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J. H. Lance, Esq. It has been introduced, but is now lost. (See Floricul- 

 tural Notices.) Dr. Lindley's figure is truly splendid ; the general appearance 

 is " very like the Spread Eagle plant," which has not yet flowered in Britain, 

 and which, Dr. Lindley adds, "may be a Schomburgkia. Plate 14. is Cymbi- 

 dium elegans, a native of Nepal, figured from a drawing belonging to the East 

 India Company, and " corrected from dried specimens." The leaves are from 

 1^ to 2 ft. long, rising from a broad fleshy base or bulb. The flower-scape is 

 about 18 in. long, pendulous ; and the flowers are pale, yellow, nodding, and 

 forming a close raceme. Plate 15. is Aerides affine, a native of Sylhet, and 

 figured from a drawing in the possession of the East India Company, " assisted 

 by dried specimens." It has flowered in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. 

 (See Floricultural Notices, p. 138.) 



Part IV. contains: — Plate 16. Cycnoches chlorochilon, which will be 

 found in our Floricultural Notices. Plate 17. Saccolabium ampullaceum, 

 found on trees in the forests of Sylhet, which Dr. Lindley has described 

 from Dr. Wallich's MS., is the copy of a drawing belonging to the East 

 India Company. The stem is short and simple ; the leaves distichous, thick, 

 and spotted with purple on both sides (which is not, however, shown in the 

 plate), and the flowers are in axillary racemes, much shorter than the leaves, 

 and of a deep rose-colour. Plate 18. Dendrobium caerulescens. (See Flori- 

 cultural Notices, p. 137.) Plate 19. Camarotis purpurea, a beautiful and graceful 

 climbing plant, with fragrant flowers, from the forests of Svlhet, figured from 

 drawings belonging to the East India Company. The leaves are linear and 

 coriaceous; the stem is two-edged, and the racemes of flowers straggling, 

 ascending sometimes twice as long as the leaves ; sometimes much shorter. 

 Plate 20. Stanhopea Wards'?, a splendid plant, which, being in cultivation at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's, Mr. Low's, and in the garden of Mr. Barker of Bir- 

 mingham, is included in our Floricultural Notices, p. 136. From examining the 

 anatomical structure of this species, Dr. Lindley has arrived at the conclusion 

 " that the varying tints of colour which are found in flowers are not produced 

 by colours proper to the tissue of which they are composed, or by a confused 

 mixture of colouring matter below the surface, but are caused by different 

 colours, separately deposited in separate cells, which are themselves uniformly 

 colourless." 



Art. II. Elenchns Plantarum novarum minusque cognitarum quas 

 in Itinere Hispanico legit Edmundus Boissier. Geneva, 1838. 



This is the forerunner of a more ample and complete work, which the author 

 has promised to give with illustrations, &c, of the results obtained by him in 

 the course of four months and a half, which were spent in examining the 

 botanical riches of the country between Gibraltar, the Sierra Nevada, and the 

 shores of the Mediterranean ; the diversified soil and elevation of which, 

 ranging from the climate of Siberia to one nearly approaching that of the 

 tropics, afford an ample and comparatively little explored field to the 

 botanist. 



This little list contains 200 species which the author considers to be new ; 

 out of more than 1800 collected by him, or seen in the herbals of native 

 botanists who had studied in the same district. Roxas de San Clemente, a 

 Spanish botanist, spent several years in exploring the same country, but 

 the results of his indefatigable labours are locked up at Madrid ; and, imperfect 

 as we conceive the present work must necessarily be, it will be a valuable 

 addition to our knowledge of the botany of Europe. 



The author commenced his tour at Motril, a semi- African town at the very 

 foot of the Sierra Nevada, near which the principal stream descends by a 

 precipitous course to the Mediterranean. It is in the middle of the " Tierra 



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