34:6 Ti'ansactions of the London Horticultural Society. 



in a pit in the Horticultural Society's Garden ; but, as it was found by Major 



Sir Thomas Mitchell on the summit of a chain of rocky mountains, it will 



doubtless prove nearly hardy. (^Bot. Reg., May.) 



S655. STENOME'SSON 



latifblium W. H. broad-leaved tf _AJ or 1 my O Lima 1837. O p.s.l Bot. mag. 3803. 



This very beautiful bulbous plant was sent to Spofforth from Lima, in 1838. 



It requires " a pretty strong alluvial soil, with manure that is perfectly 



rotten." The leaves grow rapidly when the plant receives moisture, but they 



will not bear the ardent rays of the sun. " After their decay the pot should 



be left drv, and the flower-scape will rise while it is yet unwatered." (^Bot. 



Mag., May.) 



SPREKE^L7.4 CP-s.1 Bot. reg. 1840, 33. 



cybister var. brevis TV. H. short-Jlowered tumbler tf _Ai or 1 ... R.g S. Amer. 1839. O 

 Synonyme : Hippe&strum anomalura Lindl. 



Sprekelia is the new name given by Mr. Herbert to the Jacobsea lily, the 

 old Amaryllis formoslssima ; and he considers this plant, which flowered in 

 Mr. Knight's Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, to belong to the same 

 genus. A nearly similar plant, but with longer flowers, has lately flowered at 

 SpoflTorth, where it was called " the Tumbler, from the very singular precipi- 

 tation of the buds in their progress towards expansion, and in the final per- 

 pendicular position of the lower lip of the flower." {^Bot. Reg., June.) 



Tulipaceae. 



1016. iI'LIUM 30171 eximium Bot. Gard. 733. 



CommeliridLceie. 

 lOOO. TRADESCA'NT/^ 31728 iridescens Bot. Reg. 1840, 34. 



This curious little plant has been already mentioned in the Gard. Mag. 

 vol. XV. p. 34. It is stemless, its height is not more than half a foot, and its 

 flowers are of a dingy lilac. " It is a half-hardy perennial, with tuberous 

 roots, growing in any rich soil, and flowering in July and August, each flower 

 only lasting for a few hours. The plant is increased freely by seeds, but 

 seldom flowers before the second season ; its roots may be preserved during 

 winter, if kept dry in the pots, or in sand, like Cape bulbs." {Bot. Reg., 

 June.) 



-+- Spironema frdgrans Lindl. A new Mexican herbaceous plant, with 

 delicate whitish fragrant flowers. (^B. M. R., No. 48., April.) 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. 2d 

 Series, Vol. I. Part V. 4to. London, 1833. 



{Continued from Vol. XIII. p. 365.) 



We have so long left off" reviewing these Transactions that our readers may 

 perhaps have supposed that we had forgotten them. This has by no means 

 been the case ; we have been obliged to omit them from a pressure of 

 matter, and from the Magazine being smaller in size than it was five or six 

 years ago. In the course of the current year we shall get through the whole 

 of our arrears. We left off" with Art. 53., in Vol. I. of the second series, the 

 essence of which will be found in Vol. XIII. 



54. is Mr. Thompson's Journal of Meteorological Obsei'vations. 



55. A71 Account of some Experiments made in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, with a View to ascertaining the relative Productiveness of the Tubers 

 and Sets of Potatoes. By Dr. Lindley. Read March 4. 1834. 



This is a very valuable paper ; partly from the physiological remarks it 



