

 name is to be given, that the plant bear the name of him 

 who was the real discoverer, and not of one who had no other 

 merit, than having forwarded the plants to England. " 



