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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Ranunculace^. —Polyandria Polygynia. 
Anemone japonica. A most beautiful species, not inferior to 
the Chinese Chrysanthemum, or even the Anemone coronaria of 
the East. For its introduction to this country the public is in¬ 
debted to the Horticultural Society, who received it from Mr. 
Fortune in 1844. That indefatigable collector met with it at 
Shanghae, the Japanese port of China. It has flowered this 
autumn in great beauty in the garden of the Society, in a green¬ 
house, its flowering-stems being nearly two feet high. It may, 
however, be expected to be better suited to the open border, at 
least during summer, and it is probable that it will not suffer 
even from the cold of winter. 
According to Siebold, it inhabits damp woods on the edges of 
rivulets, on a mountain called Kifune, near the city of Miako in 
Japan, and it is much cultivated by the Japanese for the sake of 
its beautiful purple blossoms; and, as it grows at considerable 
elevations on the mountains in the centre of Japan, he infers'it 
will bear even a continental winter.— Bot. Reg. 66—45. 
OxALiDACEiE. —Beccindria Pentagynia. 
Oxalis sensitiva. This curious little sensitive plant often comes 
up among mould received from the East Indies, and, being an 
annual, will sometimes take possession of the soil in the garden- 
pots of hothouses, so as to become troublesome. It is found wild 
over all the tropics of Asia; or at least, if there are several spe¬ 
cies confounded under the same name, some one or other is there 
found. The kind under notice was raised in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, from seed sent from China by Mr. Fortune; 
it has small bright green pinnate leaves, and little orange-yellow 
flowers.— Bot. Reg. 68—45. 
CYRTANDRACEiE. —Diandria Monogynia. 
Rhynchoglossum Zeglanicum. A lovely little plant, sent from 
Ceylon by Mr. Gardner, with flowers of a bright blue, arranged 
in long one-sided racemes, and leaves with singular unequal sides, 
like those of many Begonia , and of a peculiar tender green. It 
