336 Catalogue of Botanical Works. 



H. frasilien'se, slender, yellow flowers in autumn, frame cuttings ; C. incar- 



nus, shrubby, large purple flowers, curious and showy. 



Flora Australasica ; or the Plants of New Holland and the South Sea Islands. 



By Robert Sweet, F.L.S. In 8vo. Numbers Monthly. 5s. each ; a Volume 



to contain 25 Numbers. 



Mr. Sweet is so generally known as an accurate and skilful botanist and 

 cultivator, that any work by him is certain of being well received by the 

 public. The department of exotic vegetation on which he has now entered 

 is one of the highest interest ; it belongs to the opposite part of the globe, 

 and has an aspect of singularity and beauty peculiar to itself. The greatest 

 part of the plants which he will describe will consist of evergreen free- 

 flowering shrubs, handsome in every stage of their growth ; sometimes 

 singular in foliage ; generally elegant in form ; curiously beautiful, rich, or 

 brilliant, when in flower ; and the flowers in many cases are highly odori- 

 ferous. Most of these plants are more hardy than natives of the Cape ; 

 the whole may be kept in a sunk pit in a dry soil ; or if in a wet soil with 

 hollow walls and a hollow bottom, well covered in severe weather ; and 

 Mr. Sweet observes, that " many of them will succeed in the open border 

 by the side of a wall, to be slightly covered in winter, and probably with- 

 out any covering in the more southern counties." Their being evergreen, 

 handsome in every stage of their growth, so hardy as not to require fire 

 heat, and at the same time singular and rare, are circumstances which 

 place them in the highest class of greenhouse or conservatory plants. 



No. I. to be published in June, contains 



1. Coyycb'u pulchella, 8 and 1, and Rutaceas Diosmeas. A handsome 

 growing erect bushy shrub, thickly clothed with leaves, and scarlet tubular 

 flowers ; from Kangaroo Island, on the S. E. coast of New Holland, in 1824, 

 " by Mr. William Baxter, C.M.H.S., the indefatigable collector of F. Hench- 

 man, Esq. F.L.S. H.S., and raised in the nursery of Mr. J. Mackay, F.L.S. H.S., 

 at Clapton." Flowers the greater part of the year ; light turfy loam, peat, 

 and sand ; very hardy, and believed capable of enduring our winters if 

 planted by the side of a wall in a south aspect. 



2. Plagiolobium chorizemaefolium, 17 and 10, and Legumindsae Papilion- 

 aceae, an erect shrub, crowdedjwith prickly leaves, and profuse in deep blue 

 pea blossoms. From New Holland, and raised at Clapton as before. The. 

 generic name is given by Mr. Sweet, and composed of the Greek words 

 plagios, transverse, and lobos, a pod. 



5. Dryandra longifolia, 4 and 1, and Proteaceae; a stout handsome ever- 

 green shrub, with leaves remarkable for their singularity and elegance," and 

 terminal flowers consisting of a close brush-like bunch of stamens with 

 yellow anthers. From Lewin's Land, in 1 805, figured from the Bristol 

 nursery of Mr. Miller. 



4. Epacris impress'a, 5 and 1, and Epacridese; an elegant, upright, slender- 

 branched shrub, like a heath on a large scale, profuse in tubular flowers of 

 a fine lake colour. From Van Diemen's Land, by Baxter, and raised at the 

 Clapton nursery. Light sandy peat well drained. Generic name from epi, 

 upon, and akros, the summit, from inhabiting the tops of mountains. 



The Botanic Garden. By B. Maund. In small 4to. Numbers Monthly. 



Is. 6d. 



No. XXV II. for March, contains 

 105 to 108. — Atropa belladonna, Polygonum divaricatum, Eupatorium 

 maculatum, Dianthus hispanicus. 



No. XXVIII. for April, contains 

 109 to 112. — Solanum dulcamara, Daphne Tarton-raira, Fumaria lutea, 

 Lilium canadense. 



