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ation in the open air. — Desmodium nutans ; Legiiminosae. " A low slen- 

 der shrub, much branched, with scattered leaves and purple flowers," from 

 the botanic garden of Calcutta, in 1823, by Dr. Macwhirter. — Passiflora 

 •eapsularis ; Passifloreae. A climbing triangular-stemmed plant, with alter- 

 nate remote leaves divided from below the middle, and greenish flowers. 

 It was received by Dr. Graham from the West Indies. 



No. XXIV. for December, co'iitains 

 2069 to 2075. — Artocarpus incisa j f/rticeae. "A tree from 50 to 40 ft. 

 high, with a diameter of trunk from 1 ft. to li ft., bearing a large head of 

 many, spreading, fragile branches, and abounding in every part with a vis- 

 cid, milky juice." The leaves are from 1 to even 3 ft. in length, and often 

 1| ft. broad. They are alternate, ovate, but cuneate, and entire at the 

 base. It was seen abundantly in the Ladrone Islands by Dampier, who 

 says that the fruit is as big as a penny loaf, when wheat is at 5s. the 

 bushel. It is eaten by the natives of Guam, who gather it when fully 

 grown, and while it is green and hard ; they then bake it in an oven, and 

 scrape off the outside black crust, when there remains a tender thin crust; the 

 inside consists entirely of a fine substance, soft, tender, and white, resembling 

 the crumb of a loaf. — Salvia involucrata; Labiatae. This plant makes a 

 brilliant appearance planted in a border, where it has attained a height of 

 from 12 to 14 ft., and scents something like the common sage. The leaves 

 are quite glabrous, large, and cordate-ovate; the flowers are pinkish, and 

 form a rather handsome thyrsus. — ffi^nothera virainea; Onagrariae. A 

 hardy, annual, erect-stemmed plant, with glaucous entire leaves, from 5 

 to 4 in. long ; the flowers of a lilac colour, and sessile in the axils of the 

 superior leaves. The plants will blossom throughout the summer, if the seeds 

 be sown in the open border in spring. From the interior of Northern 

 -California, by Mr. David Douglas. — Calceolaria arachnoidea; Scrophu- 

 larinae. This plant has been hitherto kept in the green-house ; it has a 

 -herbaceous, round, much branched stem, with spreading opposite branches, 

 and hngulate opposite leaves, with purple flowers. The seeds were collected 

 by Dr. Gillies in Chile. — Didiscus caeruleus; UmbelliferEe. An annual' 

 rooted terete-stemmed plant from New Holland, with blue flowers ; the 

 fruit is between orbicular and reniform, quite flat, and granulated on the 

 surface ; the seeds are pendent and obovate. 



No. XXV. for Jamiary, 1829, cotdains 

 2876 to 2883. — Calceolaria connata; Scrophularinee. Seeds received 

 in 1827 from M. Hogan, Esq.," consul of the United States at Valparaiso. 

 Stems herbaceous, and the blossoms produced abundantly during the whole 

 summer and autumn, on a cool shelf in a green-house. — Brodiae'a grandi- 

 flora ; i^iemerocallidese. (fg. 26.) This beautiful purpHsh-blue flowered 

 plant was found by Mr. Menzies, in 1792, in New 

 Georgia, and, subsequently, by Mr. Douglas and 

 Dr. Sconler, throughout the dry plains west of the 

 Rocky Mountains. The bulbs introduced to this'^ 

 country have flowered in the open border, in peat 

 soil, in July. — Brassavola tuberculata; Orchldese. 

 This plant, which bears yellow flowers, resembles, 

 in habit, B. cucullata, and is a native of the 

 trunks of trees in rocky places, at the entrance of 

 Bontafogo Bay. It produced flowers in July, 1828. 

 — Abronia mellifera; Nyctagineae. The white 

 blossoms of this plant, which is a native of CaH- 

 ■fornia, have a powerful honey-like smell in the 

 evening. It flowers in sandy peat, and may soon 

 form a valuable addition to our flower borders 

 ' — Horkeh'a congesta ; i^osaceae. A hardy white 



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