Botanical Magazine. — Botanical Register. 445 



Art. TI. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, Sfc, published since June last, with some 

 Account of those considered the most interesting. 



Britain. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden displayed; New Series. 

 Edited by Dr. Hooker. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 5s. 6d. col.; 3s. plain. 



JS^o. XXX. for June, contains 



2911 to 2917. — Annona reticulata; Annonucece. A shrub, or small tree, 

 with spreading tuberculated branches, and numerous oblong-lanceolate 

 leaves, and small greenish yellow flowers, succeeded by a pulpy berry as 

 large as a good-sized orange, of a reddish brown colour, and said to taste 

 like a custard. Native of the West Indies, and grown in our stoves. In 

 St. Domingo the fruit is esteemed more as a quick and certain remedy 

 against diarrhoea and dysentery than for the table. — iotus pinnatus; 

 Leguniinosoe. " Another of the man}' interesting novelties discovered by 

 Mr. Douglas, and thus introduced to the gardens of the Horticultural 

 Society, where it flowered in June, 1828, in the open border, and in com- 

 mon soil." Perennial, and the only species of the genus with the leaves 

 pinnate. — Justic/a nodosa ; ^canthaceae. A low shrub, glabrous through- 

 out the stems and leaves, and worthy of a place in every stove, on account 

 of the large size and rich pale crimson colour of the flowers. — Calceolaria 

 thyrsiflora ; Scrojjhularinae. An erect shrub, raised in the Edinburgh bo- 

 tanic garden, from seeds received from Dr. Gillies of Mendoza ; "but it 

 flowered first in the collection of P. Neill, Esq., of Canno.i Mills." The 

 plant is much used in Chile for dyeing woollen cloths a crimson colour. 

 The blossoms have a light fragrance, not unlike the flowers of the labur- 

 num. — Dischldia (rfiV, twice, schizo, to split; dividing of the segments of the 

 corolla) bengalensis; Asclepiadece. A stove epiphyte, of straggling growth ; 

 succulent, glaucous, and of no beauty. — Plumbago rhomboidea. A stove 

 annual, with small purple flowers. 



We are glad to see one step taken in the road of improvement in this 

 Number, viz. the derivations of the botanic names given. The others will 

 follow in due time, or perhaps (but we hope not) out of time. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.R.S. L.S. &c. 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. In Svo Numbers, monthly. 

 4s. coloured. 



No. IV. for June, contains 

 1240 to 1246. — iJhodod^ndron arboreum var. roseum;; ^ricese. From 

 " the summit of the highest mountain among those wliich confine the 

 great valley of Nepal on the north, and at an elevation of not less than 

 10,000 ft., where it grows intermixed with the white variety, which is, 

 however, the less common of the two. In this mountainous region they 

 both attain, along with the scarlet sort, the size of large forest trees. The 

 latter, however, although it is found growing among them, is more naturally 

 the inhabitant of a zone 5000 ft. lower. It is also found all over the moun- 

 tains of Nepal and Kumoon, and Sirmore; and this may, as Dr. Wallich 

 remarks, account for its being less hardy than the red sort, because the col- 

 lectors are more apt to gather their seed from the trees low down on the 

 mountains, than from those at a greater elevation." — Clintonfa (Governor 

 De Witt Clinton, an amiable excellent man, and a distinguished patron of 



