supplementary to Enc. of Plants, Hort. Brit., and Arb. Brit. 521 



in great abundance. It grows best in a temperature very "little higher" than 

 that of a common green-house ; and " it delights in a rich fresh soil, which 

 may be formed with a mixture of good loam and peat, and about one fourth 

 of pure sand." (Bot. Reg., August.) 



1251. GOMPHOLO'BIUM [Teg. 1839. 43. 



versicolor Lindl. changeable-coloured * | 1 or 1 mr O.y.s Swan River 1839. C s.p Bot. 



A pretty species, with scarlet flowers, which become paler after expansion, 

 introduced by Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sunning Hill. Dr. Lindley observes, 

 under this head, that there are three species of this genus, "very much like 

 each other, and difficult to distinguish, if, indeed, they are distinct." These 

 are, G. tenue, with yellow flowers, rather long petioles, and the peduncles 

 generally 1-flowered; G. sparsum, which has dark flowers, and the leaves 

 " distinctly veiny on the upper side," while those near the bottom of the 

 branches are larger than the others ; and the present species, " G. versicolor, 

 which differs from G. tenue in its short petioles, and suhracemose dark flowers; 

 and from G. sparsum in the leaflets not being all veiny, and all equal-sized." 

 (Bot. Reg., August.) 



+ Medicago clypedta Lindl. A new medicago, a native of the north of 

 India, of no beauty, and only curious in the shape of its capsules. (B. M. R., 

 No. 90., August.) 



1268. BAUHI'N/4 10652 forficata Bot. Mag. 3741. 



Hosacece § Spircs^cs. 



Spircs^a cuneifolia Wall., syn. S. canescens Don. A pretty hardy shrub, 

 introduced by the East India Company, which has recently flowered in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden. It forms " an erect bush, with downy, 

 angular, arching stems, from which proceed numerous short stiff branches, 

 terminated by close corymbose panicles of downy white flowers. (B. M. R., 

 No. 87., August.) 



S. vaccinufolia Don. A small shrub, introduced with the above, and 

 having small compact panicles of white flowers. (B. M. R., No. 88., August.) 



-)- S. laxifibra Lindl. " The flowers are arranged in large, loose, shaggy 

 panicles ; and the petals are moreover reflexed." It bears some resemblance 

 to S. fastigiata Wall. (B. M. R., No. 89., August.) 



Composites $ AsteracecE. 



234. CINERARIA 21440 lactea 



Synonyme : Sen&cio populifdlius Dec. var. lacteus Lindl., Bot. Reg. 1839, 45. 



A native of the Canary Isles. 

 Gesnerikcede. 



1698. GE'SNER^ 



MarchzY Wailes Mr. March's A I I or 2g o S Organ Mounts. 1839. C p.l Bot. mag. 3744. 



This is a very distinct species, producing abundance of rather pale and 

 rather small flowers ; and, as it was found on the estate of George March, 

 Esq., in the Organ Mountains, it was named after that gentleman. " The root 

 is a large, roundish, depressed, uneven tuber, measuring more than 3 ft. in cir- 

 cumference, and about ljin. thick." (Bot. Mag., August.) 

 Horagindcece. 

 431. ONO'SMA 30377 setbsum Flor. Cab., No. 11L 



Labiates. 

 76. SA'LVIA 724 argentea Flor. Cab., No. 112. 



Acantkdcea?. 

 1734. THUNBE'RG/^ 15541 Hawtaynea'rca Paxt. Mag. of Bot. vol. vi. p. 147. 



VolygondcecB. 

 1210. POLY'GONUM 31681 amplexicaule Bot. Beg. 1839, 46. 



Asarincs. 

 3572. HETEROTROPA 30075 asaroides Bot. Mag. 3746. 



Orchiddcecs. 

 2553. CATTLE V Y^ 29659 cftrina Bot. Mag. 3742. 



