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No. III. for May, contains ' 

 1232 to 1239. — Caprifoliuni longifiorum. A honeysuckle with the habit 

 of Cjaponiciim, but wholly destitute ot'the hairs of that species, and its fruit 

 is white, not black. From China to the Horticultural Society, by Mr. Reeves, 

 in J 826. It may be considered a valuable addition to our hardy climbers. 

 — Scott/a (Dr. Robert Scott, Profess, of Bot., Dublin) dentata ; Legumi- 

 nosae. A green-house plant from New Holland, " exceedingly deserving of 

 cultivation." — Clematis chlorantha; i?anunculaceae. A stove climber, from 

 Sierra Leone in 1823, by Mr. George Don. — Spermadictyon {sperma, a 

 seed, d'lktyon, a net; net-like arilius, with which the seeds are said to be 

 covered) azureum; i?ubiaceae. A shrub from Nepal, where it perfumes 

 the air, by its delicious fragrance, from November until March, Presented 

 by the East India Company to the Horticultural Society, where it flowered 

 [in the stove, we presume] in January last. — Reevesia (in honour of John 

 Reeves, Esq., now resident at Canton, to whom we are indebted for our 

 knowledge of this plant ; and whose unwearied exertions in the cause of 

 science have materially elucidated the botany of China, and bestowed 

 on our gardens many of the fairest ornaments they contain) thyrsoidea; 

 Byttneriace^ A handsome, green-house, evergreen shrub, with white 

 flowers, and so remarkable in point of affinity, that it is stationed be- 

 tween Pterospermum and Sterculia, " confirming the propriety of M. 

 Kunth's combination of the Sterculiaceae of Ventenat with the Bytiner- 

 mcecB of Mr. Brown ; and, in fact, breaking down every barrier between 

 them." — Rlbes setosum. " By far the most ornamental of all the gooseber- 

 ries yet in our gardens." The flowers are white, the branches and prickles 

 of a brownish red, and the berries black, but of no merit as edible fruit. — 

 Ruelh'a Sabini«;;rt (named by Dr. Wallich in compliment to Joseph Sabine, 

 Esq., F.R.S. &c. &c., the indefatigable Secretary of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety) ; ^canthaceae. An " extremely beautiful flower, which will probably 

 become one of the choicest ornaments of our hot-houses. The leaves, when 

 young, are of a deep purple on their lower side ; the flowers are of a deli- 

 cate, very transparent, violet blue; and the bracteae, which remain long 

 after the flowers have fallen, being of a warm, lavender colour, and closely 

 covered with transparent glands, give an air of beauty to the plant when 

 the flowers themselves have fallen. It is a tender green-house plant, pro- 

 pagated by cuttings. A cold green-house wovdd not be suitable, and a stove 

 appears to be too hot for it." Native of the Pundica mountains. — Den- 

 drobium {dendron, a tree, bio, to live ; all the genuine species are found 

 upon trees in the hot parts of the East Indies). A stove epiphyte, which 

 grows more freely than some others. 



The Botanical JSIiscellany : containing Figures and Descriptions of such 

 Plants as recommend themselves by their Novelty, Rarity, or History, or 

 by the Uses to which they are applied in the Arts, in Medicine, and in 

 Domestic Economy ; together with occasional Botanical Notices and 

 Information. By William Jackson Hooker, LL.D.,F.R.A. and L.S., and 

 Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. London. 8vo, 

 in Parts quarterly. 155. col.; 105. 6d. plain. 



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 her periodical works, destined to include descriptions of new plants and 

 miscellaneous notices relative to botany exclusively, our own country has 

 yet no work of the kind ;" and that " it is with the view of supplying this 

 desideratum, that the Editor has made the present work to include such 

 miscellaneous notices as might give it the character of a Journal, besides 

 the descriptions and figures of those plants in particular which are new or 

 little known, or are useful in the arts, in domestic economy, or in medicine, 

 and which have not yet been figured and described in any work to which 

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