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It forms a small heath-like bush, about a foot high, and its 

 branches are covered with flowers resembling 6-pointed stars, 

 of the most intense and brilliant blue. 



14. CYRTOCHILUM maculatum, var. ecomutum. Bot. Mag. t. 3836. 



This does not appear to be in any respect different from 

 the common state of this pretty species. 



15. DENDROBIUM moschatum. Wallich in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 82, 



Of this noble plant there is a good figure in the Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 3887, where Sir William Hooker states his 

 opinion that the D. Calceolaria of his Exotic Flora is a mere 

 variety of it. 



16. ABUTILON striatum. Dickson in Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. no. 53. 



Of this charming plant a figure is given in the Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 3840, whence it appears that Mr. Tweedie, of 

 Buenos Ayres, is the person by whom its seeds were originally 

 sent home, and that in the year 1832 it was described by Dr. 

 Gillies, in the Botanical Miscellany, under the name of Sida 

 pieta. But as the plant is clearly an Abutilon, and as the 

 genus Abutilon is certainly distinct from Sida, there is no 

 occasion to alter the name it now universally bears in gardens. 

 Sir William Hooker suggests that in all probability it will 

 succeed in the open air, especially during the summer months. 

 We fear, however, its foliage and flowers are both too tender 

 to preserve their beauty if exposed to a low temperature, or 

 if beaten by wind and cold rain. 



17. ARMERIA fasciculate. Willd. enmn. Hort. berol. 1. p. 334. 



A handsome shrubby " thrift," forming a pretty bush, 

 with long stiff leaves like those of a pine, is not uncommon 

 in the gardens near London, under the name of Armeria 

 scabra, and with the reputation of a Cape plant. This spe- 

 cies is really a native of Corsica, near Ajaccio, and of Por- 

 tugal, and is the Stat ice lusitanica fruticosa maritima mag no 

 fiore of Tourneforts Institutions. It is worth cultivation, 

 especially as a rock plant, but it needs protection in the winter 

 near London. It will soon be figured here. 



