By Mr. John Lindley. 



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blance to a Clitoria in habit, and will one day, probably, be 

 separated from the genus, which is otherwise perfectly na- 

 tural. It is not easily yjropagated, but it grows well in equal 

 parts of peat and fresh loam, and is a noble inhabitant of the 

 stove. 



XVIII. Oxalis Plumieri. Linnceus. 

 This, the only shrubby species of Oxalis in our gardens, 

 was recently brought from the Botanic Garden at St. Vin- 

 cent's to the Society, by Mr. James M c Rae. It is a neat 

 little plant, not growing in the stove more than twelve or 

 eighteen inches high, with bright green ternate leaves, and 

 little yellow flowers, which are to be seen upon the plant 

 during the whole year. Figured in the Botanical Register, 

 tab. 810, from a plant which blossomed in the Comtesse De 

 Vandes's collection at Bayswater. It is easily propagated by 

 cuttings, and requires to be kept in the stove. 



HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 

 XIX. Marica Sabini. 

 This is a magnificent species of Marica, sent by Mr. George 

 Don, a collector then in the service of the Society, from the 

 African Island of St. Thomas, in the year 1822. It rivals, in 

 beauty of flowers, the well-known M. Northiana, to which it 

 is in habit similar. The leaves are three feet high, ensiform, 

 erect, towards the end cultrate, the scape about a foot longer 

 than the leaves, and shaped like them, pushing forth from 

 some distance below its end, a spathe-like horizontal raceme 

 of four or five flowers, which open by pairs at intervals of 

 two or three days, and emit a slight but agreeable perfume. 



