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ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON BOTANY. 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine, No. 44 1. 

 PI. 2433, Phaylopsis longifolia, " caulibus erectis, foliis 

 oblongo-ovatis aciuuinatis reflexis, spicis axillaribus brevibus 

 laxiusculis, lacinia calycis dorsali corolla longiore." The genus 

 vEtheilema, separated from Ruellia by Mr. Brown in his Pro- 

 dromus, he has since found to be the same with Willdenow's 

 Phaylopsis. This plant was raised by the Horticultural So- 

 ciety from seed from Sierra Leone. Prostanthera lasianthos, 

 a New Holland plant : Mr. Brown has recorded 1 3 species 

 of this genus. Iris neglecta. Salvia nutans. Polygala amara. 

 This species and vulgaris are often mistaken for each other, 

 from their variableness, and the difficulty of finding good di- 

 stinguishing characters : the taste, however, will at once decide, 

 the vulgaris being slightly acrid without bitterness, whilst the 

 amara is intensely bitter. Polygala cordifolia, the fruticosa of 

 Bergius : — Cape of Good Hope. Protcsa Icevis, from the moun- 

 tains at the Cape of Good Hope. This is the same plant which 

 Mr. Salisbury gave in the Paradisus Lo?idine?isis as longifolia, 

 " a name already occupied by a very different species, of which 

 there are three varieties figured in the Botanist's Repository." 

 Rauvoolfia terni/olia. Collected in South America by Hum- 

 boldt and Bonpland, and described but not figured by them. 



The Botanical Register. No. 104. 

 Descriptions of Plates 725 — 739 given in preceding numbers : 

 Schizanthus pinnatus, now first drawn from the living plant ; 

 the figure of Ruiz and Pavon, who established the genus Fl. 

 Peruv., being from a dried specimen. Astelma fndicans, the 

 Gnaphalium fruticans of Hort. Kewensis. Oncidium luridwn, 

 " foliis eUipticis acutis, scapo stricto ramoso, perianthii laciniis 

 patentibus undulatis retusis subaequalibus, labello renifoi'mi, 

 columnae alls i-otundatis." An unrecorded species fi-om South 

 America. Daviesia alata. Smith Linn. Trans, ix. A very rare 

 plant. Berberis Chitria, the aristata of DecandoUe, Syst. Veg. 

 Under this head we find some animadversions on the work 

 of the Genevan professor in a spirit of asperity and of exulta- 

 tion at the presumed failure of his undertaking (too great, no 

 doubt, for any man to hope to accomplish), which we wish had 

 been spared, and which may perhaps call for some observations 

 at a future time. Brexia madagascariensis, a species not de- 

 scribed in any general system of vegetables. Alstrccmeria Flos 

 Martini, pulchra of Bot. Mag. See p. 224 of our last Number. 

 " The drawing was taken at the garden of the Horticultural 

 Societv, enriched, extended, and arranged under the able di- 

 rection 



