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^•ilh a spike of biilliant vermillion scaiU^t flowers. Tlie species is ft general 

 iumate of the gardens in Madeira, to which it was probably brought from 

 Portunal, where it is much cultivated : the native country of this splendid 

 tree being Asia. Culture: cuttings very readily strike root; soil, rich light 

 loam.— Erythrina, see page 58. . „ , 



2. SaHUtluni albaium, sandalwood; Tetraudria Monogynia, Santalacje.— 

 The Santalum album, or true Sandal wood, is, as is well known, one of the 

 most fragrant of woods, and if, as some commentators suppose, it is the same 

 with the Almug or Alsjum of Scripture (and this is the more probable as it was 

 sent from Ophir); it was used iu the time of Solomon, and in the building ot 

 the Temple. It is most extensively employed iu making idols iu India, and 

 for incense at the altars of the Chinese deities. Grows abundantly la India, 

 on the mountains of the Malabar coast. 



3. Dryandra armdla, sharp-pointed Dryandra, Pentandna Monogynia. 

 Proteacea;. A much branching greenhouse shrub ; branches flexuose, glabrous, 

 clothed with a brown bark ; leaves very deeply pinuatifid ; flowers numerous, 

 long, slender, vellow, deeply divided into four very narrow, linear lacuna-. 

 The flowers are 'uninteresting, but the foliage is handsome. Seeds of this plant 

 were sent from New Holland to this country, and plants have been raised m 

 the Glasgow Botanic Garden, which flowered iu February, 1833. Culture: 

 increased by cuttings or seeds; soil, sandy peat. Dryandra, after Jonas 

 Drvander, a distinguished Botanist. 



4. Ilcteripieris chrijsophylla, golden leaved Chrysophylla ; Decandria Tn- 

 gynia. Malpighiacea;. .\ twining shrub, attaining to a great length. Leaves, 

 large, dark green on the upper side and a fine golden brown on the underside, 

 which making so striking a contrast renders it a handsome plant. The flowers 

 are orange-coloured, small. It is a desirable stove plant, a native of Brazil. 

 Culture: increased by cuttings; soil, sandy loam. Heteropteris, from Kteros, 

 various; and pteros, a wing : from the variable shape of the wing of the fruit. 



5. Pogostemun plectrantholdcs, Plectrauthus like; Didynamia Gyinnos- 

 permia. Labiata;. Seeds of this plant were received at the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, from the Mauritius, in 1830: it blossomed in the stove, 

 for the first time, in January and February, 1833. Whatever it has of beauty, 

 is derived from its long lilac bearded stamens ; the corolla is white. Pogos- 

 temon, from pogon, a beard, and stamon, a stamen. 



6. Azalea ledi/ulia,vai. phoenica?, purple flowered. Fragrant Indian Azalea, 

 Pentandria Monogynix Khododeudrex. The richly coloured flowers of this 

 plant make a brilliant appearance in the greenhouse, and form a striking 

 contrast with the white blossomed. The fragrance is similar to the white- 

 flowered, or perhaps mure powerful.— (See No. I. Flor. Cab. page 8). — Azalea, 

 from Azaleus, dry: arid, habitation suited to its native growth. 



7. BUchnum lancdAa, lance-shaped ; Cryptogamia Filices. Nat. Ord. Fi- 

 lices, or Fern tribe of plants. This plant is a native of Brazil. It is culti- 

 vated in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Culture: it is increased 

 by parting the roots, and planting them in moist earth placed between two 

 pieceg of broken garden -pot, a practice we believe now very general in the 

 cultivation of Ferns, and a very ratioual one, since such fragments retain the 

 moisture longer than the soil itself, and thus imitate, as it wire, the crevices 

 of rocks, where this beautiful U'be of plants so much delights to grow.— 

 IJlechnum, from Blechnon or Blachnon, iu Greek, from Bla; powerless, 

 iukipid. 



Edwards's Bolanical Hcyistcr. Edited by John Linuley, Esq. 

 Professor of Botaiiy, in the London University. Coloui-ed 

 4s., plain 3s. 



1. Uenllfimiti /r(i;i'{ftra, strawberry fruited; Tetraudria .Monogynia. ConiciB. 

 Tliiii valuable lujiiiiion to oin- collcelion of hardy shrubs, was raised in the 

 garden of J. H. Trcinayne, Ksc|., at lldigan, Cornwall, from seeds received 

 from his relation, Sir A. Uullcr, during hi.i residince iu the liast Indies. It i« 



