By Mr. John Lindley. 



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spathas. Raised from seeds communicated to the Society 

 from the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, by the Honourable Court 

 of Directors of the East India Company in 1824. 



Flowers in the stove in October. This plant has little 

 beauty, but is noticed here in order to fix the date of its 

 introduction. It is easily cultivated in light sandy loam. 



XX. Cleome rosea. De CandolU. 



C. herbacea inermis glabra, foliis 5-foliolatis infimis floralibusque 3-foliolatis, 

 summis ovatis sessilibus, siliqua glabra thecaphori longitudine. De Candollc 



A beautiful tender annual, requiring the same treatment as 

 Balsams. The flowers are of a bright rose-colour, appearing 

 from May to October, and are borne at the end of numerous 

 ascending branches, proceeding from a fine upright central 

 stem, so that when in perfection they give the plant the air of 

 a vegetable Candelabrum. It is to be raised from seeds, which 

 are produced sparingly in long drooping pods. 



Sent to the Society from the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro 

 by Mr. James M c Rae, in 1824. The whole plant has a 

 faint smell of Elder. A figure and description taken from 

 plants in the possession of the Society, have been published 

 in the Botanical Register, fol. 960. 



XXI. Gynandropsis pulchella. 



G. foliis pilosiusculis integris : inferioribus 5 superioribus 3-foliolatis siliqua 

 ovali glabra, seminibus reniformibus tuberculatis. 



A pretty little tender annual, seeds of which were sent to the 

 Society from Maranham, in 1825, by Robert Hesketh, Esq. 

 It flowers in June and July. The stem is nearly simple, about 



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