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more commonly not exceeding four or five. The leaves are palmately trifoliate ; 
leaflets sessile, smooth, serrated towards the point. Pedicels bifid. Flowers of 
separate sexes. Calyx four-toothed, persistent. Petals four, linear-oblong, acute, 
white, tinged with pale rose. Disk cup-shaped, with elevated worts. Stamens eight, 
inserted under the disk. Berry globose, umbilicate at the apex, one or two-celled. 
Seeds solitary. 
This plant occupies similar situations to B. Kafal, growing abundantly amongst 
the barren rocks. The gum which oozes from wounds, inflicted on the plants for 
the purpose, is of the same colour, and appears to possess exactly the same properties 
as the true Myrrh, being semitransparent, brittle, and shining, and in taste bitter 
and slightly acrid ; taking all things together, we cannot avoid thinking but the 
Balsamadendron MyrrJia, of Kunth, and the Balsamadendron Kataf, of Forsk, are 
identical, and that any difference in the verdure and size of the shrubs may be 
satisfactorily accounted for, from a difference in their situations of growth. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE "BOTANICAL MAGAZINE" 
AND OTHER LEADING PERIODICALS FOR MAY AND JUNE. 
Alloplectus concolor (Whole-coloured Alloplectus). An undoubted congener with Alloplectus 
diochrous, having the same habit, but smaller flowers, calyx and corolla uniformly red, the latter 
much more ventricose above at the upper part of the tube, with the mouth more oblique. It is, we 
presume, an inhabitant of Brazil, having been sent to Kew by Mr. Galeotti, in 1846, under the 
garden-name of A. eriocalyx, without any indication of its locality. The flowers are red, very hairy, 
and produced in clusters from the axils of the leaves. — Bot. Mag., 4371. 
Angr^ecum caudatum (Long-tailed Angrcecum). A species of the rare genus Angrsecum, pro- 
ducing green and white flowers, and with so remarkable a spur that, as Dr. Lindley observes, it 
has no parallel but in the Habenaria longicauda and Angr cecum sesquipedale. It is a native of 
Sierra Leone, whence it was imported by Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, but is still rare in our 
stoves. Attached to rough pieces of wood, and suspended from the ceiling, it flowers in October. — 
Bot. Mag., 4370. 
Anopterus glandulosus (Glandular-leaved Anopterus). A truly handsome evergreen .shrub, 
native of Van Diemen's Land, and introduced to the Royal Gardens of Kew, by Ronald Gunn, 
Esq. It has hitherto been treated as a greenhouse plant, but in the mild parts of England, near 
the coast, it would in all probability bear the open air all the year round, perhaps even about 
London, if trained to a wall having a good aspect. Its season of flowering (winter) would be 
unfavourable to the blossoming in such a situation ; but the fine dark-green foliage, not much 
unlike that of Photinia serrulata, is at all times a recommendation. The flowers are white, and 
produced in axillary racemes. — Bot. Mag., 4377. 
Aristolochia grandtflora, described Bot. Mag., 4368-9. See Mag. Bot., p. 117, of the 
current volume. 
Corynocarpus laevigata (Smooth-leaved Corynocarpus). A native of New Zealand. The 
flowers have little to recommend them, yet the plant itself forms a tree " Karaka " of the natives, 
upon which the eye of the traveller rests with pleasure, by reason of its rich dark glossy leaves, 
and highly ornamental growth ; and it furnishes a plum-like fruit, of which the drupaceous coat, 
when fully ripe, and of a sweetish taste, is eaten by the natives. The nut or kernel, also, upon 
being deprived (by steaming and maceration in salt-water) of the poisonous property it is said to 
