3S FloricuUural and Botanical Notices. 



Art. YII. FloricuUural and Botanical Notices of New and 

 Bomitifid Pknds figured in Foreign Periodicals ; with 

 Descriptions of those recently introduced to, or originated iti, 

 American Gardens. 



I.\ our animal summary of the progress of horticulture for 

 the past year, in a preceding page, we have given the names 

 of some of the most important plants of recent introduction. 

 We now continue our notices of plants figured in the foreign 

 periodicals, with a brief account of those more particularly 

 wortiiy of being added to our collections. 



Our object has always been to make our Magazine a com- 

 plete record of every new flower, as well as every new fruit, 

 tree, or vegetable, of the least interest whatever. We have had 

 complaints that our FloricuUural Notices have been of but 

 little value only to the botanist. We cannot agree with those 

 who view them in this light. If our pages are looked over 

 for the Vd^\. fourteen years, it will be seen that every beauti- 

 ful or desirable plant which our collections contain, has been 

 d.?scribcd or noticed in the Magazine; and every lover of 

 flowers, (and we know we have many such among our read- 

 ers.) would deeply feel the loss of these notices, which con- 

 tain information only to be procured at great cost by the pur- 

 chase of the elegant works in which they are figured. It 

 will, ihcrefore, be our object to continue our Floricultural 

 Notices as we have heretofore done. 



93. /I^scfiyna'nthus stami'nea Blum. Long-stamened Ms- 

 chynaiithus. (Geswercicese.) Java. 



A slove pliirt ; srowin;' 8 f: ol lii,h ; with crimson flowers ; appe.iring in summer ; increased by 

 culliiusiSitiwi] ill hejith soil hikI leaf mould. Flore lies Stries, pi. 358. 1818 



Aiioilier of the very s[)lendid iT^]schynanthuses from Java, 

 where it was found by Mr. Lubb, the indefatigable collector. 

 It is liilly equal to any of the species heretofore introduced, 

 having ample foliage, and axillary groups of the richest vel- 

 vety crimton flowers, with very long projecting stamens, 

 from whence iis specific name. Mr Lobb found it in the 

 hiiiriid forests of the mountains of Java. It will be a fine 

 acquisition to our stove plants. {Flore des Serres, June.) 



