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NEW PLANTS OF THE ASBESTOS MOUNTAINS. 
16, 17 Feb. 
Amongst them was a very remarkable plant, not more than two 
feet in height, particularly interesting to the botanist, as being the 
only one of the natural order of the Passion-flowers hitherto dis- 
covered in this part of the globe ; and, notwithstanding its blossoms 
being very unlike those well-known flowers, I have ventured to name 
it Paschanthus^ (a Greek version of the word Passion-flower,) in 
order to mark its affinity to that order, although the name be not 
quite unobjectionable. Yet though it was furnished with tendrils, 
it had not the growth of a climbing plant. 
A new kind of Phyllanthus, (C. G. 2041,) a very delicate little 
plant, appeared at first sight to have the pinnated leaves of some 
East-Indian jEschynomene. It sprang up between the brown stones ; 
and, though not a foot high, attracted notice by the delicacy of its 
leaves. 
A small fern, not yet in fructification, but apparently allied to 
Ceterach^ grew in a situation similar to that in which I had found it 
in England. Such associations of ideas recalling, in scenes so 
different, the memory of my native land and of those it contained, 
were never to be resisted, and for a few moments always made me 
forget that I was in Africa. At that instant, a Lantana before me in 
full bloom, brought our English hot-houses to recollection, and ex- 
cited an amusing comparison of its situation there, reared with diffi- 
culty, and preserved only by the daily care of man, with that in which 
Pennisetum 
Her'mannia 
Phyllanthus, 2 sp. 
Pharnaceum 
Hibiscus 
Celastrus 
Bryonia 
Pteris 
Kyllingia 
Mahernia 
Aristida, L. 
Glycine 
Indigqfera 
Solanum 
Uropetalum, B. 
Melhania 
Carphalea ? 
Pappophorum 
Achyranthes. 2 sp. 
Telephium ? 
Lantana 
Rottbbllia 
Sida 
Talinum 
Thesium 
Nemesia, &c. 
