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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Dendroides. Having the general outline of a tree, though of 
dwarfer character. 
Dens. A tooth. 
Dentate. When the margin is cut into many small angles re¬ 
sembling the teeth of a saw. 
Denticulate. Having small teeth. 
Denudatus. Bare, without the ordinary covering. 
Dependens. Having a trailing or pendent habit. 
Depressed. An outline which is wider than it is high, verti¬ 
cally flattened. 
Descendens. Synonymous with dependens, passing downwards. 
Detectus. Naked. 
Determinate. Having a positive limit. 
Deviate, Deviatus. Turned out of the ordinary course, upside 
down, reversed. 
Diachyma. The interior organism of a leaf, the substance con¬ 
tained between the two surfaces. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
ScroptiulAR iACEiE . —Didynamia Angiospermia . 
Chcenostoma polyanthum. This truly beautiful little plant is 
a native of South Africa, about Algoa Bay, and the Zwartkops 
River, in Uitenhage, where it was found by Ecklon. In habit it 
is dwarf and bushy, its leaves are small, of an ovate form, and its 
flowers, produced very profusely in large racemes, are of a blueish 
lilac colour. It is in short a very desirable species, and capable 
of being made eminently useful. Treated as an annual it may be 
had in flower the greater part of the year. This property con¬ 
sidered in connexion with the colour of its flowers, either em¬ 
ployed to decorate the border in the open air or ornament the 
greenhouse, will recommend it without further comment. 
In cultivation nothing is much more easily managed ; seeds are 
produced very abundantly, and cuttings strike with great readi¬ 
ness ; it will grow well in any good garden soil. When being 
treated as an annual, with a view to keep up a succession of 
flowers, the time when these are wished to be had must regulate 
the period at which the seeds are sown. — Pax. Mag . Bot. 
