34 
NEW PLANTS OF 1848. 
With this extract we must conclude our 
notice. The second book treats fully of the 
physiology or vital action of the various 
organs, elementary and compound ; and in 
the third are explained and illustrated the 
terms used in deseriptivebotany. The volumes 
are exceedingly well got up, the embellish- 
ments consisting of numerous wood engrav- 
ings dispersed through the text, and six beau- 
tiful plates of microscopical figures. The 
merit of the work is sufficiently evidenced 
by the sale of three editions { and certainly 
this fourth edition, which is considerably ex- 
tended so as to become almost a new work, 
deserves an equal share of patronage to that 
which has been accorded to those which have 
preceded it. If we were disposed to find any 
fault, it would be that the author has given 
us, in great measure, the views of others, 
rather than a detail of his own ; though, in 
such a science as botany, and in a work profess- 
ing to be a reflex of the present state of the 
science, it was perhaps hardly possible that it 
should be otherwise. 
SKETCH OF THE NEW PLANTS OF 1848. 
The influx of new plants to our gardens 
from foreign climes, appears not to be stayed ; 
for during the past year there has been no lack 
of novelty; indeed, several important additions 
have been made to the plants already in cul- 
tivation. The various introductions have all, 
from time to time, been duly recorded in the 
previous volume of the Annals qfUorti, idture, 
and it is not our purpose here to repeat their 
descriptions ; but we propose in this place to 
give a useful summary of the most remarkable 
of the subjects which have either been intro- 
duced to this country or to public notice, dur- 
ing the year 1848. We shall take the genera 
in alphabetical order : — 
Acacia. — Of five species which our list re- 
cords three are useful additions to collections 
of green -house plants. These are A. argyro- 
phylla (Hooker), A. ixiophylla (Bentham), and 
A. leptoneuva, (Bentham). The former has the 
phyllodia greyish and silky, and of an obovate 
oblong figure; in the other two they are narrow. 
The flowers of all three are borne in globular 
heads, and are of a deep yellow colour. 
Achi:uenes. — This favourite genus has been 
greatly augmented within the few years it has 
attracted notice in gardens. The best which 
have been added this year are A. atrosan- 
guinea (Lindley), with long tubular scarlet 
blossoms ; A. Candida (Lindley), with small 
white flowers, and A. Kleii (Skinnei - ), which 
has rosy-coloured flowers, and the habit of 
longiflora. Hybrids are becoming frequent 
in this genus : a very large and beautiful va- 
riety of A. longiflora, distinguished as grandi- 
fiora, has we presume been thus originated ; 
its blossoms are certainly very large. A. mi- 
sera (Lindley) is a weed ; and A. ocellata 
(Hooker), is too leafy. 
Agalmyla staminea, Illume, is a fine stove 
epiphytal climber ; the blossoms are of a very 
rich vermilion colour, but there is a little 
coarseness in habit. Nevertheless, it is a use- 
ful plant. 
Aelamanda Schottii, Pohl, is a magni- 
ficent plant, its large yellow blossoms being 
very attractive ; its habit is more compact and 
shrubby than the common kind. 
Alloplectus concoeor, Hooker, one of 
the half-shrubby gesneraceous plants, bears 
freely its shaggy bright-red blossoms, and is 
a second-rate plant. 
Banksia Solandri, R. Brown, is a fine 
proteaceous shrub of New Holland, with scar- 
let blossoms. . 
Bejaria. — This genus of ericaceous shrubs 
is not at all familiar in a cultivated state. 
The species are, however, well deserving of 
attention, in consequence of their evergreen 
foliage, neat habit, and showy blossoms. The 
present year has introduced us to two, B. ces~ 
tuans (Mutis), and B. coarctata (Humboldt), 
both with purplish flowers, the exact tint of 
which we cannot learn, that are of the class 
alluded to ; the flowers are large and showy. 
Bouvardia Cavanillesii, Be Candolle, is 
a greenhouse shrub " about as ornamental as 
a fuchsia," and bearing scarlet tubular flowers. 
Burtonta. — Hard-wooded New Holland 
shrubs. Thei"e are two new purple-flowered 
kinds, either one of which should be added to 
every select collection of greenhouse plants; 
they are B. jndchella (Meisner), and B. villosa, 
(Meisner). Perhaps the first is the preferable 
one. 
Calceoearta cuneiformis, Ruiz and Pa- 
von, is a small yellow-flowered shrub, which 
may perhaps be useful as a summer plant 
out of doors. 
Canttja. — A genus of polemoniaceous 
shrubs of distinct habit and appearance. C 
dependens (Persoon), has the blossoms carmine, 
and is of sub- trailing habit ; C. pyr^i folia (Jus - 
sieu), bears pale yellow blossoms in largish 
bunches ; the former is the preferable kind. 
Chtrita Moonii, Gardner, is a very hand- 
some stove sub-shrub, with dark blue or purple 
gesneraceous flowers of a large size. 
Clematis indivisa, var. eobata is very or- 
namental ; it is a New Zealand plant, with 
