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p. 231,) it flowers at the same season ; but the leaves of the present species 

 are narrower, are marked with impressed dots on the upper surface, and the 

 flowers are pure white, with a much slenderer and more filiform tube. It is 

 extremely pretty, flowering freely in the greenhouse in common peat soil, and 

 retaining its suowy blossoms for a considerable length of time. It was raised 

 from seeds sent by Mr. Baxter, from King George's Sound. Pimelea, from 

 Pimele, fat. 



7. Marsdeniaflavescens, yellowish flowered. Pentandria, Digynia. Ascle- 

 pidea;. This species was found by Mr. Allan Cunningham, who discovered 

 it in New Holland, on the sea shore, at the lllawana district, in lat. 34 -^, 

 whence living plants were imported to his Majesty's gardens at Kew, where 

 they flower throughout the summer months. It is a climbing plant, with 

 yellowish green flowers, of little merit, Marsdenia, so named by Mr. Brown, 

 in compliment to William Marsden, Esq., an encouragerof botany, and the 

 able author of a History of Sumatra. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany, in the University of London. 4s. coloured, 

 3s. plain. 



\. Libertia formosa, handsome Libertia. Monadelphia,Triandria, Iridea?. This 

 plant was found by Mr. James Anderson, in the Island of Chiloe, growing 

 on the sea shore, within reach of the waves. It is a half hardy herbaceous 

 plant, flowering iu May; stem, rises about one foot four inches high, with 

 about three stem leaves ; root leaves from half to one foot long, sword shaped. 

 Flowers capitate, from eight to teu in each head, white. The plant is in- 

 creased by dividing the root stock. Libertia, so called in compliment to 

 Mademoiselle M. A. Libert, a learned Belgian botanist. 



2. Combretum grandiflorum, large flowered. Decandria, Monognia. Com- 

 bretaceae. This is one of the many noble plants in which the colony of Sierra 

 Leone abounds. It is not a climber, as it is sometimes called, but rather a 

 scrambling plant, raising itself upon other plants by means of a very curious 

 kind of hook with which it is supplied. At first sight one would wonder what 

 this book can be; for nothing like spine or prickle, or tendril, can be dis- 

 covered upou the branches; for want of these, it is necessary that their place 

 should be supplied by some special provision, which is of the following kind. 

 When the leaves are first fully formed they are seated upon a footstalk of a 

 very common appearance; but after a time they fall away, leaving the leaf- 

 stalk behind; the latter does not wither up, but gradually lengthens, hardens, 

 sharpens, and curves, till at last it becomes a powerful hook, admirably adapted 

 for catching hold of the branches of any tree that it may be near, and thus 

 elevating the plant from the earth. — In this country it can only be cultivated 

 in the stove, where it forms a bush of a few feet in height; and where its 

 boolu are not produced — they appear only in its native woods, where it is more 

 vigorous, and where alone it has occasion for them. — It flowered at the Duke 

 of Buccleugh's, in 1832, for six weeks at least, producing at least one hundred 

 clusters of its splendid red flowers. It is a most desirable plant, and ought to 

 be in every collection of stove plants. Culture, increased very readily by 

 cuttings. Soil : a rich mould. Combretum, a name applied by Pliny, to a 

 climbing plant. 



3. Pullentea subumbcllata, Subumbellate Pultenrca. Decandria, Mono- 

 gyni-a. Legnminom. It is a hardy greenhouse plant, a native of Van Die- 

 m.iii's land. It is cultivated in Mr. Lowe's nursery, at Clapton. A pretty 



- in tl I narrow -leaved plant, producing its yellow flowers in terminal heads of 

 Dtlllieroui blossoms. Culture increased by cuttings. Soil: sandy loam and 



peat. Pultentea, in compliment to Dr. William Pcltenev, a botanical 

 author. 



