192 Notices of new and heautiful Plants. 



we can aid in furnishing our readers with such information, it will be 

 our endeavor to do so. 



Tlie works named at the head of this article, as w^ell as all others 

 of a similar character, are very expensive, and not likely to be in the 

 possession of but few amateurs or gardeners. We shall therefore 

 make such extracts and remarks as will give the reader as distinct an 

 idea as possible of every plant. 



We have arranged the different genera according to the natural 

 system of Jussieu, taking the orders in course ; this method, we 

 hope, if not particularly benefiting all our readers, will not be read 

 with less interest. 



Class I. 



Plants having distinct flowers and sexes. 



Sub-class I. 



Exogenous or Dicotyledonous Plants, (witli two seed leaves or cotyledons.) 



Division J. Plants with a polypctalous (many-leaved) corolla. 



III. Ranunculucc(c. 

 ANEMONE. 



vitifolia. WulVtrJi.. Vine-leaved Anemone. Grows about a foot and a half high; 

 perennial ; flowers wliite ; a native of Nepal ; increased by division of the 

 root: figured in the Bot. Mag. t. 337G. 



This according to the plate is a very beautiful species of the 

 Anemone, very few of which are cultivated in our gardens. Ac- 

 cording to Dr. Wallich, " it is one of the commonest as well as most 

 ornamental flower plants in Nepaul, where it grows in all the forests 

 of the great valley and the surrounding mountains, delighting in the 

 most shady, retired, and moist situations in the vicinity of rills and 

 torrents." — (Bot. Mag., January.) 



LX. ProtcdcccB. 

 BANKSIA. 



speciosa. R. Tlrown. Showy Banksia. Flower not very ornamental, but valued 

 for its " beautiful foliage and graceful habit." Bot. Register, t. 1728. 



This " rare species" has never flowered but three times since its 

 introduction into England. It is a native of " Lewis's Island, on 

 the south coast of New Holland." — (Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



C. Sapinddcc(E. 

 EUPHORIA. 



Longan. The Longan tree. A tender stove plant ; valued for its fruit ; grows to 

 the size of a large tree in its native climate (China) ; Bot. Register, t. 1729. 



" The Litchi and the Longan are two of the finest fruits that the 

 Chinese possess." Both are occasionally sent to England as pre- 

 sents, but they are never seen in the shops. They have, when im- 

 ported, a brown shell, which in the former is prickly, in the latter 

 simply warted, and contain a single seed surrounded in a succu- 

 lent aril, having much the taste of an excellent Raisin, only more 



