Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 237 



Art. IV. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of new Plants, and of 

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

 " Encyclopedia of Plants," and of the " Hortus Britannicus." 



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



3«. 6c?. coloured, 3s. 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 Dr. Lindley, F.R.S., Professor of Botany 



in the London University. 

 Swee£ s British Floiver-Garden ; each monthly Number containing four plates; 



3s. coloured, 2s. 3d. plain. Edited by David Don, Esq., Librarian to the 



Linnaean Society. 



Dicotyledonous Polypetalous Plants. 



IX. Cruciferw. 



1827a. STREPTA'NTHUS Nut. (Streptos, twisted, anthos, flower ; claws of petals twisted.) 



15. 2. Sp. 2. — 

 obtusifblius Hook, blunt-lfd. O or 1| au.s Ro Arkansa 1833. L s.l Bot. mag. 3317 



A pretty plant, much resembling Moricandia arvensis. The stem is simple 

 or branched ; the leaves are glaucous, elliptic, stem-clasping. The branches 

 terminate in long racemes of numerous flowers ; whose petals are of a fine 

 rose colour, with a very deep lake-coloured spot at the base of each limb. A 

 second species, named S. maculatus, is known in America ; but we are not 

 informed that this has yet been introduced to Britain. {Bot. Mag., April.) 



XLVI. Cdctece. 



1472. CE'REUS. "• [of bot. i. 49. with a figure 



28299a splendidus splendiA-corollaed «. i 1 spl 1 s.n S Mexico 1831. C.s.l.ru Paxton's mag. 



" Epiphyllum Hitch^nz [the name of the author of the epithet not stated], scarlet flowers, nearly 

 8 in. in' diameter " Hitchen in Gard. Mag. Feb. 1833, vol. ix. p. 114. ; Epiph.yllum splendidum 

 Paxton in his Magazine of Botany, i. 49., with a coloured figure, April, 1834. 



Its flower, in size and splendour, far surpasses the flower of any other 

 species or variety at present known. We obtained it from Mr. Hitchen's 

 celebrated collection of succulent plants, while this collection was in the 

 possession of Mr. Hitchen ; who has since sold it to Mr. Frederick Mackie, 

 nurseryman, Norwich [see p. 63.]. Its flowers were stated to be 10 in. broad ; 

 which we feel not the shadow of a doubt about, as ours, though [produced 

 by] a very small plant, in October, 1833, measured, when in full blow, 8 in. in 

 diameter. Neither the C. speciosissimus, nor even the C. grandiflorus, will 

 bear a comparison with it in size of flower. Its flower is entirely destitute 

 of that beautiful purple so characteristic of the flowers of the C. speciosissi- 

 mus ; and has something of an orange colour, all the petals being nearly 

 transparent. In point of the shape of the flower, and in some other respects, 

 it bears a good deal of resemblance to the C. speciosissimus. {Paxton's Ma- 

 gazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, April.) 



LXXVII. Leguminosa?. 



+2154. LABLA^VIA. (The name Lablab means, in Arabic, simply, a twining plant; and is applied 



indiscriminately to the convolvulus and many others of similar habit. I have, besides giving it 

 a Latin termination (which should, I think, be always done in the case of barbarous words 

 adopted in botanical nomenclature as generic names), also changed the 6 into v : a liberty which 

 the genius of the Arabic allows. — D.Don.) 17.4. Sp. 5. — 



19484 vulgaris as in Hort. Brit., except that the figure in Sw. Fl. Gar. 2. s. 236. is preferable to that in Bot. 

 Mag. 896. 



2 purpurea Dec. 



Ldblab purpureus G. Don in Hort. Brit. No. 19485., D61ichos purpureus Jac. 



3 albiflbra Dec. 



Ldblab bengalensis G. Don in Hort. Brit. No. 19486. ; Dolichos bengale~nsis Jac. ; and Mr. D. Don 

 teaches, in Sw. Fl. Gar. 2. s. 236. (and, in doing so, goes farther than Decandolle), that the follow- 

 ing names are but synonymes of this variety : — D61ichos albus Lour., D. Ldblab Gartner, Ldb- 

 lab nankinicus Savi, and Ldblab leucocarpus Savi. 



Labldvia vulgaris is cultivated in India, China, Egypt, and many other 

 countries of the East, and also in the West India Islands, on account of its 

 legumes, which are prepared and eaten in the manner those of kidneybeans 



