By Mr. John Lindley. 



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with a small smooth stone. From the facility with which it 

 bears forcing, it is to be anticipated that it may hereafter 

 prove, an object deserving attention. A figure of it, in flower, 

 has been published in the Botanical Register, tab. 800, under 

 the name of P. paniculata, a plant which there is no reason 

 to suppose has been yet introduced, and which has been com- 

 pared by its discoverer to P. Mahaleb, bearing large pani- 

 cles, not racemes of flowers. The following character will 

 be sufficient to distinguish this species from others of its 

 genus. 



P. psendo-cerasus ; foliis obovatis acuminatis planis serratis, 

 floribus racemosis, ramulis pedunculisque pubescentibus. 



ANNUAL PLANTS. 



XLVI. Euphorbia cyathophora. Jacquin. 



This was raised from seed sent from the Bahamas by 

 John Campbell Lees, Esq. a Corresponding Member of the 

 Society. It is also a native of Florida, and sufficiently hardy 

 to live in the open air during the summer months : so treated 

 it becomes annual, but in the stove it is perennial. It is a 

 small plant, producing a few simple stems about a foot high, 

 covered with dark glaucous green leaves, and terminated by 

 other leaves of a brilliant scarlet colour, resembling a co- 

 loured involucrum. It is figured in the Botanical Register, 

 tab. 765. 



XLVII. Nicotiana repanda. Willdenow. 

 Seeds of this were brought from the Havannah in 1823, by 

 Mr. George Don, as of the true Havannah cigar Tobacco. 

 The plant is two feet high, with a nearly simple stem, 



