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the base." It bloomed with Sigismond Rucker, Esq., jun., in February last. It should be 
treated like D. Pierardi, and the rest of that class. Bot. Reg. 60. 
Duvau x a longifo^lia. " The Duvauas are a race of evergreen shrubs, smelling of turpentine, 
with small green flowers, a caustic juice, and considerable affinity to Rhus. We have now in our 
gardens the following species, viz. D. dependens, ovatct, latifolia, this longifolia, and another or 
two undescribed and insufficiently examined. They all inhabit the southern temperate regions of 
South America, and are capable of living with us in the open air through ordinary winters, 
especially if placed in a north-western exposure. This species differs from dependens in its 
leaves not being at all serrated, and decidedly narrowed, not widened, to the base ; and also in 
having very short corymbs of flowers. With the others it is not necessary to compare it. It is 
much hardier than any of the others, having stood against an exposed wall in the hard winter of 
1837-8, when all the others were either killed down to the ground, or entirely destroyed. It 
grows freely in any good garden soil ; flowers in June or July ; and is increased by seeds, or by 
cuttings of the half-ripe wood, taken off about August, and treated in the ordinary way. The 
plant figured, was presented to the Horticultural Society some years ago, by Mr. H. Low, of 
Clapton, who raised it from seeds received from Buenos Ayres." Bot. Reg., 59. 
Eleutheri'ne ano'mala. " This singular little plant appeared in a flower-pot in the garden 
of the Horticultural Society, in April last, but its origin is unknown. Its similarity to the West 
Indian Marica plicata, renders it probable that it had been imported from that part of the 
world. From Marica plicata, it differs in its dwarfishness, in the leaves tapering very evidently 
to the base, while the uppermost have long channelled stalks, and are much longer than the flowers. 
The great peculiarity, however, consists in the flowers having six stamens, instead of three : a 
circumstance previously, we believe, unobserved in the Iridaceous order. Whether, however, this 
was an accidental circumstance in the plant figured, or is peculiar to the species, is uncertain. 
The inci-ease in number of stamens, is of the same nature with their redundancy in Vellozia and 
Gethgllis." It seems a pretty little plant, and bears numerous white flowers. Bot. Reg. 57. i 
Luxembu'rgia cilio'sa. " M. Auguste de St. Hilaire characterized and published this beau- 
tiful genus, under the name of Luxemburgia, about the same time that it was taken up by 
Martius and Zuccarini under that of Plectanthera. The four species described by St. Hilaire 
are all inhabitants of Brazil ; and all grow on that chain of mountains which separates the virgin 
forests from the discovered countries ; ' and, what is remarkable,' continues St. Hilaire, * is, that 
this chain, which forms the boundary line between two such distinct Floras, presents a vegetation 
equally distinct from both.' Our present species was first detected by Martius in the Diamond 
district, province of Minas Geraes ; and, subsequently, in the year 1841, by Mr. Gardner, in 
moist, peaty soil, in open places, growing with species of Andromeda, on the Organ Mountains, at 
an elevation of 5,000 feet above the level of the sea. Truly distinct as this species is from 
any other, Steudel, in the last edition of his Nomenclator, has, I know not upon what authority, 
united it, together with L. polyandra, with L. corymbosa. No one could do so who has ever seen 
the two species growing. It is a truly handsome plant, both in its foliage, which is of a lively and 
glossy green, and in its fine corymb of flowers, of a pure yellow colour. It requires a moderate 
stove-heat ; and flowers during the summer months, in the Royal Gardens of Kew, whither seeds 
had been sent by Mr. Gardner. Bot. Mag. 4048. 
Mormo v des aroma'ticum. M. Pardinum is the only species to which this plant approaches 
closely. " In habit the two are similar, but M. aromaticum is the smaller, and has shorter 
leaves. The spike of M. pardinum is much longer, and bears three times as many flowers ; the 
sepals and petals are narrower, and more taper-pointed ; their difference in colour is obvious ; 
the labellum of M. pardinum has the same form as the sepals, except that it has three sharp- 
pointed lobes, and a kind of stalk, which M. aromaticum wants. This species, although only 
introduced a few years since from Mexico, is now common ; and, although of little beauty, is 
valued for the peculiar fragrance, which is like that of aromatic-vinegar." The flowers appear to 
have a kind of greenish dingy-white ground, spotted and stained with purplish-chocolate. 
Bot. Reg. 56. 
Petali'dium barlerioi v des. This is the Ruellia barlerioides of some authors, and " inhabits 
the mountain regions of India, according to Dr. Roxburgh. It was found at Sheikpore and 
Monghyr, by Dr. Hamilton, and near Deyre by Dr. Wallich, to whom the Royal Botanic Gardens 
