104i Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



Art. TV. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of neiv Plants, and 

 of old Plants of Interest, supplementary to the latest Editions of 

 the " Encyclopaedia of Plants," and of the " Hortus Britannicus.'* 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine ; each monthly Number containing eight plates j 

 3s. Qd. coloured, Ss. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edwards's Botanical Register; each monthly Number containing eight 

 plates; 4s. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by John Lindley, F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the London Universit}'. 



Sweet's British Floiuer-Garden ; each monthly Number containing four 

 plates ; 3s. coloured, 2s. 3(/. plain. Edited by David Don, Esq., Libra- 

 rian to the Linnaean Society. 



Loddiges's Botanical Cabinet; each monthly Number containing ten plates; 

 5s. coloured, 2s. 6d. partly coloured. Edited by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Maund's Botanic Garden; each monthly Number containing one plate, 

 bearing pictures of four plants ; Is. Qd. coloured and large paper. Is. small 

 paper. Edited by Benjamin Maund, F.L.S. 



Dicotyledonous Polvpetalous Plants. 

 XLVI. CdctecE. 



1472. CE^REUS. 



setbsus B. C. bristled ;?n l_J or i au Pk Brazil 1829. C It.l Bot. cab. I8S7 



" It has a trailing stem, rooting as it goes, for two or three feet in length. 

 Its flowers are readily produced, and usually about the month of August." 

 (Bot. Cab., Jan. 1833.) 



Mr. Dennis has raised a number of seedling cereuses ; and, as many of 

 them are from hybridised seeds, some interesting varieties are expected, 

 Mr. Dennis possesses an interesting-looking kind, but not of his own 

 raising, named Cereus oxypetalus. 



LI. Loase^. 



1478. MENTZE^L/^. 

 12dS7«! hispida Willd. hispid £ ^ or IJ ap Y Peru 1831. S s.l Bot. riiag. 3205 



This is an interesting plant ; but its flowers, of a rich yellow colour, and 

 exceeding in outline the size of a shilling, seem not numerously produced. 

 Dr. Hooker conceives that this may be distinct from the M. aspera of 

 Linnaeus. The powdered roots of some species of this genus are violently 

 purgative, and in consequence used medicinally. (Bot. Mag,, Dec.) 



LVI. Mi/rtdcece. 



2179. MELALEtPCA. 

 19603a? Frasen' Hook Eraser's as l_1 or li ... Pa.Ro N.S.W. 1829. C p.l Bot. mag. 3210 



" A lowly, much-branched shrub, with many short opposite or subver- 

 ticillate branches, bearing generally, towards their extremities, and crowd- 

 edly, linear awl-shaped leaves. Flowers collected into a spike, of a broadly 

 oval or subglobose outline, at the extremity of the branches, only 

 terminated by two or three shoots of the current year's growth." Mr, 

 Fraser, late colonial botanist at Sydney, sent it to the Glasgow garden, 

 named M. genistifolia, but it is very different from the species so named by 

 Smith. M. Fraseri is a pretty species. (Bot. Mag., Jan. 1833.) 



LXXII. Aristolockice. 



374. ^RISTOLO'CHIA. 

 22849a; cymbifera Mart. boat-^iurf. £. □ or 20 jl.au Y.P St.Paul 1829. C p.l Bot. reg. 1543 



. A most remarkable species, in the style of A. labiosa. The leaves, by 



the one figured, emulate in size those of the hardy A. sipho ; and the 



flower, in its size, and the length of its lip, exceeds that of A. labiosa. Its 



introduction to England was by a seed-vessel, sent from South America 



by INIi-. Parish to Mrs. Hawkins, of Bignor Park, about five years ago. 



