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common length of the spurs, we fear that, as seen in our figure, 
upon a white ground, or cultivated as a solitary specimen, it 
possesses but few attractions; yet, growing in masses, as it does, 
on its native hills, it must present a very striking appearance ; 
for James, in Long’s * Travels,’ asserts that, “it forms a splendid 
acquisition to the flora of the United States and Mr. Burke, in 
his letter from Fort Hall, says : “ I found, near Medicine River, 
a most beautiful Columbine, which I have never seen elsewhere, 
growing at the foot of a hill, in rich loamy soil, in great abund¬ 
ance. The flowers very large, beautifully white, variously tinged 
above with light blue. In my opinion, it is not only the queen 
of Columbines, but the most beautiful of all herbaceous plants, 
and I never felt so much pleasure in finding a plant before.” 
We must therefore endeavour to increase it so as to fill an entire 
bed with it, and we think it is eminently suited to such an object. 
In the name I have adopted for the plant, I trust that I shall 
receive the sanction of the American botanists. A. ccerulea has 
assuredly the right of priority, and Mr. James does speak of the 
flowers as “blue,” but Nuttall describes them as “ ochroleucous 
and among our numerous specimens, living and dried, white, 
with an ochroleucous or purplish green, rarely with a blue tinge 
(and never wholly blue or approaching to it), are the prevailing 
colours. The name, therefore, of ccerulea tends to mislead, while 
that of leptoceras is unexceptionable. The root is perennial; 
the stem herbaceous, a foot to a foot and a half high ; the leaves 
chiefly radical, and those petiolate; the flowers large, paniculate, 
often three inches across, white, or cream white, with a tinge of 
a blue, more generally of purplish-green.— Bot. Mag. 4407. 
Myrtace m . —Icosandria Monogynia . 
lambosa Malaccensis (De Candolle). Native of the Malay 
Islands. Cultivated also in the West Indies, on account of its 
esculent, but, as it is said, not very highly-flavoured fruit. One 
very handsome plant, sent to Kew by Dr. Wallich, from the 
Calcutta Garden, flowers in the stove in June. It forms a 
charming shrub, six to eight feet high, with large, glossy, coria¬ 
ceous, oblong, acuminate leaves, tapering at the base into a short, 
very thick footstalk. The cymes, of richly-coloured, purple-red 
flovvers, are sessile, or nearly so, arising from the old wood just 
