Dr. Blume and now before us, not being even a member of the genus, but having been separated bv 
(Mi 
It is 
firm 
down 
lificant tiling, not worth cultivation. This, on the contrary, is 
plants in India. Its massive leaves are nearly a foot long, and 4 or 5 : 
texture, and of the richest green. From the ends of the branches hang 
inches long, of rich glossy rose-coloured flowers, with purple petals aL ^ c umuy-nooea orac 
the richest and clearest pink. Of the effect thus produced, the accompanying figure gives a coi 
and in no degree exaggerated, illustration j it however only shows the lower part of a panicle 
tnat the page can be made to contain. 
a poor 
•all 
botanists ; and vet we must 
form 
J . f . v»«w«m» Lnav u iuis. uone so, ior no trace ot it appears among the five 
or six-and-tweiity species they have published. It certainly belongs to the section to which Blume 
gives the name of Sarcoplacuntia , w«U characterised by a short truncate calyx and fleshy placenta; 
m fac is very nearly allied to the Showy Medinill (if. sjpeciosa) itself. That such a plant as this 
should have remained unnoticed in an island so much explored as Java, is one of the best illustrations 
that could be produced of the inexhaustible richness of vegetation in the Malay forests. 
IVlir*-*- 4.1, „ 4- . _li« i* ».%*..•..._- 
AVIiat the true 
A r xr.., — AAVVlllim ° 11UIUU w, can lvaraij oe said to Have been ascertained. 
Messrs. Veitch we believe, have treated it as a hardy stove or warm green-house plant. According 
to JJr. J3Iume the snooips nrp rnnc+iTr w ^^4.«,- -.— * /« , . , r __ r . ?. 
mountain 
places Me astomads generally in such places. Speaking of the forests above 3000 feet in 
elevation above the sea, the latter author says : 
the lofty branches, and th° **— * ~ J - 1 --- * - 1 
upon their slender stems. 
igul 
Fern 
laurels which here predomi 
j larticularly 
laurels, as well as in ifcs ; these, 
Myrtaceous plants, with a very large Gardenia, perpetually 
mvi»r PTOf ,u ^ T- r ~v*"" wua l )mms > witn a very large Gardenia, perpetually m flower 
E lodod ? ^r r^t SP ° tS * ^ m0Untains 0f Ma > associated with tall Melasmas 
Miododciidrons, Maenohas fi li'n« +l,o ™ ™-o. a . , . - , . , 
Magnolias filling the air with their fragrant perfum 
Inform I'vprl m^i, +i n ti nagrant perrume, ana several sorts oi ua*. 
of vp»«*»M„ n T mountains becomes narrower and can no longer retain a coverin 
7000 W 11 T!i ' ™ beC ° meS m0re rarefied and colder > ^ an elevation of more than 
vril V! the a ^rmce of the forest trees changes."-^*' ^ of the Horticultural Society, 
vol. ir. p. 2:32.) 
of I lie Horticultural 
will 
infer 
