136 Botanical Magazi?ie. — Botayikal Register. 



No. XVII. for May, contains 

 2819 to 2825. — Zygopetalon (zj/gos, a pair, petaton, a petal j petals in 

 twos) rostratum. A stove epiphyte (which Dr. Hooker calls a parasite, in 

 our opinion imjiroperly), with large, handsome, greenish-brown and white 

 flowers, of easy culture in the stove. It was introduced from Demerara to 

 the Liverpool botanic garden, by C. S. Parker, Esq., and flowered for the 

 first time in October, 1827. — Cactus alatus. The general appearance of 

 this species, when. not in flower, is that of Cactus speciosus, but it is readily 

 distinguished by the mid-ribs and nerves of the joints, and the small size of 

 the flowers. — 6'ida globiflora ; iVialvaceae. A stove shrub, from the Mau- 

 ritius to the Glasgow botanic garden. — Houstonza «erpyllif61ia ; i^ubiaceae. 

 A pretty little tufted alpine, not 6 in. in height, with white flowers. From 

 the mountains of New Hampshire in North America, by Mr. Blair, to Mr. 

 Cunningham's nursery, Cowley Bank, Edinburgh. — Octomeria serratifolia ; 

 Orchldeae. — Buddies madagascari(^nsis ; Fitices. A twiggy straggling 

 shrub, with ovato-lanceolate leaves, and terminal compound racemes of 

 small bright reddish orange flowers. A native of Madagascar, and a desir- 

 able inmate of our stoves. — Dioscoreo! cinnamomifolia ; Dioe'cia Hexan- 

 dria Lin., Hexandria Trigynia Sprerig., and Diosc6re<E. The root or yam 

 is an ill-shapen tuber, as large as the human head ; the stem is tv/ining, 

 branched, and hairy. The male flowers in racemes, very small, and of a 

 yellowish gi-een colour. " Detected in the woods about Rio de Janeiro, by 

 William Harrison, Esq., and by him introduced to the valuable collection 

 of his sister, Mrs. Arnold Harrison, at Aighburgh, near Liverpool. Its flower- 

 ing season is November. The male plant alone is at present known. We 

 are ignorant of the nature of the fruit, which may, perhaps, prove it to be 

 a Kajana ; and, indeed, in specific character, it seems to be allied to Swartz's 

 Rajdna (John Ray, the celebrated naturalist) ovata." 



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. II. for April, contains 

 1138 to 1144. — Pentstemon pulchellum ; Didynam. Angiosp^rmia, and 

 Scrophular. A handsome half-hardy perennial, from Mexico, in 1 826, to 

 Mr. Tate's nursery in Sloane Street, where it throve exceedingly in a warm 

 border exposed to the south. — Diospjrus Mabola {fig. 50.) ; Polyandria 

 Monog., and i<^benaceae. A slightly 

 branched shrub, or small tree, pro- 

 ducing a hard, compact, excessively 

 black wood of the ebony kind, and 

 the fruit known by the name of Ma- 

 bola in the Philippine Islands, and 

 said to have a firm white pulp, 

 wholesome, and of an agreeable fla- 

 vour. It is one of the rarest plants 

 in our stoves, where it is valued for 

 the beauty of its leaves, and the 

 fragrance of its flowers. The only 

 two plants in Britain are at Kew and 

 Chiswick ; to the latter garden it was 

 brought from China by Mr. John 

 Potts, in 1822. — iupinus laxiflorus ; 

 Diadel. Decand., and LeguminosEe. 

 A small, slender, perennial species, found by Mr. Douglas in dry, open, 

 gravelly plains, about the great rapids of the river Colombia, where it 

 is a social plant (forming patches of considerable extent), occasionally 

 acquiring a suffruticose habit. The flowers appear in August, and are 



