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of the remedies proposed by the writers, and must be forwarded to the 

 secretary of the Entomological Society, No. 17. Old Bond Street, London, 

 with fictitious signatures, on or before the fourth Monday in January, 1838; 

 when they will be referred to a committee, to stand upon their respective 

 merits; after which, with the permission of the writers, both the prize essay, 

 and any others of value, will be published. The essays must be respectively 

 accompanied by a sealed letter, indorsed with the fictitious signature adopted 

 by each author, and enclosing the real name of the writer. — J. O. IV. 



Victoria regulis. — This is the name given, by permission of Her Majesty, to 

 a new plant allied to the water lily, discovered in the river Berbice, in Janu- 

 ary, 1837, by Dr. Robert H. Schomburgh. A description of it was read at a 

 meeting of the Botanical Society, held September 7., by which it appears that 

 the leaves are orbiculate, from 5 ft. to 6 ft. in diameter, bright green above, 

 and bright crimson below. The stem of the flower is 1 in. thick, and the 

 flower itself is 13 in. in diameter, consisting of many hundred petals, passing 

 in alternate tints from pure white to rose and pink. When the flower first 

 opens, it is white, with pink in the middle, which spreads over the whole 

 flower as it advances in age; and the second day it is generally found of a 

 pink colour. The flower is sweet-scented, and, like the genera Ndumbiuni, 

 iVymphse^a, &c., it possesses a fleshy disk, with the petals and stamens passing 

 gradually into each other. {Athencsuvi, Sept. 9. p. 661.) [We hope this 

 splendid plant will soon be introduced; and that an aquarium worthy of Her 

 Majesty, and of the present advanced state of horticultural science, will be 

 formed in the Botanic Garden at Kew for ils reception. — Cond.'\ 



Eucalyptus aljniia. — Enclosed, I s;nd you a specimen of Eucalyptus 

 alpina, gathered from a plant which has had no protection this winter. It 

 has been planted out only one year (it is now three years from the seed), and 

 is 2 ft. high. It appears to be of a slower growth than any other species that 

 I am acquainted with, and is of a bushy compact habit, of which the specimen 

 sent will give some idea, sending out laterals at almost every joint. I think 

 I mentioned before, that it was sent me by James Backhouse, from Van 

 Diemen's Land, who describes it as a tree growing on the highest parts of 

 Mount Wellington, v.'here the climate is very similar to that of England. 

 Fredericle Maclde. Norwich Nursery, May 4. 1837. 



Pdvia macroatachys {fig. 122.) at tlie Vicarage, RicJemansworth.'is 16 ft. in 

 height, and consists of numerous branches from the same root, overhanging a 

 space of 29 square yards. I purchased it 

 about twenty-eight years ago, when the 

 plants of the late Emperor Thelluson 

 Woodford, Esq , of botanical celebrity, 

 were disposed of on his quitting Spring- 

 well Place, in this neighbourhood. It 

 stands within a few yarcls of a rivulet, in 

 a dark porous soil, on a bed of fine 

 gravel, about 2 ft. below the surface ; and 

 which is very evidently such a soil as suits 

 it. I have given numerous layers and 

 suckers to different friends ; but, though 

 many of them have flourished, none have 

 done so in a degree equal to that of the 

 parent plant. — Edward Hodgson. [This 

 appears to be the largest plant of Pavfa 

 macrostachys in England; the next largest is that at White Knights, 15ft. 

 high. See Arb. Brit., p. 474., where, among other information, it is stated 

 that the fruit of this plant, in America, is eaten boiled, or roasted. — Cond.} 



SCOTLAND. 



Allanton ParJi, the seat of the late Sir Henry Steuart, author of the Prac- 

 tical Planter, is now in the possession of Sir Henry's daughter, Lady Mac- 



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