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NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS AND FLORISTs' 
MAGAZINE FOR APRIL. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing 
eight figures; coloured 4*., plain 3^. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Dr. Hooker^ each number containing eight 
plates ; coloured 3s. Qd,y plain 3*. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
British Flower-Garden. Edited by Mr. David Don. Containing four 
plates ; coloured 3^., plain 2s. 3c?. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
Florists' Magazine. By F. W. Smith. Containing four monthly plates, 
highly coloured ; several plates with two figures ; large size 4*., small 2*. Qd. ; and 
corresponding letter-press. 
Of the above figures, we have only selected such as are new or very rare ; and 
amongst these, only such as deserve to be extensively cultivated. For descriptions 
and figures, reference must be made to the works themselves. 
CLASS I PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONEjE). 
the flax tribe (line^). 
LiNUM Berendieri. Berendier's yellow-flowered Flax. An exceedingly 
beautiful and new species of Lin urn, found by Mr. Drummond at Rio Brazos, and 
San Felipe in the same country, and introduced to the gardens of this country in 
1835. Its flowers, which are a beautiful rich orange yellow, are produced in August. 
It will grow very well in a cold frame, but it is probable it will prove a hardy annual, 
and a most valuable acquisition to our gardens. JBot. Mag., 3480. p 
(melastomace^.) 
Ch^togastra gracilis. Slender Chsetogastra. An extremely beautiful 
melastomaceous perennial plant, first found by several travellers in Brazil, but 
afterwards collected by Mr. Tweedie, at Rio Grande de Sul in South Brazil, who 
sent seed to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from which the present plant in question 
was raised. Its blossoms, which are of a faded rose colour, are produced abou 
June ; it requires the heat of the stove, and from the large handsome character of 
its flowers will, no doubt, prove a desirable but variable object. JSot. Mag, 3481, 
(composite). 
Rhodante Manglesii. Captain Mangles' Rhodante. A beautiful hardy 
annual, producing brilliant rose coloured and yellow blossoms early in the summer 
months. In July, Professor Lindley observes, it becomes shabby, and by the 
beginning of August its seeds are ripe, and its life departed. It was introduced by 
Captain Mangles, R.N., who brought seeds from the Swan River Colony, New- 
Holland, to the gardens of Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sunning HilL It is hardy, 
but plants raised from seeds, and grown in an airy part of the greenhouse in pots, 
for select purposes, will flower beautifully ; but there is no doubt of its doing well 
and flowering freely in the open air in the flower garden. BoU Mag., 3483. 
