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those who know Mr. Curtis, and have seen his splendid works on camellias 

 and florist's flowers, which never can have returned him a tithe of their 

 cost, will readily believe his assertion. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.L 8, In 8vo 

 Numbers. 4s. coloured. 



Wo. CXL1X. for July, contains 

 1074 to 1080. — Mons'a catenulata, Chain-dotted Morsea. Nearly akin to 

 M. iridioides. Stove ; May. — Acacia subcaerulea, Blue-barked Acacia. Hand- 

 some, remarkable for the fine copious blue bloom with which it is covered. — 

 Convolvulus scrobiculatus, Pitted Convolvulus. A twining annual from Ame- 

 rica, remarkable for the deep pits of its leaves. — Urvillea ferruginea ; 8 and 1, 

 and Sapindacea;. A remarkable stove plant, twining and clinging by means of 

 the lowest pedicels of its racemes, which are sterile and converted into ten- 

 drils, to the length of twenty feet. — Camellia reticulata. A splendid new 

 species brought from China, by Captain Rawes, to T. C. Palmer, Esq., at 

 Bromley. (Gard. Mag., vol.'i, p. 341.) It is distinguished by its rigid, flat, 

 strongly reticulated leaves, arid also by its silky ovarium. — Psidium (a name 

 of Dioscorides for the Pomegranate) pyriferum, Pear-bearing Guava. P. 

 pyriferum, pomiferum, polycarpum, and Catt\eianum, are readily fruited in 

 our stoves : the last, or purple Guava, is the most valuable, and has pro- 

 duced abundance of excellent fruit, with no trouble, in the stove of the gen- 

 tleman whose name it bears as a specific distinction. — iStachys (stachys, a 

 spike) gran didentata, Large-toothed Stachys; 14 and 1, and Labiatas. A 

 hardy herbaceous plant from Chile, by Mr. M'Rae to the Horticultural 

 Society in 1825. Mr. Rae also sent S. albicaulis, a remarkable species, and 

 some others in the Horticultural Society's garden. 



JVo. CL. for August, contains 



1081 to 1087. — Anandssa bracteata, Crimson-bracted Pine-apple; 6 and 1, 

 and Bromeliaceae. " A superb plant, the great merit of which consists in 

 the clear deep crimson bracteae of the flowering spike, which retain their 

 colour, although less brilliant, in the ripe fruit. The fruit is also of very 

 good quality. Introduced from Brazil, by way of Portugal, in 1820, by R. 

 Barclay,Esq. F.L.S.H.S. — Collinsk (a botanist and mineralogist of Philadel- 

 phia) parvifldra, Small-flowered Collinsia. " A hardy annual from Colombia, 

 more remarkable as a botanical curiosity, than as an ornamental plant." — Cal- 

 ceolaria integrifolia var. angustifolia; Scrophularineas. {Gard. Mag., vol. ii. 

 p. 187.) "A half-hardy suffruticose plant, well adapted for planting in the open 

 border in masses during the summer, and for ornamenting a conservatory in 

 winter. It is always in flower, and is cultivated and increased with the 

 greatest facility. If nailed to an east or west wall, and protected with a 

 mat, it will survive our winters, and flourish exceedingly; but, on a south 

 wall, it is too much scorched by the sun." 



Tabern£emontan« gratissima ; Apocyneae. A fragrant stove shrub, with 

 white flowers in September, propagated by cuttings, and growing freely in 

 loam, peat, and sand. (Seep. 52.) — Muscari (moschos, musk) glaucum, 

 Glaucom-leaved Musk Hyacinth. A bulb from Persia, apparently quite 

 hardy. — Dianthus (dios, divine, antlws, a flower; of divine beauty) suf- 

 fruticosa. A half-hardy suffrutescent Chinese pink, flowering freely from 

 July to October, and highly deserving of cultivation. It has not been dis- 

 covered in a single state, and is probably only a variety of the common In- 

 dian Pink, Dianthus chine'nsis. 



O'phrys (ophrys, eyebrow ; arched form of the leaves of the calyx) 

 atrata, Dark-%>p<?dOphrys. From Rome to the Horticultural Society in 1826, 

 by Signor Mauri ; the roots dried, and packed in paper like seeds ! It is 

 observed by Mr. Lindley, that the roots of several other orchideous plants 

 of the South of Europe were received from Signor Mauri, similarly packed.* 



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