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irritability of the plant. Such change takes place more rapidly when 

 the temperature is elevated, than when it is low. The return of the 

 sun's influence readily restores the plant to its irritable state. It 

 appears, therefore, that it is by the action of light, that the vital pro- 

 .perties of vegetables are supported, as it is by the action of oxygen 

 that those of animals are preserved, consequently, etiolation is to the 

 former what asphyxia is to the latter. 



PART II. 

 MISCELLANY 



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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



Neio or Rare Plants. 



\cantiiophippum javan.cum. The Javanese. (Bot. Reg. 47.) Orchidacea?. 

 Gvnandria Monandria. Discovered in the woods of Mount Salak in Java and 

 has bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are pale yellow 

 with a tin<re of brown, streaked lines of purple, and the five parted mouth a clear 

 lilac with a blotch of yellow in each. The lip is three lobed. Each flower is 

 bellying, and about an inch and a half long. Singular and pretty. The follow- 

 toe are i the species hitherto known, viz. :-A. Javamcum, A. striatum ■ flowers 

 French white striped with duller colour. A. Sythetense ; flowers white, scent- 

 less. A. bicolor; flowers yellow with crimson and purple tips. 



JEschynanthus boschianus. Vanden Bosch's. (Pax Mag. Bot.) Gesne- 

 racea> Didynamia Angiospermia. An evergreen Epiphyte, from Java, which 

 blooms freely in a stove or greenhouse. The flowers are produced in axillary 

 liters. Each blossom tubular, nearly three inches long. The calyx is a nch 

 purpliBh and brown colour an inch long, and the corolla of a very rich deep 

 lea let, with yellow streaks inside the mouth. It blooms throughout spring and 

 It is in the collection of R. G. Loraine, Esq., and some of the London 



summer 

 nurseries. 



LHOU ZIOOMBBM. Two-jointed podded. (Pax. Mag. Bot) Leguminosea?. 

 Monadelphia Decandria. A native of Mexico. It is a shrubby plant and 

 somewhat a climber, thriving in either a stove or greenhouse. It grows freely 

 and blooms plentifully. It does well too in summer in the open air, in a warm 

 situation. The flowers are pea-shaped, an inch and a half across, a rich yellow 

 colour, very showy, and in doors blooms through winter. 



Clrrodehobuh botoatom. Sinuate-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4255.) Verbenacea?, 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. A native of Sierra Leone. It is a low stove shrub, 

 producing numerous large corymbous heads of white flowers, which are highly 

 l'ra .'rant. 



Datura cohnioera. HoRH-bbahino. (Bot. Mag. 4252.) Solaneso, Pen- 

 tandna Monogynia. A shrubby plant, blooming freely in the open air in the 

 summer season, and protected in a cool greenhouse the other seasons Inw 

 species. Sir William Hooker observes, is known in collections under the name 

 Brugmansia Knightii. The flowers are ai out six inches long, creamy-white, 



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