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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OE NEW PLANTS. 
EupiiORBiACEiE .—Monoscia Monadelphia. 
Jatropha podagrica (Hooker). A very remarkable n£w 
Jatropba from Santa Martha, New Grenada, with a singularly 
distorted stem and branches; much swollen at their bases, pale 
greenish-brown ; the main trunk and old branches marked with 
the almost obliterated scars of the fallen leaves, the younger 
portion of the branches of the plant showing the much larger 
scars of recently shed leaves, rendered more conspicuous by the 
persistent, fimbriated, and glandular stipules, one on each side 
of the large scar. The cyme of flowers is large, and of a rich 
orange scarlet. It flowers at almost all seasons of the year.— 
Bot. Mag. 4376. 
Saxifrage^.— Hexandria Digynia. 
Anopterus glandulosus (Labiil). A truly handsome evergreen 
shrub, native of Yan Diemen’s Land, and introduced to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, by Ronald Gunn, Esq. We have hitherto 
treated it as a greenhouse plant; but in the milder parts of 
England, near the coast, it would, in all probability, bear the 
open air all the year round, perhaps, even about London, if 
trained to a wall having a good aspect. Its season of flowering 
(winter) would be unfavorable to the blossoming in such a 
situation ; but the fine dark green foliage, not much unlike that 
of Photinia serrulata, is at all times a recommendation. The 
racemes of flowers are axillary, at first covered with large mem¬ 
branous, coloured deciduous bracts; pedicles single flowered, an 
inch and more long; calyx ' deeply six-partite; corolla of six 
erecto-patent, concave, nearly orbicular petals, rather large, white, 
tinged with rose colour.— Bot. Mag. 4377. 
Acanthacejl. — Biandria Monogynia. 
Thyracanthus Strictus (Nees). Syn. T. Lemairianus, Eran- 
themum coccineum , Aphelandra longiscapa , Salpixantha coccinea , 
Justicia longiracemosa. Having received this really handsome 
stove plant from the Continent, from different cultivators, under 
the garden names above quoted, and these being given as 
synonymes to Nees ab <Esenbeck’s T . Lemairianus , we cannot 
doubt it is that plant of which the native country is said to be 
unknown. We are equally certain that it is the T. strictus of 
