454 Botanical Cabinet. — Flora Australasica. 



leaves, and the rich rose-coloured bracteas of this species, give it a particu- 

 larly beautiful appearance. 



Botanical Cabinet. By Messrs. Loddiges. In 4to and 8vo Parts. 

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Part CXXIX. for January, contains 

 1281 to 1290. — Mesembryanthemum polyanthon. " A low bushy plant, 

 of easy culture, requiring the green-house in winter. It will increase by 

 cuttings without difficulty. The soil should be sandy loam. The flowers 

 are in perfection in July and August ; they are most abundant, and of a 

 delightful colour, the brilliancy of which is inimitable. If this, and many 

 others of the same family, are taken out of their pots and planted in a 

 sunny border, they will grow and flower in as great luxuriance, probably, 

 as they do in Africa." — Anigozanthos flavida ; l/asmodoraceae. A singular 

 plant "from New Holland, with stems from ] to 2 ft. in height, and curious 

 dingy flowers, which appear in summer, and last a long time. — Pimelea 

 decussata ; rhymeleae. An elegant, handsome, bushy shrub, from New 

 South Wales, in 1814. Green-house, and easy culture in sand and peat. — 

 Nauclea Adina; .Rubiaceae. A low bushy shrub, flowering freely even when 

 young ; smelling agreeably, living in the green-house, thriving in the stove, 

 and of the easiest culture in loam and peat. — Catdlpa syringifdlia ; Big- 

 noniacece. A well-known beautiful tree, from the banks of the Ohio and 

 Mississippi. — i£rica rigida. — Oxytropis campestris ; Leguminosae. A peren- 

 nial, from Switzerland, of low stature, and only to be increased by seeds. — 

 Callistemon scabrum ; ikfyrtaceae. Splendid pink flowers in July, and the 

 easiest culture. — J'ster alpinus var. ramosus. A beautiful little alpine, 

 about a foot high, with blue flowers all the summer. — Coreopsis grandi- 

 flora. A hardy perennial, from North America, by R. Barclay, Esq., grow- 

 ing from 2 to 5 ft. high, and flowering the greater part of summer. 



Part CXXX.for February, contains 

 1291 to 1300. — Escalloma glandulosa. A small half-hardy tree, from 

 China. — Witherfngia montana. — Mesembryanthemum formosum. — .Erica 

 Aalictriflora. Curious, its flowers being dissimilar from those of most 

 other heaths. — Alstrcemeria pelegrina. A green-house plant of great 

 beauty, from Peru. — Gloxinia hirsuta. Stove ; curious. — Jsclepias tube- 

 rosa. A well-known and very handsome perennial. — Lobelia corymbosa. 

 " A pretty little green-house plant, from the Cape, which was presented 

 to us by our kind friend, Mr. M'Nab, of the Edinburgh garden, a truly 

 splendid establishment, worthy of the modern Athens." — Pteris palmata. 

 An elegant stove fern. — Tradescantza latifolia. An herbaceous plant, from 

 Peru, with flowers of a pale blue colour. Green-house ; light loam. 



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iVb. VIII. for January, contains 

 29 to 32. — Callistemon {kallistos, most beautiful, stemon, stamen; stamens) 

 lophanthum {lophos, a crest, anthos, a flower) ; itfyrtaceae iliyrteas. An up- 

 right, bushy, evergreen shrub, with straw-coloured flowers in a spike, with 

 the branch lengthening out beyond. — Grevillea rosmarinifolia ; Protedcece 

 An upright, bushy, evergreen shrub, with flowers in terminal racemes, 

 blush-coloured, or pale red, but reddish before expansion, and the colour 

 finest when most exposed to the air. — Davallia gibberosa, Gibbous 

 Hare's foot Fern. An elegant fern, with the leaves much cut, and so hardy 

 as only to require the protection of a frame in winter. — Cassia Barclaycma; 

 Leguminosae Caesalpine^e. Cassieae. A handsome, dwarf, evergreen, soft- 

 wooded, branching shrub, with deep golden yellow flowers great part of 



