256 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



REVIEW. 



Donn's Hortus Cantabrigensis ; or, an Accented Catalogue of In- 

 digenous and Exotic Plants, cultivated in the Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, by the late James Donn, Curator, Fellow 

 of the Linnean and Horticultural Societies. With the additions 

 and improvements of the successive editors : F. Pursh, J. 

 Lindley, Ph. D., and the late G. Sinclair, F.L.S., F.H.S. 

 The Thirteenth Edition >, further enlarged, improved, and brought 

 doion to the present time, by P. N. Donn. London ; Longman 

 and Co., 1845. 



We hail -with pleasure the appearance of an extended and mucli 

 improved edition of this very useful hook. As a general plant 

 catalogue it is the easiest of reference of any other we have seen. It 

 contains the description of nearly every essential on each plant : as 

 natural order, Linnean class and order, generic, specific, and English 

 name ; native country, time of introduction, period of flowering, 

 colour of flowers, whether stove, greenhouse, or hardy plant ; pe- 

 rennial, biennial, or annual ; tree, shrub, or herbaceous ; evergreen 

 or deciduous; height of growth; reference to figures in maga- 

 zines, &c, &c. In one or two plant catalogues by other authors, 

 the derivation of the generic name, soil most suitable, and in what 

 situation in its native habitat it was discovered, are given. The 

 first and second is worth adding to another edition of Donn's, the 

 latter is not worthy of heing recorded. There are a few inaccu- 

 racies in spelling the names, &c. We ^cordially recommend the 

 work, assured it will be found a very satisfactory one. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Anigozantbus pulcherrimus. Beautipul Yellow. (Bot. Mag. 4180.) 

 Hemodoraceac. Hexandiia Monogynia. A native of the Swan River Colony, 

 where it was discovered by Mr. James Drummond. Plants have been raised 

 from seed by Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery. The plant grows from two to 

 three feet high. The flowers are produced in a large brandling panicle, of a 

 rich yellow colour. It is a very interesting and showy green-house plant ; well 

 meriting a situation therein. 



Ciiiuita Zf.ylanica. Ceylon Chirita. (Bot. Mag. 4182.) Cyitandracese. 

 Didyuamia Angiospermia. A native of Ceylon, and was raised by Mr. Hen- 

 derson, gaidenerto Earl Fitzwilliam, at Went worth House, fiom seeds he had 



