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PI. 2531. Crinum areiiarium /i. Coast of Australia, and isles adjacent. — 

 Pergularia sanguinolenta " foliis ovato-lanceolatis glaberrimis petiolatis, 

 cymis multifloris folio brevioribus, corollas iaciniis acuminatis obtusis, succo 

 sanguineo." — Hamelia patens. — Cyrlant/itis striatus. Paliuriis virgatus, Don 

 Prudr. Ft. Kejml. — Clerodcndrum mucro-phyllum " foliis lato-ovatis acumi- 

 natis serratis subsessilibus subtiis tonientosis, floribus paniculatis, calycibus 

 5-dentatis, coroUis labiatis." 



PI. 2537. Zephyranthes rosea. Mr. Herbert corrects his generic character 

 given in the Botanical Register, stating that the flowers are suberect, but 

 not vertical, as there stated. — Pancratium Zeylamcum : this genus is here 

 limited to the true congeners of marit'imum, on which it was founded, in 

 Europe, Asia, and Africa. Some animadversions are also made on the editor of 

 the Botanical Register, who has not adopted the genera Carpodetes, Lepe- 

 riza, and Stenomesson proposed in the Appendix of Bot. Mag., but com- 

 prehended them in a new genus, Chryiophiala, under which name he has 

 \g\xvG.AJlavu.m{Pancralium oi^mz and Pavonj, — Gloriosa virescens "foliis 

 cirrhiferis, pedunculis pendulis, petalis unguiculatis apice undulatis." The 

 plant described by Lamarck as a doubtful variety of G. siiperba is said to 

 answer very well to this subject, which is from Mosambique, the other from 

 Senega\.— Goodyerapubescens /3. minor. It differs from a. in size only, ex- 

 cept that the leaves are less oblong, and with more obscure markings. — 

 Lavatera hispida. — Phlomis lunarij'olia ji. M. Lagasca considers this as a 

 distinct species, and proposes to name it after Dr. Russell, who has figured 

 it in his history of Aleppo.— Caladium bicolor ; given here by mistake, having 

 already been figured in this work under its former name. Arum, irom which 

 genus it has been separated by Ventenat. — Malva ahutiloldes. 



PI. 2545. Arislolorhia tabinsa. — Solidago lanceolata, now first figured from 

 a plant compared with the specimens in the Banksian herbarium.— 5o/an?(»« 

 pyracanthuin (i. Duval, in his Monograph, remarks that the peduncles and 

 calyxes are sometimes very thorny, and sometimes are quite without thorns: 

 in this figure these parts are unarmed. — Scutellaria altissima: stated to be 

 rather a biennial than a perennial by Mr. Denson, curator of the botanic 

 garden at Bury St. Edmond's, whence the specimen was received.— .Ber- 

 bcrjs aristala : "Although we wish that DeCandolle had been contented 

 with the name of Cliitrii, given to this species by its discoverer Dr. Hamil- 

 ton (late Buchanan); yet as that name had not then been published, the 

 learned Professor was at liberty to ai)|)ly one that seemed to him more a|)- 

 propriate, and aristala being the first published name ought to have been 

 adopted by succeeding writers ; we hope, therefore, that we shall lessen 

 rather than increase confusion by preferring it ; especially as the Systema 

 Naturalis Regni Vcgetabilis is a work that cannot fail to he found in the 

 hands of every botanist, and to be considered of the first authority. Of 

 this inestimable work only 2 vohnnes have as yet appeared, and it is at pre- 

 sent suspended, to give way to the Prodronms, the nature of which allows 

 of its being carried on with greater rapidity. And if it happen that the 



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