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Melastomacece. 



MARCE^T/// Dec. Mabcetia. (In honour ol Dr. Marcel, who has written on vegetable poisons.) 

 decussata Grah. cross-leaved jck Q pr. f s.o Pk Brazil 1840. C co Bot. 223. 

 Synonyme : Rhexia decussflta Mart. S; Schrank. 



A pretty little shrub, with pink flowers, a native of Brazil, raised in Mr. 

 Cunningham's nursery, Comely Bank, near Edinburgh. " It has been kept in 

 the stove ; but one plant, placed in the greenhouse, stood there in October 

 without injury." (Botanist, June.) 



Acantkdcece. 

 3659. STROBTLA'NTHES 



scabra Lind/. rough St CD or 4 m Y India ]8i0. C p.l Bot. reg. 1841, 32. 



A very handsome stove shrub, with bright yellow flowers, which flowered 

 lately at Syon. " It requires to be managed in much the same manner as an 

 Eranthemum or a Justicia. It strikes readily from cuttings, and grows luxu- 

 riantly in any free soil." (Bot. Reg., -June.} 



T/iymclecg. 

 87. PIMELE'A [1841, 33. 



spectabilis Lindl. showy 3fc ; | or 3 ap. my W.Pk Swan River 1840. l.p.s Bot. reg. 



A showy species, with very large heads of flowers, and " smooth, I'ather 

 glaucous leaves, so arranged as to form four rows along the stem." It is 

 easily cultivated if grown in "a mi.Kture of loam, peat, leaf-mould, and sand;" 

 and, though it is usually kept in a pot, " it is most beautiful when planted in 

 the border of the conservatory." (^Bot. Beg., June.) 



OrchiddcecB. 

 2530. CATASE'TUM [34. 



trxilla Lindl. trowehshaped ^ [Z3 cu 1 s G.Br S. Araer. 1840. D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1841 



A curious species of Catasetum, which flowered in the Stanhope Nursery 

 in September, 1840. The flowers are of a dingy green and brown ; and " the 

 lip has much the form of a trowel." (Bot. Beg., June.) 



J'dlnKS. 



2682. ARE^CA 23570 montana. 



Synonyme : Euterpe montana Grah. Bot. Mag. 3874. 



Art. X. On bringing the Cacti raised from Seed quicker into Flotver. 

 By M. VON Warszewitz, Gardener in Insterburg. 



(From the Transactions of the Prussian Horticidtural Society.^ 



In 1835, about the middle of May, I had two kinds of Cacti in 

 flower, viz. Cactus speciosa and Cactus alata. C. alata had 



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