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to them. They certainly are not as a whole, like some plants, especially benefited 
by being stimulated into vigour, if even it could be done. 
The little fluid such plants require, and the small portion of soil necessary for 
their roots, indicates, that under culture, they would be most at home, and 
they to a certainty would be in the greatest extent interesting, in situations prepared 
in imitation of those nature provides ; but the extent to which such a thing could be 
carried out, and the way of accomplishing it, to suit the various plants, and at the 
same time be subservient to circumstances, is another consideration, and one we 
must defer to a future opportunity. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Acanthophi'ppium java'nicum. " This plant, the original species of Blume's genus A caniliophip- 
pium, was found by its discoverer in the woods of the higher parts of Mount Salak, in Java, where it 
flowers from February to April. Our drawing was made from a specimen communicated in 
September, 1 844, by Messrs, Loddiges. It is a very pretty thing, because of the clear pale purple 
stripes drawn clown the outside of the flowers, and the delicate lilac of the orifice. As a species it 
is readily known by its three-lobed lip having the centre division contracted in the middle, uneven 
and ovate at the point, and fleshy at the base, with thick, fleshy, irregularly-toothed sides." 
Synonyme, A. javense, noticed at page 22 of last volume. — Bot. Reg., 47. 
Clerode'ndron sinua v tum. "Sent in July, 1846, from the rich collection of Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, who received it from Sierra Leone, discovered by Mr. Whit- 
field. It is one of those plants to which a drawing cannot do justice, and whose charm depends on 
the gracefulness of the entire plant, flowering at an early period, and bearing dense many-flowered 
heads from the extremity of every branch ; and these blossoms, too, are highly fragrant and of 
the tenderest and purest white. It deserves a place in every stove collection," is a low-growing 
shrub, with opposite, "ovate or oblong-ovate" leaves, which are "sinuated or angled at the 
margins/ ' — Bot. Mag., 4255. 
Datu'ra corni'gera. " A very singular Datura" writes Sir William Hooker, u the one here 
figured, has appeared in our gardens lately (the origin of which I have failed to ascertain), some- 
times under the name of Brugmansia Knightii, and sometimes under that of Datura frutescens ; it 
is unrecorded, so far as I can discover, in any book to which I have access. With the habit of 
Brugmansia, it has not the calyx of that supposed genus, which seems to have been founded upon the 
well-known Datura arborea of our gardens, which has an inflated, tubular, obtuse calyx, cut at the 
mouth into several segments. But this is not the D. arborea, Linn., and of Feuillee, Chil., t. 46 
(which is the authority* for Linnaeus' plant), nor of Ruiz and Pavon, 1. 128, where the calyx is acute 
and deeply cleft on one side, but appressed to the corolla, in that respect differing from our plant, 
of which the calyx is similarly cleft on one side, but runs out into a long subulate spreading point, 
The Linnsean plant is the Floripondio of the Spaniards, according to Father Feuillee, and Ruiz 
and Pavon, and is commonly cultivated both in Chili and Peru ; but I possess native specimens 
from the Andes of El Equador, where Colonel Hall remarks, ' it flourishes on the table-lands to an 
elevation of 9,500 feet, and where the mean temperature is about 50 degrees.' The Datura 
arborea of our gardens, which I possess from the West Indies, where, however, it is probably only 
in a state of cultivation, must therefore have a new name, and I shall suggest that of D. Gardneri 
for it, in compliment to Mr. Gardner, who was not only the first (as far as I know) to distinguish 
it from the Western or Pacific species, but to determine its locality. In his Brazilian collection, 
my specimen (n. 560) of this plant bears the remark, ' Is this quite the same as the plant from the 
