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perhaps be found expedient to unite, as varieties of one species, the above, 

 with fulgidum, rutilum, crocatum, and pulvendentum. Mules of this 

 genus are abundant, there being now 35 hybrid crosses in the Spofforth 

 collection, the pollen of all of which appears to be fertile. — Dorstenia art- 

 folia. — Vernonia flexuosa, " caule stricto superne dichotomy : ramis flex- 

 uosis, floribus ad dichotomias et flexuras ramulorum sessilibus;" raised 

 from seed sent from Brazil. — Angelonia salicariarfolia, Nat. Ord. Scrophu- 

 laria, from the Caraccas.— Coix Lachryma. — Entclea arborescens, disco- 

 vered in New Zealand by Sir J. Banks and Dr. Solander, and flowered for 

 the first time probably in Europe, in 1823, in the stove of Messrs. Whitley, 

 Brame, and Milne. It is placed by Mr. Brown in his natural order of 

 TUiacece next to Sparmannia. 



The Botanical Register. Nos. 108, 109, 110. 



PI. 771. Carina limbata, " corollae limbi interioris labio superiore tri- 

 partite ; laciniis emarginatis crenatis ; unguibus longis : labio inferiore bi- 

 fido declinato." The character intended for his own work is acknowledged 

 as having been liberally communicated by Mr. Roscoe, " a writer deeply 

 versed in the study of this natural family, and whose pen has been more 

 than once and still is employed in its illustration." — Canna occidentalis, 

 " corollae limbi interioris labio superiore bapartito, laciniis integris ovatis 

 insequalibus: labio inferiore declinato (vel rectius revoluto ?")— Canna lutea. 

 " We have been prompted," say the editors, " to insert in the present 

 fasciculus five figures from the samples of as many species of Canna, in the 

 hope that they might serve for exemplifications of their textuary counter- 

 parts in the forthcoming work on a portion of the Monandrous class by 

 Mr. Roscoe. We ought to have awaited the appearance of that perform- 

 ance, if we had intended their complete and most authentic history." — 

 Hedychium gardnerianum, a new species from Nepal : for a fuller account 

 than has been given of this increasing genus, we also look to Mr. Roscoe's 

 anxiously expected work on the Scitamineae. — Canna edulis, from Peru ; 

 the indica of Ruiz and Pavon. — Canna irtdica. " We have not," say the 

 editors, " ventured to supply any of the new names and remodelled cha- 

 racters of the Enumeratio of Willdenow, and acknowledge that to us at 

 least these riddles are insoluble." — Alpinia tubulata, " foliis alterne bifariis 

 remotissimis ; scapo vaginato laterali ; bracteis communibus divaricatis 

 aridis acuminatis persistentibus ; corolla tubulosa ; labello incluso j anthera 

 sessili." — This number, which concludes the ninth volume, contains de- 

 scriptions of Iponvca lubcrosa and Galega grandiflora, which had been 

 omitted; a Review of the genus Jasminum, together with a general Index, 

 and references to enumerations of Liliaceous genera in the several volumes 

 of the work. 



PI. 778. Chrysiphiala Jlava, a Pancratium of Ruiz and Pavon, from which 

 genus this is separated ; and the four species which constitute its basis have 

 furnished Mr. Herbert with four of his new genera of Amaryllidece ; but 

 the editor says, " Mr. Herbert's distinctions are too fine for our sight." 

 Clnytia ericoides. — Plumeria rubra. — Grindelia angustifolia, from Mexico. 

 — Ixora crocata, given upon the judgement of Mr. Sweet as a species distinct 

 from coccinea. — Epidendrum cuspidatum and ciliare, two plants which have 

 been often confounded. 



PI. 785. Loasa acanthifolia, raised by the Horticultural Society from 

 seeds from Chili. — Maranta bicolor, from the Brazils. — Banksia atistralii. — 

 Cypripediitm veni<stum,the firstaccession from theEast Indies to this genus. — 

 Indigofera endecaphylla.— Calceolaria crenata. — Tribulus cistoides ; the genus 

 is of the natural order Zygophylkce proposed by Mr. Brown, and adopted 

 by M. Decandolle, who describes it as coming'^between Rutacea: and Oxa- 

 lidecs. We are happy to quote the following paragraph relative to this 



distinguished 



