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The flowers are tube-formed, an inch and a half long, of a rich scarlet 

 colour, with a white rimmed mouth. It was obtained from Mexico by 

 J. Anderson, Esq., the Holme, Regent's-park, London. Figured in 

 Pax. Mag. Bot. 



Cyananthus lobatus — LoBED Ctananth. 



Polemoniace(B. Pentandria Monogynia. 



A hardy herbaceous plant, stated to have been collected in Chinese 

 Tartary, on the snowy passes, in October, 1844, at an elevation of 

 12,000 feet. It has bloomed in the garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society at Chiswick. It is a delicate little plant, producino- 

 bell-shaped flowers, with a large five-parted spreading limb, of a rich 

 blue purple colour, lighter in the centre. Figured in Bot. Reg., p. 6. 



Dendrobium triadenium — Three-knobbed dendrc:, cm. 



Orchidacea. Gynandria Monandria. 



Introduced from the East Indies, and has bloomed in Mr. Rucker's 

 collection at Wandsworth. The flowers are produced in a close 

 racemose-panicle, they are nearly white, with streaks of rosy-violet. 

 The lip is white, with three deep yellow lobes at the tip. Each flower 

 is about an inch across. Figured in Bot. Reg., p. L 



Statice eximia — Large Pink Sea Lavender. 



Plumbaginacece. Pentandria Pentagynia. 



Discovered in Tartary, south of Songaria. It is a hardy perennial, 

 growing about two feet high, and blooms the greater part of summer. 

 The flowers are produced in long terminating spikes, of many dense 

 lateral ones, and are of a pretty rosy-lilac colour. It is a handsome 

 border plant, well deserving cultivation. It has bloomed in the 

 London Horticultural Society's Garden. Figured in Bot. Reg., p. 2. 



Victoria regia — The Victoria Water-Lily. 



Nymphaacece. Polyandria Polygynia. 



It has afforded us much pleasure to observe the very great improve- 

 ment effected in the Botanical Magazine during the last two years ; 

 the style and execution of the work, as Avell as the very judicious se- 

 lection of flowers figured, the excellent descriptive remarks, &c., the 

 entire being under the direction of Sir W. J. Hooker, places it now in 

 high estimation. The January Number for the present year is wholly 

 occupied with a most interesting account of the above-named magnifi- 

 cent plant, and contains also four fine coloured figures of the flowers, 

 one of the natural size fully expanded, another representing one just 

 opening, and a third separate portions, as a fruit of it, &c. The first 

 plate is a reduced representation of the plant as it appears in its natural 

 situation, showing twenty-six of the fully opened flowers, unexpanded 

 flowers, and fully formed leaves and fruit, which sketch is chiefly done 

 from Sir R. H. Schomburgh's scene in his views of British Guiana, 

 where he had it figured. 



In order to have somewhat of an accurate knowledge of its noble 

 appearance, these figures should be seen. 



" Seldom has any plant," observes Sir W. Hooker, " excited such 



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