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glandulosa of Blume, but I can in no way distinguish it from Cl. smilacifolia. The Cl. smilacim 
of Blume is probably a misprint for smilacifolia, and intended to be considered the plant oi 
Wallich. And lastly, of the Clematis subpeltata of Dr. Wallich, from Tavoy, that distinguished 
author observes that it differs from Cl. smilacifolia only 4 in its having subpeltate, broad cordate 
leaves, in the panicles being shorter, the sepals ovate.’ ” — Bot. Mag., 4259. 
Calycoto'me spino'sa. 44 A pretty shrub, capable of withstanding the ordinary winters in the 
open border, but injured by severe ones. It grows freely in any dry, loamy soil, and flowers in 
June;” has small leaves, and bears its rather large, yellow flowers in great profusion. “It 
occurs in a wild state in various parts of the South of Europe and Barbary, on stony or rocky 
hills.” Synonymes, Cytisus spinosus , Genista spinosa, Spartium spinosum. — Bot. Beg., 55. 
Cy'clamen littora'le. 44 Roots of this plant, collected, we believe, at the Lake of Como, were 
presented by Mr. Bentham to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden one or two have sur- 
vived and flowered. It is mentioned as a variety of C. Europceum, by Mr. Gordon, in his paper on 
Cyclamens, published in the Gardeners' Chronicle (1843, p. 660), in which all the known garden 
species are mentioned. It is as hardy as any of the sorts, and thrives in sandy loam and leaf 
mould, but can only be multiplied by seeds. In some respects it approaches C. coum, especially 
in its perfectly undivided leaves and short flowers ; but although the latter are short, they are 
very much longer than in C. coum, and the leaves are spotted and differently shaped.” — Bot. 
Reg., 56. 
Fugo'sia iiakezEfo' lia. 44 A lovely hibiscoid plant,” Sir William Hooker writes, 44 flowering 
at an early period of growth, bearing copious large blossoms of a rich lilac-purple, with a deep 
red-purple eye surrounding the long staminal column, and these flowers, contrary to what is usual 
in the Hibiscus family, remaining many days expanded. This most desirable shrub was intro- 
duced by Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, being raised by them from Swan River seeds, in the spring 
of 1846. In the summer the plants flowered profusely. An allied species (if it be really distinct) 
is the Hibiscus lilacinus of Lindl., Bot. Reg., t. 2009, from the same region of Australia ; but the 
leaves of the latter are broader, and the corolla is destitute of the deep purple eye which gives 
such a brightness to the blossoms of the present species. Strangely enough, Walpers retains 
H. halcecefolius in Hibiscus, and refers H. lilacimis to Lagunaria of Don, whereas a very slight 
inspection will show that both are naturally placed in the genus Fugosia, of which the character is 
given at tab. 4218 of the present volume.” An erect, tall, not much branching, glabrous shrub, 
with distant, very variable (bipinnatifid and trifid) leaves, whose segments are linear. Flowers 
axillary, borne in August. — Bot. Mag., 4260. 
Gompholo'bium venu'stum. 44 A lovely greenhouse plant, from South-west Australia, first 
detected by Mr. Brown. Mr. Frazer gathered it in King George’s Sound, and Mr. Drummond 
sends specimens and seeds from the Swan River settlement. From the latter, Messrs. Lucombe 
and Pince have raised plants, which produced their copious corymbs of rich purple flowers in 
July, 1845. In the dried state the leaflets have a singularly rugose and almost beaded appearance, 
from the shrinking of the parenchyme between the transverse veins.” A rather dwarf, erect- 
growing, slender-branehed shrub, with remote, alternate, pinnate leaves, whose pinnae are linear. 
■ — Bot. Mag., 4258. 
Ny'mphyEa denta'ta. 44 From the rich collection of Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, Exeter. 
The roots were brought from Sierra Leone by Mr. Whitfield, and produced their handsome 
flowers in the aquarium of the stove in August 1846. Aquatic plants are, generally speaking, 
widely dispersed, and not a little variable, so that it behoves us to adopt new species among them 
with great caution. There can be no doubt that the plant here figured is nearly allied to the 
celebrated Nymphcea Lotus, an inhabitant of the Nile, figured in Andrews’ 4 Botanist’s Repository,’ 
tab. 391, and to N. thermalis, D. C , a native of Hungary, represented in Sims’ 4 Botanical 
Magazine,’ t. 797, (under the name of N. Lotus ) ; but if those delineations be accurate, the 
present is surely a different species, as well as an inhabitant of a widely different country ; or, if 
the same, then are the plates most inaccurate, for neither in the base of their calyx, nor on the 
under side of the leaf is there any similarity. Our plant seems to be unquestionably the N. dentata 
of Schumacher and Thonning, above quoted, which is a native of still waters on the coast of 
Guinea ; and we have therefore so called it. The singularly prominent and glabrous venation on 
the under side of the leaf, (similar to that of Euryale ferox, and of the Victoria regia), the large 
