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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
THE PROTEA TRIBE (PROTEACEiE). 
Banksia occidentalis. West-coast Banksia. This is a very handsome 
species ; the reddish purple-spreading- horizontal styles, tipped with yellow pollen, 
give it a very singular, yet rich appearance. It flowered in the greenhouse of the 
Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in September, 1835. Like other species of the genusy 
it requires great care in the cultivation. Bot, Mag., 3535, 
IsoPOGON Baxteri. Mr. Baxter's Isopogon. This is another very handsome 
species of the natural order Proteacece. The flowers, which are crowded at the 
termination of the stem and branches, contrasted with the thistle-like green leaves, 
render the plant very gay and desirable. It is a New Holland species, consequently 
must share the treatment of the greenhouse. Bot. Mag,, 3539, 
THE SUNDEW TRIBE (dROSERACE^). 
Drosera filiformis. Narrow-leaved Sundew. We are pleased to have the 
opportunity of noticing another species of this very interesting genus. The species 
figured by Dr. Hooker, in the Botanical Magazine, was found by Mr. James 
Macnab, in a swamp about ten miles above Tuckerton, New Jersey, United States, 
and introduced by him into our gardens in 1834. Unlike our native species, 
Drosera rotundifolia, this has long narrow leaves ; but, like it, the glands upon the 
upper face exude a viscid juice, no doubt capable of entrapping and holding insects 
that may incautiously alight upon them The scape is lateral and simple, and the 
flowers at its summit of a rose colour. Dr. Neile, who flowered it well, kept the 
plant in a stove heat. Bot. Mag., 3540. 
CLASS IL— PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONE^). 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (ORCHIDE^). 
Brasavola cordata. Heart-lipped Brasavola, A species of orchidaceous 
plants, closely alHed to B. nodosa, from which it differs in its flowers, being only 
half the size, with a cordate labellum, and a very different clinandrium. A native 
of Brazil, flowers in January. There will, observes Dr. Lindley, be no certainty in 
the cultivation of epiphytal Orchidacese, till we become more precisely acquainted 
with the habits of the different species than we now are. At present, it is usual to 
consider them all natives of trees in damp shady woods. It is, however, quite 
certain that such is the habit of only some of them. The whole genus, Brasavola 
for example, grows upon stones and rocks, never upon trees, in open forest glades, 
fully exposed to the sun. Bot, Reg., 1914. 
THE CORN-FLAG TRIBE (IRIDACEJE). 
Sysyrinchium graminifolium ; var. pumilum. Dwarf grass-leaved Sysy- 
rinchium. A very beautiful, and certainly a desirable, little perennial, with bright 
yellow flowers. It is a native of Valparaiso and Conception, where it flowers in 
October. With Robert Mangles, Esq., the gentleman who furnished the sample 
for the drawing, it flowered about May. It must be treated as a greenhouse plant. 
This, remarks Dr. Lindley, is one of those perennials with succulent, fingered roots^ 
which multiply sparingly. It is chiefly to its seed that we must look to the means 
of propagating it. Bot. Reg., 1915. 
