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some drooping flowers, from S. Africa, by Mr. Bowie ; the fruit is a large red 

 three-celled berry. — 5ida sessiliflora; JlfalvacejE. This plant is more her- 

 baceous than woody, from 2 to 3 ft. high, with a round branched stem 

 soft with numerous short hairs, and cup-shaped yellow flowers. The seeds 

 were sent by Dr. Gillies, from Mendoza, in" South America, and the plants 

 flowered in the stove in November, 1827. — Siev^rsia triflora; RoskcGX. A 

 perfectly hard}', perennial-rooted, graceful plant, with the same " subdued, 

 but agreeable colour, as our Geum rivale." From Upper Louisiana by Mr. 

 Bradbury. — Pulten<2?^« pedunculata ; Leguminosae. " A low-growing shrub, 

 with slender flexuose branches, which are deflexed, especially the lower 

 ones, pubescent ; branchlets numerous," with small yellow flowers, in pairs, 

 from the extremity of the young branches. The seeds were sent by Mr. 

 Fraser, from New Holland. Flowers in the green-house in Maj'. — Do- 

 Aouaa attenuata ; Sapindaceae. A shrubby, erect, round-stemmed plant, 

 with cracked brown-coloured bark, nodding yellow flowers, and spreading 

 sessile leaves. The seeds were received from Mr. Fraser, of New South 

 Wales, in 1824. Flowered in the green-house in February and March. — 

 7Ms lut^scens ; /rldeae. A pale yellow one-flowered plant, about 7 in. 

 high with scimitar-shaped leaves. A native of hilly ^stony places in France 

 and Germany. 



Ko. XXIII. for Novcmher, contains 

 2862 to 2868. — Cynara Cardunculus ; Compositae. This plant, like the 

 artichoke, has spineless leaves, but possesses the other characters of the 

 cardoon family, " and is one with the beauty of which I was much struck in 

 the garden of the Horticultural Society of Edinburgh, in the autumn of last 

 year, 1827 ; and, indeed, I can scarcely conceive a more highly ornamental 

 plant for any shrubbery or extensive garden." The stem is from 4 to 5 ft. 

 high, the leaves very long, and the heads of flowers large and numerous, of 

 a blue colour, with the heads of the calyx tipped with red. — Sieversia 

 Peckii; iJosaceae. " I have native specimens of this rare species of Sievers/rt 

 from Dr. Nuttall and Dr. Boot, gathered by those gentlemen in the White 

 Mountains of New Hampshire, and find them exactly to correspond with 

 the subject here figured, and which was brought from the same country, 

 and probably from the same mountains, to Mr. Cunningham near Edinburgh, 

 in whose collection it flowered in June of this year, 1828." The root is 

 perennial and woody, the stem 1 ft. or more high, leaves mostly radical, 

 and the flowers terminal and solitary upon each ramification or peduncle, 

 and yellow. — Salvia pseudo-coccinea; Labiatae. This is a" small, slender, 

 shruisby plant, about 2 ft. high, with upright, hairy, tetragonal branches, 

 and opposite downy leaves, which are petiolate, varying in shape, ovate, or 

 oblong, in our plants more inclining to cordate, deeply varied, the margin 

 crenulated, the apex more or less acute." A very beautiful and desirable 

 stove plant, with richly coloured blossoms continuing long in perfection. 

 It was first described by Jacquin and is a native of South America ; Hum- 

 boldt found it in New Andalusia. — Blumenbachia inslgnis ; Lousecc. This 

 plant " appears to have been introduced to our stoves by John Hunneman, 

 Esq., probably from Germany ; the German naturalists having received it 

 both from Monte Video on the eastern, and from Chile on the western, 

 side of South America." The stem is herbaceous, climbing, and much 

 branched, the leaves opposite and remote, and the flowers white. It re- 

 quires the same treatment as the rest of the Lousccc. — O'xalis carnosa ; 

 Oxalideae. This singular species of wood-sorrel was received from Valpa- 

 raiso and well deserves cultivation, flowering during a great part of the 

 summer. It succeeds well in a cool green-house. The root is a large 

 subfusiform tuber, the leaflets ternate and obcordate, ami the flowers of a 

 pale yellow. It is readily increased liy the roots, and will, without doubt, 

 flourish in the warm season, when i)lantcd in light earth in a slicltercd situ- 



