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survived in the stove through the winter, and produced their bright orange-red 
blossoms in May, 1837 ; since when plants have been trained against an open wall, 
and produced their flowers in great abundance. Bot. Mag. 3632. 
THE PAPAU TRIBE (Papayacece). 
Carica citriformis. Small citron-fruited Papaw. Plants of this interesting- 
species were raised in the Botanic Garden, Glasgow, from seeds communicated by 
Charles Horsfall, Esq., Liverpool, in 1835 ; and so rapidly does the plant come to 
perfection that it produced its flowers and fruit the same year. The stem is erect, 
and upwards of five feet high, with leaves on long petioles from the upper part of 
it ; the yellowish white flowers are in clusters at the axils of the leaves, and the 
fruit is bright orange, about the size and shape of a hen's egg. Bot. Mag. 3633. 
THE INDIAN FIG TRIBE (Cactacece). 
Mammillaria Lehmanni. Lehmann's Mammillaria. This plant flowered in 
the collection of Messrs. Mackie, of Norwich, who observe that it is a " distinct 
and remarkable species, bearing dark points in the axils of the mammillae, which in 
hot weather exude a dark-coloured viscid matter not observable in any other 
species." The plant grows about six inches high, with terminal flowers of a deli- 
cate straw colour and red filaments. Bot. Mag. 3634. 
THE PASSION-FLOWER TRIBE {P assifioraceas) . 
Passiflora nigelliflora. Nigella-flowered Passion Flower. A species of 
Passiflora, raised in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from seeds collected by Mr. 
Tweedie, at St. Jago de Estera, in 1835. It is very nearly allied to P. gossypi- 
folia^ and two or three others, but may be readily known from them by its five- 
lobed and strongly-serrated cordate leaves ; the stem attains the height of several 
feet, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; the flowers are a palish green, the germen 
and style slightly hairy. Flowers in September. Bot. Mag. 3635. 
Passiflora Tucumanensis. Large-stipuled Passion Flower. This is a new 
species of Passiflora, also raised from seeds sent by Mr. Tweedie to the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, in 1836, which were found by him in Tucuman in Chili. A 
glabrous plant with long twinging stems and dark green leaves very deeply three- 
lobed, with a flower about two inches in diameter ; the calyx and petals are white, 
the inner nectary consists of numerous white filaments tipped with blue ; and 
the filaments of the outer one is white, barred with purplish blue. It flowers in 
the stove in July. Bot. Mag. 3636. 
CLASS II.— PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOT Y LEDONEiE.) 
THE LILY TRIBE (Liliacece). 
Thysanotus proliferus. Proliferous Thysanotus. Another Swan River 
plant, raised in the garden of R. Mangles, Esq. ; the stem is erect, about two 
feet high, with long smooth linear leaves, and violet flowers, which are not very 
