supplementary to the Encyc. of Plants mid Hort. Brit, 71 



all their flowers male, and others all female. "According to Profes- 

 sor Zuccarini all the small-flowered Mexican species, with enclosed 

 stamens, are polygamous." (Bot. Beg., Dec. ; and Fl. Cab., Jan.) 



Melastomacece. 



+ Medinilla erythrophylla Lindl. A small shrub, with bright 

 rose coloured flowers, arranged in axillary cymes. The leaves 

 are of a deep red when young, but they become of a bright 

 green when old. This rare and beautiful plant was sent home 

 from India by Mr. Gibson. (B. M. B., Nov., No. 158.) 



Alangiaceae. 



3341. MA'RLEA, 28207 begoni&fblia Roxb., Bot. Reg. 2d ser. 61. 



This tree, which is a native of Sylhet, has been in the country 

 many j^ears, for Dr. Lindley mentions that he has a specimen of 

 it, which was dried in the Cambridge Botanic Garden by Donn 

 in 1805, though it has "not found its way before into any work 

 containing figures of plants." (Bot. Beg., Nov.) 



Qactece. 



3358. MELOCA'CTUS depressa Hook., flattened. 



Synonymes : Cactus 12513 depressa Dec, Echinocactus depressa Lh Sf 0. 



" This is one of the few Cactese which have rewarded Mr. 

 Gardener's researches in the vicinity of Pernambuco ; " from 

 which place several specimens of this species " were sent to 

 Woburn Abbey, and to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The 

 flower is at present unknown, probably it is small and red, like 

 what we know of other Melocacti ; but they had blossomed 

 freely previous to their having been embarked ; and after their 

 arrival copious seed-vessels were produced, long, and of a deli- 

 cate, transparent rose colour, which, rising in a circle considerably 

 above the crown of red aculei, presented an appearance perhaps 

 more striking than the flowers themselves." (Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



Saxifragdcece. 



ACROPHY'LLUM venbsum Benth., Bot. No. 95. 

 Synonyme .' Weinmanrwa ven&sa Fl. Cab. 



Caprifolidcea?. 



626. LEYCESTE^RZJ 5243 formbsa Wall.; Bot. Reg. 1839,2.; and Bot. Mag. t.3699. See also Arb. Brit. 

 fig. 827.j and Gard. Mag. xiii. fig. 1. 



By the figure of this plant in the Botanic Begister for January, 

 1839, the flowers appear to have crimson bracteas, instead of 

 purple ones, as described in our Arboretum Britannicum, vol. ii. 

 p. 1060. From the specimen raised in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, from seeds sent there by Dr. Royle, it does not appear 

 so ornamental as it was expected to be ; but it is hardy, having 

 sustained the severe cold of 1837-8 without protection. (Bot. 

 Beg., Jan.) A plant in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden flowered 

 in July, 1838, in moderate heat; and according to the figure in 

 the Botanical Magazine, with larger leaves, but paler bracteas, 

 than in the Horticultural Society's Garden. (Bot. Mag., Jan.) Dr. 

 Lindley says : — " Although not so handsome as was anticipated, 



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