396 Botanical, Floricultural, and Arbor icnltural Notices, 



green-house. The flowers were " white, about half the size of those of D. scabra, 

 lemon-scented, and arranged in copious cymes." {B. M. R., No. 49., May). 

 Loasaceae. 



2193. LOA'SA 30194 lateritia. Synonyme: Caiophora latcritia Eenth. 



The fact of the plant commonly called Lodsa lateritia belonging to 

 M. PresPs genus Caiophora, was first pointed out in Mrs. Loudon's Ladies' 

 Flower-Garden, No. iv. p. 60. ; but, as she observes, the plant is probably 

 the Caiophora punicea of Presl, which is the Blumenbachia punicea of Mr. 

 G. Don, and the Lodsa punicea of Ruiz and Pavon. 



Qactdcece. 



3359. ECHINOCA'CTUS 



+ Scbpa Hort. Berol. Broom *l □ or J ap Y.s Brazil 1838. C s.p Bot. reg. 1839, 24. 

 Synonymes : Cactus 5c6pa Link; CerSus Scdpa Dec. 



A very beautiful and curious species of this curious genus, with pale yellow 



flowers, with a scarlet centre. " It derives its name of the Broom Cactus, 



from having the basis of its stem so long and stiff," as somewhat to resemble 



a scrubbing-brush. It is a native of Brazil, whence it was first sent to 



Prussia. The specimen figured " flowered in the valuable collection of Thomas 



Harris, Esq., of Kingsbury." {Bot. Mag., May.) 



Composites. 



3586. LASTHITNIA 30141 glabrata Lindl Synonyme : Hologymne glabrata Bartl, Bot. mag. 3730. 



1698. GESNE V R7W 30002 elongata var. frutiedsa Graham, Bot. mag. 3725. 

 Synonyme : oblongata Paxt. Mag. of Bot. vi. p. 103. 



The stem of this plant is about 5 ft. high, quite shrubby, and much 

 branched. Dr. Graham received it in Sept. 1836, from the Epsom Nursery, 

 under the name of G. oblongata ; but it only differs from G. elongata " in its 

 much shorter peduncles, in the more obtuse base of the leaves, in its less 

 angular branches, and in the colouring of the veins and lower surface of the 

 leaves generally." {Bot. Mag., May.) In Paxton's Magazine of Botany for 

 June, it is stated that G. oblongata is the true name. 



Begomaceee. 



2654. BEGO v N/J 



sinuata Graham sinuated B.| | pr 2 my.jn W ... 1836. C co Bot. mag. 3731. 



A pretty kind of 'Begonia, sent from Berlin to the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden and Dr. Neill, in 1836. {Bot Mag., June). 



LabidtcB. 

 76. SA'LVIA confertiflbra Benth. 



A Brazilian species, with rather small orange red flowers. It was found 

 near Rio Janeiro by Mr. Macrae ; and, in the Horticultural Society's Gar- 

 den, it has flowered in the green-house. {Bot. Reg., May.) 



AmaranthdcecB. 



*TRICHFNIUM R. Br. (From trichinos, composed of hairs, in allusion to the shaggy flowers.) [1S39, 28. 

 +alopecuroideum Lindl. Foxtail-like jQJ cu 1 m.o P.B New Hoi. 1836. S co Bot. reg. 



This is the first plant that has flowered in Europe of the very remarkable 

 genus to which it belongs, and only six species of which were described by 

 Dr. Brown. The genus " is exclusively Australian." The present species was 

 discovered by Major Sir T. L. Mitchell, and named by Dr. Lindley in a note 

 to Mitchell's Australian Expeditions. At Swan River there are two other 

 species, one of which Dr. Lindley has named T. Mangles/i, in honour of Capt. 

 Mangles ; and the other T. Stirling;'*', in honour of Sir James Stirling. 

 Trichinium fllopecuroides " is a half-hardy annual, flowering abundantly in the 

 open border during the summer, and although not appearing very pretty in a 

 plate, it is sufficiently striking to deserve cultivation, for the surface of its 

 flowers is glossy, like those of the cockscomb. {Bot. Reg., May.) 



JJrlicece. 

 3420. GALACTODE'NDRON 28561 utile H. B. # Kunth, Palo de vaca Span., Bot. Mag. 3723,3724. 



This very interesting tree is here figured for the first time in Europe. It 

 was introduced, as appears by the Hortus Britannicus, in 1829, but has never 



