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| In France, even at Paris, the wood ripens better. Although forming a tree (in its native country, Japan, thirty to pone 
| feet high), and bearing flowers like a Bignonia, and with a foliage and habit like Catalpa, the Paulownia belongs never- 
theless to the Scrophularia family. Dr. Siebold considers it * un des plus magnifiques ii du Japon ;" and partl 
genre, pour rendre hommage au nom de Son Altesse Impériale et Royale la Princesse héréditaire des Pays Bas.” In 
Japan the trunk of the tree attains an elevation of thirty to forty feet. Tts growth in Dr. Siebold's garden has been six 
to ten feet in one year, and in three years a diameter of four to five inches. The flowers appear in April, and are 
grouped in large compound panicles, like those of the Horse-chestnut. It appears most abundantly in the rouge 
countries of iom, flourishing in the valleys and on the sides of hills exposed to the powerful action of the sun.— 
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514. AcRoPERA CORNUTA. Klotzsch. A brown-flowered epiphyte, from Guatemala. Introduced 
by Mr. Warezewiez. Flowered with Mr. Allardt, nurseryman, Berlin. 
A. cornuta ; pseudobulbis ezespitosis ovatis, apice attenuatis bifoliatis ; foliis oblongis 3—5-costatis acuminatis, basi 
longe ا‎ leete viridibus ; racemis basilaribus pendulis sesquipedalibus e viridi-purpureis 16—20-floris ; bracteis 
lanceolatis acuminatis ; perigonii foliolis exterioribus obovatis longius apiculatis fulvis, lateralibus tortis, supremo 
patentissimo — interioribus semi peque anm brevibus; labello brevi unguieulato saccato, apice longissim 
ineurvo-co: ; gynostemio albido, intus ad purpureo-punctato ; germinibus leviter striatis pedicellisque 
In its habit pos plant much resembles A. Loddigesii, only the MUN TN racemes and flowers, are larger. 
racemes attain a length of one and a half or two feet, and the number of flowers on each raceme varies from 
sixteen to twenty-two. The "ber of the flowers, which in A. Loddigesii are vus tens inelining to green, is here 
pale yellow. The sepals are obovate, keeled at the back, and run out into a long soft horn. The bag-shaped labellum 
as the colour of yolk of egg, spotted with red on the inside, half an inch "ge and on the outside towards the point is 
pre with an ineurved horn four lines long.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., June 12, 1 
575. CoscintuM FENESTRATUM. Colebrooke. (alias Pereiria medica Lindl. ; aliùs Menispermum 
fenestratum Gara. ; Wennewelle, or Wennewelle-jette, of the Cinghalese.) A broad-leaved climbing 
shrub, with brownish-green flowers. Native of Ceylon. Belongs to Menispermads. Introduced 
at Kew. 
We have received seeds of this plant at the Royal Gardens of Kew, from Mr. Thwaites, of the Botanic Garden in 
Ceylon. There has been of late a very extensive Boa. مسوم‎ of what we here term “ false Calumba-root,” instead of the 
true Calumba-root, Jateorrhiza palmata, Miers. iel Hanbury, Esq., of Plough Court, London, in a recent volume of 
Colum t or root, that it was derived from Columbo in Ceylon, and a native of that island, At length it was 
ascertained that the men plant was a native of Mozambique, where it is known by the name of Kalumb or Kalumba 
General Maedowall then sent out our present plant to his scientific correspondents in order to ascertain whether this, 
— celebrated in the Cinghalese Pharmacoposia, was not the true Calumba-root, and for that purpose consigned 
“a large bit of the root,” sawed from the centre of a knot, to Dr. Roxburgh, that he might make experiments with 
it. Dr. Roxburgh, ina note, Fl. Indica, p. 811, at once sets the question at rest: “This is certainly not the Calwmba- 
root of our Materia eee Nevertheless there have been large importations and ready purchasers for the Ceylon 
drug into England, the real properties or virtues oes which (belonging though the plants do to the same Natural Family) 
are, to say the least, very فسوي ندا‎ It now only remains for usto give Mr. Thwaites’s remarks and ipa gne 
in his own words. “This species is eis sod near the sea-coast in Ceylon, and occurs also in the Centra 
Province. The specimens from which the mpan figure was taken were procured about twelve miles from eats: 
yin, 
The Cinghalese value this plant very highly, using a decoction of the knotty parts of the stems (not the root) as a tonic 
and anthelmintic. The wood yields an inferior yellow dye.” Some further remarks are given by Mr, Thwaites in a 
