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Europe. Under the patronage and protection of the East India Company, 

 and by the indefatigable exertions of Dr. Wallich, the Flora of India has 

 been exjjlored to a degree which could never have been anticipated in the 

 present generation ; and the brilliant results of these researches have not 

 been left to perish in a few private gardens, or to moulder in the garrets 

 of inaccessible and unarranged museums. On the contrary, enormous con- 

 tributions have been making for years ; not only all England, but the hot- 

 houses of the most remote gardens of Europe, have been supplied with the 

 vegetable wealth of India ; and the best part of the Flora of Nepal will soon 

 be as well known in the flower-gardens of English cottagers, as to the Ne- 

 palese themselves. Of dried plants, unheard of multitudes are destined by 

 the Company for distribution, under the direction of Dr. Wallich, among 

 the public and private collections both of England and of Europe. In 

 short, the obligations imposed upon us by these acts of truly Oriental muni- 

 ficence are of such a nature, that it has become the bounden duty of all 

 men, who have the interests of science and of civilisation at heart, to take 

 every opportunity of expressing the deep sense, which they cannot but feel, 

 of measures which so redound to the honour and glory of the Com- 

 pany.^' 



Hosta caerulea; Terben^ceae. A beautiful stove shrub with blue 

 flowers, native of South America and the West Indies, from Syon 

 gardens. — iSalvia involucrata; Labiatae. A very handsome plant from 

 Mexico, a lovely border flower during the 

 autumn months, and in the conservatory the 

 greater part of the summer. Propagated by cut- 

 tings. From Tate's nursery in Sloane Street. 



— Maxillaria ciliata ; Orchldeae § NkndecB. 

 (,Jig.S5.) The most curious of the Maxillaria 

 tribe. " The bulbs {fig. 3.5. a), as they are 

 improperly but commonly called, of this tribe 

 of Orchideae are, in fact, stems in a particular 

 state. Botanists have as yet given no definite 

 name to them, wherefore we propose hereafter 

 to distinguish them by the denomination of 

 pseudo-bidbi." — i^jrus angustifolia. A hand- 

 some hardy sub-evergreen shrub, not often 

 found in cultivation, and yet deserving to be 

 known much more than many of greater note. 

 Perfectly hardy, and propagated by grafting upon the common crab stock. 



— Paeomcr hjbrida; iJanunculacese. The most beautiful of the cut-leaved 

 paeonies, from all w^hich it differs strikingly in the deeper red of its 

 flowers. The study of the paeonies, in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, "has now made it evident that it is a genuine species. At least we 

 have Mr. Sabine's authority to say that such is his opinion." — Hedychium 

 coccineum ; Scitam.ineae. " Widely different from all the other species, by 

 the deep red colour of its flowers, and perfectly spear-shaped leaves." 



No. XII. for February, contains 

 1210 to 1216.-— Calathea grandifolia. — Chelone nemorosa. Inter- 

 mediate between Pentstemon and Chelone. " A native of mountain 

 woods, near springs and rivulets, in the north-west part of North America, 

 where it was discovered by Mr. Douglas, flowering from July to September. 

 It was raised from seeds in the garden of the Horticultural Society in 1827, 

 and flowered in July and August, 1828." It prefers a rich vegetable 

 mould, in a situation not too much exposed to the sun, — Ktempferia Ros- 

 coedna. Dedicated by Dr. Wallich to his " highly revered friend William 

 Roscoe, Esq., of Liverpool, whose splendid monograph of the beautiful, 



