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Brown. Native of the Cape of Good Hope; blooms in the green-house in 

 July. This plant, though duly distinct, is not, for purposes of ornament, 

 preferable to Othonna wbrotanifolia. — Ureva lobata. A downy dwarf shrub, 

 flowering in the stove in July, with smallish rose-coloured blossom_s. Na- 

 tive of China and Brazil, and in the latter place is used as an emollient. 

 — Schizanthus *GrahamH, Schizanthus retusus. Two most charming 

 additions to this gay, elegant, airj^, much admii-ed genus: a fifth kind, 

 S. HookenV, is promised to be figured in a future number. Dr. Hooker 

 deems S. retusus the most beautiful of all. 



No. L. for February, contains 

 3046 to 3052. — Adamfa cyanea, Blue-6e/nVf/ Adamia ; CaprifoliaceEE 

 and Hydrangeaceas Lindley. An elegant shrub, introduced in 1829; 3 or 4 

 feet high, covered with large panicles of pale blue or pink flowers, which 

 are succeeded by an almost equally ornamental profusion of deep blue 

 berries. It is a native of barren, stony, and mountainous places near 

 Bechiaco, in Nepal. Rare; the plant from which the drawing was taken 

 flowered at Kew. — Commelin« *gracilis. Slender Commelina ; Comme- 

 linecE. A new and pretty species, described by Dr. Graham in the 

 Edinhurgh Philosophical Journal for December last as C. formosa; but 

 the Doctor has since discovered its identity with C gracilis of Ruiz and 

 Pavon. From seeds received from Mr. Cruickshanks in the spring of 1830, 

 who had gathered them in the valley of Lima. Flowered freely in the 

 green-house in July. Perennial. Propagated by cuttings. — Lodsa *incana, 

 Hoary Loasa ; Ferbenacese. A new addition to the peculiar order Lodsecs. 

 SufFruticose, low, and branching; flowers white and abundant, opening in 

 the end of summer, and through the autumn. Native of Peru ; and, with 

 us, a south-border plant. — Clerodendrum niitans. Nodding Cleroden- 

 drum. A stove shrub of great beauty, from its long pendulous panicles 

 of white flowers. Native of Silhet, on the north-east side of Bengal. — 

 Alstroemeria *acutifdlia. Acute-leaved Alstroemeria ; Amaryllif/e'<K. Stems 

 5 or 6 feet high, somewhat twining. Seeds of a bright scarlet colour. 

 Found in Mexico by Mr. Deppe> Bloomed in the stove at the botanic 

 gardens of Edinburgh and Liverpool. A great acquisition. For further 

 information, see p. 218. Sweet's British Floiuer-Garden. — Codics^tim (from 

 codebo, the Malayan name for the Croton variegatum of Linneeus) pictum, 

 T^amtedi-leaved Codiseum ; EvvphovhidcecB. The flowers of this shrub, the 

 Croton picta of our Hort. Brit., are obscure, but this deficiency is amply 

 compensated by the singularity and beauty of its foliage, which renders it 

 a most desii-able inmate of the stove, and M'hich has recommended it to the 

 inhabitants of the Molucca Islands, of which it is a native, and where they 

 cultivate it around their houses, and for the purpose of fences, decorating 

 their triumphal arches with its leaves, and strewing them about on occa- 

 sions of festivity. — Banksz'a speciosa. Handsome Banksia ; Vxotedce<s. 

 Leaves 1a ft. long, li in. broad. Spilies or heads of flowers 4i in. long, 

 and 31 broad. Shrub above 5 ft. high, blooming in the green-house in 

 October. Flowers 3'ellow. 



Edwards's Botanical Register. Continued by John Lindley, F.R.S. L.S. 



&c.. Professor of Botany in the London Universityi In 8vo Numbers, 



monthly* 4^; coloured. 



No. XI. of Vol. III. (Neiv Series') contains 



1377 to 1383, — iupinus polyphyllus *albifl6rus. The white-flowered 

 variety of the large-leaved perennial lupine, a plant so very ornamental 

 that no hardy flower garden will long be without it. It is, however, rare 

 and difficult to procure at present. We saw it finely in blossom, last 

 autumn, in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. It is perfectly hardy. 

 — Plumierk * 'Lamhentidna. A species raised from Mexican seeds, by 

 Mr. Lambert, wha lias paid much attention to this beautiful genus, and 



