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only accidental. The variety (if such it be) was introduced from Brazil, by the 
Earl of Arran, and bloomed at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden in October 1839. 
Osbeckia canescens. This splendid Melastomaceous shrub, apparently allied 
to Lasiandra, was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Berlin, 
without any notification of its native country. The stem is weak, seven feet high, 
four-sided, and hoary. The leaves are opposite, ovate, obtuse, with parallel veins, 
and the flowers disposed in panicles at the summits of the branches, being 
individually about an inch and a half across, rich purple, and very showy. It 
flowers in July and August, and will succeed best in a moist heat, potted in a 
compost of enriched loam and heath-mould. Bot. Mag. 3799. 
Stevia breviaristata. We are not informed whether this neat Sterna be 
fruticose or herbaceous, but the appearance of the specimen delineated seems to 
indicate the latter character. It is not unlike a Verbena in aspect, as the slender 
stems, opposite serrated leaves, and dense heads of pretty pink blossoms, clearly 
attest. Two to three feet is its common height, and it branches profusely. Mr. 
Tweedie discovered it in Tucuman, South America, and sent seeds and specimens 
to the Glasgow Botanic Garden in 1836, where it flowered in the stove in July 
1837- We are by no means certain that it would not flourish better and grow 
more compactly in a greenhouse. Bot. Mag. 3792. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Acacia pulchella ; var. magna. An exceedingly beautiful shrub, and so 
much unlike the dwarf A. pulchella, that a specimen in the greenhouse of Mr. Low, 
Clapton, is now nearly twenty feet high, and densely bedecked with its elegant 
flowers, which are globular, but almost twice the size of the original species* 
Indeed, every feature in its character is far larger than the corresponding ones in 
A. pulchella, and it is neither improperly separated nor inaptly named. For 
planting in the border of a conservatory, it is one of the handsomest Acacias yet 
introduced ; the closeness of its habit, and the wonderful prolificacy in which it 
flowers, being equalled by few species of any genera. 
Bra ssi a verruc6sa. Green, greenish-yellow, or pure yellow, with irregular 
spots and blotchings of a dark brown or dun colour, are usually characteristic of 
the blossoms of all Brassias, and the present one is not an exception to the rule. 
It is extremely like the plant figured in the Botanical Magazine under the name 
of B. Lanceana, var. mridiflora, except that there are a number of obvious and 
singular dark warty excrescences on the lip, which sufficiently constitute it a new 
species. It was imported by Messrs. Rollison, Tooting, from Mexico, and has 
just bloomed in their establishment. It is an attractive-looking plant, and will be 
