Floricultaral and Botanical Notices. 583 



Art. II. Floriadtural and Botanical Notices of newly introduced 

 Plants, and. of Plants of Interest previously in our Gardens, supple- 

 mentary to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopedia of Plants" 

 and of the " Horius Britannicus" 



Curtis 's Botanical Magazine ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight Plates; 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, 

 King's Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edwards's Botanical Register ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates; 4s. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindley, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 



Sweet's British Flower-Garden ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four plates ; 3s. coloured, 2s. 3d. plain. Edited by David Don, 

 Esq., Librarian to the Linnaean Society. 



" The indefatigable Drummond, the assistant naturalist in Capt. 

 Sir John Franklin's overland expedition, bids fair to make as 

 valuable botanical collections in the extreme southern territories 

 of the United States as he did in the British possessions in 

 North America. From Louisiana, whence, among other inter- 

 esting plants, he has added to our gardens the rare Nuttallz'a 

 Papaver and Sarracem'a psittacina, he has entered the province 

 of Texas ; and from the embouchure of the Rio Brazos, and 

 from San Felipe de Austin in the interior, he has sent very 

 valuable despatches, both of the animal and vegetable produc- 

 tions." (Dr. Hooker, in Bot. Mag., t. 3361., Nov. 183L) 



POLYPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



XV. Magnoliaceee. 



3488. TALAU'MA. (The vernacular name of the South American species.) 13.6. Sp. 3. — 



Cand611« Blume Decandolle's St □ fra 15 f.mr Crea.Taw Java 1827. L p.l Bot. reg. 1709 

 MagnbU'a odcrati'ssima Beinwardt. 



See p. 565. Its flowers perfume the air with so delicious an 

 odour, that the very Javanese cultivate it. In Europe it is a 

 tender stove plant, increased only by inarching upon Magnolz'a 

 (Talauma Blume) pumila, or by layers, or by having a pot of 

 earth fastened round a wounded branch. (Bot. Reg., Nov.) 



" Dr. Blume has ascertained Magnolia ptmiila to be also a Talafima." (Bot. Beg., Nov.) 



The blossoms of this compact little evergreen shrub are also 

 very fragrant : they are rather freely produced in our stoves. 

 XXVI. BombdcecB. 



2030. ERIODE'NDRON 18146 anfractubsum 



2 carib^um Hook. Caribbean ^ □ tm 70 Crea.R W. Indies 1739. S p.l Bot. mag. 3360 

 E. cariba3 N um Hort. Brit. No. 18148. 



A tree, a native of the West Indies ; but the interesting figures 

 and description of it published (Bot. Mag., Nov.) have been 

 prepared from living plants of it cultivated in Madeira. Here 

 it thrives ; and is esteemed a very interesting object, in its straight 

 slender stem clear of branches to a considerable height, its 

 spreading head of nearly horizontal branches, its large digitate 



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