560 Botanical Register. 



stain. From Canada to the Glasgow botanic garden, by Mr. Cleghorn ['? an 

 old friend of ours]. — *Eutoca sericea ; Hydrophyllea?. A pretty and per- 

 fectly hardy perennial alpine, from the Rocky Mountains, in North America, 

 by Mr. Drummond. 



No. XLIV. for August, contains 

 3004 to 3010. — Terminalia Catdppa ; CombretaeeEe. A tree of India, 

 bearing a drupe, containing a nut, the kernel of which resembles that of 

 an almond or filbert in flavour, and yields an oil equal to that of the olive. 

 The fruit is abundantly eaten in India. — Didymocarpus Rexra. From 

 Southern Africa, by Mr. Bowie, to Kew. — Crotalaria ovalis. — Morican- 

 dia arvensis. " The Glasgow botanic garden is indebted for the possession 

 of this plant to Messrs. Young of Epsom, whose choice collection of 

 plants is only equalled by the liberality with which they distribute them 

 wherever they can be of real service to science, and who may justly be 

 ranked among the first and most zealous cultivators in the kingdom." — 

 Ribes cereum. A much branched compact twiggy shrub, growing from 

 4 ft. to 6 ft. high, on the banks of the Columbia, whence it was intro- 

 duced to the Horticultural Society by Mr. David Douglas. — .Ranunculus 

 millefoliatus. A native of Italy, in the north of Africa, and seeds of it 

 were lately sent to the Glasgow botanic garden. — *Phrynium coloratum ; 

 Canneae. Introduced from Brazil by Richard Harrison, Esq., and flowered 

 in Lord Milton's stove in April last. 



No. XL V. for September, contains 

 301 1 to 3017. — *Bignom<2 grandifolia. One of the handsomest of stove 

 climbers. — *Lobelk KrausszV. A stove plant, of moderate beauty, from 

 Dominica, in 1828. — *Encyclia patens. A stove epiphyte, from Rio de 

 Janeiro to the rich collection at Aigburgh. — *Vanguiera velutina; Ru- 

 biaceaj. A stove shrub, from Madagascar, of very little beauty. — *Cero- 

 pegia elegans ; Asclepv&decz. A most elegant stove twiner, showing its 

 beautiful greenish white flowers, thickly spotted with purple, in January. 

 It was sent to the Kew garden, by Dr. Wallich, in 1828. — *Brachystelma 

 crispum ; Asclepihdece, A most elegant bulb, sent from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, by Mr. Bowie, to the select collection of Mr. Neill, at Cannon 

 Mills. — *Anthericum bulbosum. A handsome yellow-flowered Antheri- 

 curn, from New South Wales. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindlej', F.R.S. L.S. &c. 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. Li 8vo Numbers, monthly. 

 4s. coloured. 



No. IV. for June, contains 



1327 to 1334. — Anbna (inenona or manoa, Malayan names) /aurifolia. 

 A small tree, from the islands of the Caribean Sea, flowering in August ; 

 blossoms large, of a deep orange ; foliage handsome ; fruit of no value. — 

 Mammillaria pulchra. — *ilfhnulus propinquus. — *Cactus (subgen. Epi- 

 phyllum) Ackermanm. From Mexico, by Mr. George Ackermann, in com- 

 pliment to whom it was named by Mr. Haworth. It is remarkable, " that 

 about the same time that Mr. Tate's imported plant blossomed, our artist 

 was summoned by Mr. Mackay to make a drawing of a seedling raised by 

 Mr. Smith, gardener to Lord Liverpool, at Combe Wood, which proved so 

 similar to this as to give rise to doubts as to the originality of the species. 

 We understand that the flower of this seedling is rather larger, and its colour 

 deeper red than that of the Mexican plant. It was first brought into bloom by 

 John Brampton, Esq., of Stoke Newington, a gentleman who cultivates a 

 small but very select collection of stove and green-house plants." The young 



