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NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 
In the vicinity of Sheeraz, November and December are cool ; January and 
February more so ; these may be considered the winter months. In December and 
January snow falls not unfrequently : the hills are covered with it for some months, 
but it seldom lies any considerable time in the plains. March and April may be 
considered the spring (though then the sun, during several hours of the day, is 
extremely powerful) ; and the remaining months till November again, as the very 
hot summer and warm autumn of these parts. 
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS, FIGURED IN THE 
THREE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS. 
Op the twenty monthly figures given in these three works, we have only 
selected such as are new, and well worthy of culture. For descriptions and figures, 
reference must be made to the works themselves. 
THE JUSTICIA TRIBE (ACANTHACEiE). 
Goldfussia (Ruellia) anisophylla ( Unequal-leaved Goldfussia). — This 
beautiful plant was found by Francis de Sylva, at Sylhet, and through Dr., Wallack 
introduced to European gardens, where it is a great ornament to our stoves, flowering 
during the winter and spring months. The flowers are handsome, purplish blue, 
prettily variegated, and veined with pale marks of the same colour, and red and 
yellow. — Botanical Magazine, p. 3404. 
THE PEA TRIBE (LEGUMINOSiE). 
Acacia prensans (Prickly feathered Acacia). — A most elegant and lovely 
shrub. The flowers are scentless, but singular and handsome, from the strong 
contrast between the bundles of stamens, which are pale yellow, and the interstices, 
which are of a dark dull mulberry red. — Botanical Magazine, p. 3408. 
Orobus atropurpureus (Dark purple Orobus). — A native of wild places 
near Algiers, where it was first noticed by Desfontaines. It is also met with in 
Sicily, and in the loamy meadows of eastern Calabria, near Cotrone and Cassano. 
It is a hardy perennial. — Botanical Register, 1763. 
THE HEATH TRIBE (ERICEiE). 
Rhododendron venustum (Lovely Rosebay).^— A dwarf, hardy, evergreen 
shrub, not exceeding eight inches in height, with flowers of a rich pink, marked 
inside with dark red spots. This exceeding showy and and interesting plant was 
raised by Mr. William Smith, in 1829, from seeds of Rhododendron Caucasicum, 
that had been fertilised by Arbor eum. Mr. Smith has already a good stock of young 
plants of it. — British Fl. Gard. 285. 
