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and petals are white tinged with rose-colour, 
and the lip is white, lengthened out, nearly 
square at the apex, where its margins are 
smooth. Native of Java and Borneo. Intro- 
duced in 1847, by Mr. Low, of the Clapton 
nursery. Flowers in May. It is the Chci- 
rostylis marm.orata (Van Houtte). The genus 
is dedicated by Professor Morren, of Ghent, 
to the memory of M. P. E. Dossin, a botanist 
of Liege. Culture. — Requires a stove, and 
to be for the most part covered with a bell- 
glass ; sphagnum moss, potsherds, and sand, 
with a little very spongy turfy peat ; propa- 
gated by division of the plant or roots. 
CURTIS S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.* 
We are happy to bear testimony to the perma- 
nence of the improvements, formerly noticed 
as having been effected in the production and 
publication of this work, during the last three 
or four years. In books of this kind, much 
value attaches of course to the faithfulness 
of the delineations, and in this respect the 
father of the botanical periodical literature of 
England was always trustworthy ; but since 
the work has been in the present hands, there 
has been a very marked change in what is 
technically called the " getting up," and the 
change has been decidedly for the better. 
Under the very able superintendence of 
Sir W. Hooker, too, the botanical fame of the 
Magazine, has continued to increase rather 
than otherwise, which was indeed to be 
anticipated, inasmuch as not only the new 
plants of the national Botanic Gardens of 
Kew adorn its pages, but others also from the 
chief plant establishments of the country, 
both public and private. Our own pages are 
often indebted to the beautiful drawings of 
this work, for the materials from which our 
wood engravings are prepared; though of 
course the latter give but a very imperfect 
idea of the beauty of the originals, which 
have not only the advantage of greater size, 
but the very important one of colour in 
addition. 
Some notion of the interest which attaches 
to this work may be gained from the follow- 
ing memoranda of new subjects, of which 
admirable figures and descriptions have been 
published in it, within the last year : — 
" Solandra Icevis (smooth -leaved). — A 
stove shrub, with long white trumpet-shaped 
flowers. 
" Hypocyrta glabra (shining-leaved). — A 
* Curtis's Botanical Magazine, comprising the 
plants of the Royal Garden of Kew, &c. By Sir W. 
J. Hooker, K.H., D.C.L., Oxon, &c. &c London : 
Reeve, Benham & Reeve. 
stove sub-shrubby plant, with numerous 
tubular bellied scarlet flowers from the axils 
of the leaves. 
"Soya cinnamomifolia (cinnamon-leaved). 
— A climbing plant, requiring stove heat, and 
bearing green and purple blossoms. 
" Gesnera pardina (leopard-spotted). — Not 
very showy, being rather too leafy. A stove 
sub-shrub, with red spotted flowers. 
" Orothamnus Zeyheri (Mr. Zeyher's). — 
A proteaceous Cape shrub, with a head of 
fine rose-coloured bracts ; greenhouse. 
" Achimenes ocellata (eyeletted). — A tu- 
berous-rooted stove herb, with large foliage, 
and scarlet spotted flowers ; not very showy. 
" Sida integerrima (entire-leaved.) — A 
stove shrub or small tree, with large heart- 
shaped leaves and yellow blossoms. 
" Strobilanthes lactatus (milky-leaved). — 
A pretty stove dwarf sub-shrub, with hand- 
some leaves, having a milky mark down the 
centre ; the flowers are bluish-white. 
" Alloplectus concolor (whole-coloured). — 
A stove sub-shrub, with bright red ventricose 
tubular flowers from the axils of the leaves ; 
the flowers are shaggy with hairs. 
" Echinocactus chloropthalmus (green- 
eyed). — A pretty dwarf cactus of nearly 
globular shape, with large purple flowers, 
having the peculiarity of a green-coloured 
stigma ; greenhouse. 
" Fuchsia spectabilis (showy). — The queen 
of Fuchsias, vigorous in habit, with rich 
crimson flowers ; greenhouse. 
" Jatropha podagrica (gouty-stalked). — A 
stove plant with curious gouty stems ; it has 
a corymb of scarlet flowers. 
" Vriesia speciosa (showy). — A beautiful 
stove plant, with a pine-apple-like habit, and a 
scape of crimson bracts. 
" Acacia argyrophylla (silver leaved). — A 
nice greenhouse shrub from the Swan River, 
with silky leaf-like phyllodia, and yellow 
blossoms in globular heads. 
" Episcia bicolor (two-coloured). — A 
pretty dwarf herb, requiring stove heat ; the 
flowers are purple and white ; of the gesneria- 
ceous class. 
" Leuchtenbergia principis (noble). — A 
remarkable cactus, with mammilla? like aloe 
leaves ; the flowers are yellow ; requires a 
dry warm greenhouse. 
" Sonerila stricta (upright). — An annual 
stove plant of slender habit, with rose-coloured 
flowers of no great beauty. 
" Siphocampylus manetticeflorus (manet- 
tia-flowered). — A beautiful dwarf suffruticose 
stove plant, with neat foliage, and numerous 
scarlet-and-yellow tubular flowers. 
" Hoya bella (beautiful). — The most lovely 
of all the Hoyas, and with the habit of a 
small iEschynanth ; the flowers resemble an 
