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is an open piece of ground, quite clear of trees, but sheltered 
from the sweeping winds of the west, and if it is naturally of 
an open loamy texture, it will not require much preparation; 
otherwise, it will be necessary to dig in a good coat of cowdung 
upon light land, and hotbed manure and road-scrapings if 
inclined to be clayey. 
Florista. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
AcANTHACEiE. —Bidynamia Angiospermia . 
Goldfussia isophylla (Nees). A species in many respects 
allied to the well-known G. anisosphylla , but at once distinguished j 
as the name implies, by the pairs of leaves being alike; whereas 
in the last-mentioned species there is a singular disparity, for 
while one of each pair is larger and broader than any of G. 
isophylla , the other and opposite one is reduced to a subulate 
scale. The flowers here, too, though rather smaller, are more 
copious, and the plant being more bushy, its numerous blue 
flowers render it a most desirable inmate of a stove during 
winter, the season of blossoming. It is a native of the East 
Indies, and was introduced by Dr. Wallich.— Bot. Mag. 4363. 
Pas sifloriace^ . —Polyandria Pentagynia . 
Smeathmannia pubescens (Brown). At Tab. 4194, we repre¬ 
sented the rare Smeathmannia laevigata , and now we have the 
satisfaction of publishing the equally scarce S. pubeseens, a native 
of the same country, viz. Sierra Leone, and imported by the 
same nobleman, Lord Derby, through the same medium, Mr. 
Whitfield. It flowered, probably for the first time in Europe, in 
the stove in the Royal Gardens of Kew, in February 1848. It is 
a more showy species than S. laevigata , having larger leaves and 
larger blossoms, the latter equally destitute of fragrance; they 
are borne singly on a short axillary peduncle, the perianth is of 
ten pieces or sepals, in two rows, the outer of which might be 
considered the calyx, but that they gradually pass into petals, 
the exterior sepal green, three-ribbed, and hairy, the rest 
gradually more petaloid, the inner white, all of them acute and 
spreading.— Bot. Mag. 4364. 
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