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heads of such fine flowers will give it a fine effect, and where practicable in a 

 stove it deseives to be grown. 



Rondei.etia odorata. — Sweet-scented. (Bot. Mag. 3953.) Rubiaceae. Fi>n- 

 tandria Monogynia. A very ornamental stove-plant. So justly is it esteemed, 

 that it formed a specimen in nearly every collection shown at the Chiswick exhi- 

 bitions this season. The plant grows from three to five feet high. The flowers 

 are produced in terminal corymbs, of a bright vermilion colour; the centre of 

 each flower has a bright yellow projecting rising cup, the contrast giving a very 

 pretty effect. The flowers, too, are slightly fragrant. It well deserves to be in 

 every hothouse collection. 



Solanum Bai.bisii.var. Bipinnata. — Balbis Nightshade. (Bot. Mag. 3954.) 

 Solaueae. Pentandria Monogynia. From Buenos Ayres, by Mr. Tweedie. to the 

 Royal Edinburgh Botanic Garden. As a species it is a very variable plant, both 

 in form of foliage, and specially so in the colour of its blossoms, being white, 

 creim-colour, pale blue, or purple, on distinct plants. All the varieties are 

 showy, and are well worthy a place in the hothouse or warm greenhouse. Each 

 blossom is about an inch and a half across. 



Stylidium pii.osum. — Hairy Stylewort. (Bot. Reg. 41.) Synonym. S. Dick- 

 soni. From the Swan River. It is a neat little greenhouse perennial, growing 

 freely in two parts saudy peat to one of loam, well drained. It must be treated 

 in summer as a sub-aquatic, but in winter be kept rather dry, in a part of the 

 greenhouse where there is plenty of light and air. The flowers are larger than 

 any other species yet introduced, the petals being broad, and each flower near 

 an inch across, white, and when a panicle of them are expanded, it is a neat and 

 pretty object. 



Trop.eoi.um edui.e. — Edible rooted Indian Cress. (Pax. Mag. Bot. July.) 

 Balsaminaceae. Octandria Monogynia. Synonym. T. polyphyllum of some col- 

 lections. The latter kind has not yet, says Dr. Llndley, been introduced ; what 

 have been received by several cultivators from Chili, and recently bloomed for the 

 first time in this county, supposed to be a blue-flowered kind, is only the T. edule, 

 but in different states of health has been so varied as to lead persons to conclude 

 that there were two species. Some handsome specimens were exhibited at the 

 Chiswick Shows, (see account in this Number,) which, with their bright 

 orange-coloured blossoms, each about an inch and a half across, were very hand- 

 some. It is an interesting companion to the T. tricolorum. 



The tubers require to be covered with soil, and in its blooming state must not 

 be allowed to flag for want of water, or it will be nearly certain to die. It well 

 deserves a place in the greenhouse, or warm situation in summer in the open 

 air. It trains readily to a trellis. 



Zichya glabuata. — Smooth-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3956.) Leguminosae. Dia- 

 delphia Decamlria. Synonym. Kennedya glabrata. From the Swan River, and 

 though we have formerly noticed it, it is so neat and pretty a flowering plant, 

 deserving a place in every greenhouse, we cannot forbear to offer it again to the 

 notice of our readers. When properly grown, it forms one mass of its bright 

 scarlet flowers. It can be procured, too, at a very low price, of most nursery- 

 men. 



P/antt noticed, but not figured, in the Botanical Register. 



Caixipsyche encrosioides. — A new genus of Amaryllideae. The flowers are 

 produced about ten in each scape, reddish-scarlet. The bulbs were brought from 

 the West Coast of Mexico. 



Piers ovalifoi.ia. — A fine evergreen shrub from North India. The flowers 

 are white tinged with pink, and are produced in one-sided racemes at the end of 

 short lateral branches. A plant, twelve feet high, is growing in a pot, branching 

 gracefully, in the collection of S. F. Phelps, Esq., of Warminster. It is most 

 likely quite a hardy plant. In Nepal it forms a tree thirty or forty feet high. 



Lilium testaceum. — A Japan lily having the form of L. speciosum, but 

 varying in the parts of fructification. It is very handsome and distinct, at Messrs. 

 Rollisson's, of Touting. 



