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perfectly ripened seeds were saved, which have been sown in 

 the garden of the Horticuhural Society. It will be a fine ad- 

 dition to our annual climbers. {Bot. Reg.j April.) 



Jasminidce(B. 



JASMI'NUM 

 caudAtuin Wall. Tail-leaved Jasmine. A stove plant; growing fen feet high; with 

 white flowers; appearing in summer; a native of India; increased by cultinga. Bot. 

 Reg., 1842, t. 26. 



A fine, but scentless, species of Jasmine, with opposite 

 serrate leaves, deep green, tapered into very narrow points, 

 from whence its name. The flowers appear in dense terminal 

 cymes, or panicles, snow white, and have a showy appear- 

 ance. It is well adapted for a stove, where it grows in great 

 luxuriance trained up the back wall, on the rafters, or round 

 stakes placed in a pot. It grows in a mixture of loam, leaf 

 mould and rotten dung, and is easily multiplied by cuttings. 

 {Bot. Reg., May.) 

 Gosneridcece. 



ACHI'MINES 

 longiflora Bcnth. Long-flowered nchimines. A green-house plant; growing eighteen 

 inches high; with blue flowers; appearing in summer; a native of Guatemala; increas- 

 ed by the roots or bulbs; grown In any rich soil. Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 19. 



"No individual, whether potentate or commoner, no gov- 

 ernment, no association of individuals in any country, ever 

 embellished their native land, in the same number of years, 

 with such a multitude of rare and beautiful plants as the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of London has brought into England, either 

 through their correspondents, or by the means of their collec- 

 tors, among whom Forbes, Parkes, Douglas, and Hartweg 

 stand prominent. The annuals, the perennials, the hardy de- 

 ciduous shrubs, the evergreens, the creeping plants, the green- 

 house and stove plants, now in cultivation, have principally 

 sprung from the rich mine in the Society's garden; and now, 

 after twenty years' importation of novelties, here is one which 

 yields to nothing except the Wistarm (Glycene) sinensis. 

 More beautiful than the gayest of our stove herbaceous plants, 

 as easy to cultivate as the commonest of perennials, more pro- 

 digal of flowers than the finest of the gloxinius, ever blooming, 

 except during the few months when it sinks into its winter's rest, 

 this Achimines longiflora is an invaluable gift by the Society to 

 every one who has a small green-house." Such is the account 

 given of this new plant by Dr. Lindley, which we have extract- 

 ed entire, preferring it to any description of our own. From 

 the representation in the drawing, its merits are not overrated. 



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