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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
THE BIND- WEED TRIBE (Convolvulacece). 
Ipom^ea Platensis. The Plata Ipomeea. This is a very showy species, with 
long slender stems, large palmate leaves, and delicate rose or lilac-coloured flowers. 
It is a native of the banks of the Plata, from which circumstance it derives its 
name, and was first known in our collections through the Hon. and Rev. William 
Herbert, of Spofforth, but seeds of it have recently been received from the same 
country which were collected by Mr. Tweedie, and it flowered in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden in August, 1837. It is a stove species, of climbing habits, and 
flowers most abundantly. Bot. Mag. 3685. 
THE NIGHTSHADE TRIBE (Solanacece). 
Solanum fragrans. This is not a handsome species, but a very singular one, of 
an arborescent character, and growing from twelve to fourteen feet high in its cultivated 
state. It grows erect, and produces many lateral horizontal branches at the top, from 
the forkings of which the flowers have their origin. The latter appear in pendulous 
racemes, the pedicels of which are all two-flowered, and the corolla is purple when 
in the bud state, afterwards greenish, and when fully expanded each segment has 
a dark purple streak on the back : the segments are much reflexed, and the 
whole flower is very agreeably fragrant. The leaves are broadly ovate, smooth, 
and entire. It was sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from South Brazil, 
by Mr. Tweedie, and, while kept in a pot, did not flower ; but when removed into 
a border in the stove, it produced its curious blossoms in the month of June. Bot. 
Mag. 3684. 
THE TRUMPET-FLOWER TRIBE (Bignoniacece). 
Spathodea pentandra. Five-stamened Spathodea. A most splendid plant, 
and of a rather extraordinary character. It has been raised in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden from seeds received from India under the name of Bignonia 
pentandra, but Sir W. J. Hooker considers it to belong to Spathodea. Its large 
clusters of beautiful pink-coloured flowers, with their rich purple calyxes, impart 
to it much of the appearance and magnificence of a Rhododendron, but to the latter 
splendid genus it is even superior in character. The plant which furnished the 
subject of the drawing in the Botanical Magazine, did not flower till it was twenty 
feet high, and its noble foliage, contrasted with the extremely beautiful flowers, 
must have presented a very striking appearance. Bot. Mag. 3681. 
CLASS II. — PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDON EM). 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (Orchidacece). 
Epidendrum Schomburgkii. Mr. Schomburgk's Epidendrum. Perhaps this 
may safely be said to be the handsomest species of this extensive genus, or at least 
