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seeds, however, are allowed by all to be good, and even, when roasted, to have 

 the taste of chestnuts. In Amboyna, the bats greedily devour this fruit, and, 

 passing the seeds entire, thus aid the more extended propagation of the 

 plant. In Ceylon, where the tree grows most plentifully, and where it at- 

 tains the greatest size and perfection, it forms a considerable part of the 

 diet of the natives, at particular times of the year. The unripe fruit is also 

 used pickled, or cut into slices and boiled, or fried in palm oil. The wood 

 itself is like mahogany in colour, when it has been for some time exposed to 

 the air : and, in some parts of India, is on that account employed to make 

 furniture of. It is more commonly employed in building houses, for which 

 it is well suited. From the juice, or milk, a very viscid birdlime is made." 



Dr. Hooker sees no reason for making two species of this plant, both en- 

 tire and cut leaves being found in the same individual, and the different 

 quality and flavour of the fruit probably depending upon cultivation. The 

 Artocarpus flowered last December, in the stove of the Edinburgh botanic 

 garden. 



Dracas^ia australis ; .^^sphodeleae. Figured from a plant which flowered 

 in the green-house of the Edinburgh botanic garden, in May, 1827. — 

 Chaetogastra lanceolata ; Melastomese. An annual from the West Indies. 



— N'lcotiana glauca ; (Solaneae. A tender annual from Buenos Ayres. — 

 Osbeckia glomerata ; Melastomese. From the West Indies, and apparently 

 an annual. — il^alva angustifolia ; i^falvace^. From Mexico, suifruti cose, 

 and very ornamental in the open border. — Hedyotis campanuliflora ; Rn- 

 biaceas. The iEginetia capitata of Jameson's Journal. A very beautiful 

 herbaceous plant, from Brazil, flowering in the stove almost the whole of 

 the year. 



No. XX. for August, contains 

 2841 to 2347. — Tillandsk (from Prof. Tillands, bot. auth. in 1683) 

 psittacina, Vaxrot-Vike-Jloivered Tillandsia ; 'QromeMacece. An inhabitant of 

 the trunks of trees, recently introduced by W. Harrison, Esq., of Rio de 

 Janeiro, " to the rich collection of his brother, Richai'd Harrison, Esq., of 

 Aighburgh, near Liverpool." This plant may " certainly rank among the 

 most beautiful of this curious genus," from the singularly brilliant colour of 

 the rachis, bracte^e, and flowers. — Primula verticillata, ^hor\edL-Jiou'ered 

 Primrose; Primulacese. {fig. 105.) Raised in the Glasgow botanic garden, 

 from seed from M. Otto, CM. H.S., of Berlin, 

 in 1826, and flowered in the beginning of 

 March, 1828. " The divided edge of the 

 corolla seems the only deviation from the 

 essential character of P. verticillata of Foi-skal, 

 and the analogy of other species, as P. prseni- 

 tens, shows that this cannot be relied on as a 

 specific distinction." This plant was found by 

 Forskal, "growing by the sides of streams 

 on the mountain Kurma, in Arabia Felix." 



— Gaultherk (Gaulthier, a French physician, 

 •who wrote on the sugar-maple) Shdllon; Eri- 

 ceae. This plant was discovered by Archibald 

 Menzies, Esq., on the north-west coast of Ame- 

 rica, " growing in pine forests, under the shade 

 of trees, where scarcely any other plant 

 would live." Its handsome and gracefiU 

 flowers, with the large, glossy, evergreen leaves, render it a most desirable 

 plant for the American border. Its berries are much esteemed by the 

 natives, " on account of their agreeable flavour ; and we can attest their 

 excellence from having tasted some which Dr. Sconler brought home." 



— Epidendrum fuscatum, Dingy-/oM;e'?-6'c? Epidendrum ; Orchideee. From 

 St. Vincent, by the Rev. L. Guildingj and, being treated as other tropical 



