600 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



t. 366., where this remark is offered : — " Its habit being at first unknown, 

 it was soon lost ; but in these days of research in every quarter of the 

 globe, such losses in general meet speedy reparation. To the personal 

 exertions, and also the pecuniary liberality, of men of science and fortune, 

 these advantages are principally owing. Many botanists, however, in 

 foreign countries are now wholly or partly employed by English nursery- 

 men to send new and rare plants to England ; therefore every customer 

 of the nurseryman is an individual subscriber to the great object of explor- 

 ing remote corners of the globe." 



Leguminbsce § Mimbsece. Acacia cinerascens Sieber, an arboreous species, 

 with glaucous longish leaves, and cylindrical pendent spikes of yellow 

 flowers, is figured in the Bot. Mag. for August ; where are presented, from 

 the pen of that zealous and intelligent naturalist and traveller, Mr. Allan 

 Cunningham, the following notices on the distribution of the genus vfcacia 

 over the continent of Australia. The genus Acacia " inhabits not only 

 the southern coasts, but all parts of the interior that have hitherto been 

 explored. Wherever I landed, during my four and a half years' voyage with 

 Captain King, an Jcacia was sure to welcome me on my landing, and the 

 last plant on which the eye rested, on those inhospitable steppes to which 

 Mr. Oxley traced the Lachlan River, in 1827 (five hundred miles inland 

 from Sydney), was my Jcacia stenophylla, a curious slender tree, 20 ft. in 

 height, with leaves [phyllodia] from 12 to 15 in. in length." 



2837 ^CATIA \ Jvlibrlssinte. 



pentadenia Lindl. 5-glanded-Zw& *i \ | or 5 ap Y N.Holl.s.w.c. 1830 C p Bot. reg. 1521 



Raised by Mr. Knight. If not equal to such species as A. pube'scens 

 in the beauty of its blossoms, it is perhaps superior to them in the graceful 

 character of its foliage. Professor Lindley names it, in English, the Fern- 

 leaved Acacia. " The little glands that are seated upon the petiole, be- 

 tween each pair of pinna?, are of a highly curious character ; they have the 

 form of a minute cup, and seem as if they were destined to expose some 

 portion of the inner substance of the petiole to the action of air or light; 

 but for what purpose we are ignorant. One could almost fancy an analogy 

 between the origin of these and of the shields of lichens." (Bot. Reg., 

 Aug.) 



CXV. Di6sme<E. 



Eriostemon 6uxifolius is figured in the Bot. Cab. for August, t. 1831., 

 and thus excellently described : — " It is an exceedingly pretty plant, 

 growing upright, with many short rigid branches, and producing its elegant 

 flowers in April and May. It is necessary to keep it constantly in the 

 green-house. It will increase by cuttings slowly, and should be potted in 

 sandy peat earth." Eriostemon myoporoides is figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine for September, whence we are able to present corrections to the 

 details in Hort. Brit. p. 169. 

 +10930 myoporoides Z><?c. Myoporum-like at | \\ox 3 sp W N.HolL 1823 C s.p.l Bot. mag. 3180 



CXXXI. Passiftbrea;. 



1925. TACSO^NIA, 

 +28452 pinnatistipula J. pinnate-stip. |_ □ or 30 sp fa.Ro Chile 1828 C p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l56 



This plant is already in Loudon's Hort. Brit. (p. 485.), but with 

 imperfect details. From Passiflora, Tacsbnia is, according to Mr. Sweet, 

 principally distinguished by the long tube of its perianthium. Mr. Sweet's 

 figure of this elegant plant is derived from the choice collection of Mrs. Mar- 

 ryat, at Wimbledon, where the plant has blossomed two years successively, 

 and this year has nearly filled the conservatory. " Its showy blossoms, which 

 it produces in abundance, claim for it a place in every collection. It is a 

 native of Talcahuano and Valparaiso in Chile ; and " Mr. Sweet is " in- 

 clined to think, that, in favourable situations, it will prove quite as hardy 

 as the common passion flower, Passiflora caerulea." The plant abounds in 

 downiness. (Flower-Garden, August.) 



