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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
biaceous plants, named by Mr. Salisbury in compliment to Dr. 
Charles Bouvard, who was formerly superintendent of the Jardin 
du Roi at Paris. In most of the species the flowers are small; 
here they are large, pure white, and exhaling a delicious jessa¬ 
mine-like fragrance, whence it becomes a most desirable stove- 
plant. The plant was received by the Earl of Derby from Ifzabel. 
It inhabits also Santa Anista, according to Humboldt, where it is 
called Flor de San Juan, and the vicinity of Quaretano and Hua- 
najuato ; it has also been gathered in Guatemala by Mr. Skinner. 
For habit and form of corolla this is closely allied to Hindsia ; 
but the seeds, according to Cavanilles’ figure, are those of Cof- 
feacece , not of Cinchonacece.—Bot. Mag. 4223. 
Acanthace,®. —Biandria Monogynia. 
Eranthemum albiflorum. We are so accustomed to the bright 
blue of the flowers of an Eranthemum, that it is not easy at first 
to persuade one’s self that the present plant is one of that genus, 
with its long, almost virgate racemes of snow-white flowers ; yet 
a nearer inspection will show that it has all the essential charac¬ 
ters of it. The fertile stamens, it is true, are not exserted, but 
neither are they in E. montanum, an acknowledged species of 
Eranthemum. It was raised from seed from Bahia, by Messrs. 
Lucombe, Price, and Co. of Exeter ; its foliage is large and hand¬ 
some, dark green, and its long spikes or racemes of pure white 
blossoms render the plant a pretty, though not a gaily coloured, 
object. It is cultivated in the stove.— Bot. Mag. 4225. 
Cucurbitaceje.- —Moncecia Triandria. 
Trichosanthes colubrina. Seeds of this curious Serpent Cu¬ 
cumber were received by Sir John Hay Williams, Bart., of Bodel- 
wyddan, near St. Asaph, from Puerto Cabello, in Equatorial 
America, and under the care of Mr. Sparrow, the gardener at 
Bodelwyddan, soon produced young plants. In growth the 
species resembles a cucumber, with leaves ten or twelve inches 
across, and varying in form from heart-shaped to three or five- 
lobed. The flowers are white, and beautifully cut into delicate 
threads, whence the botanical name, Trichosanthes, which Sir 
James Smith translated Iiairblossom. The fruits,which hang down 
from the rafter to which the vines of the plant are trained, re¬ 
semble serpents, are six feet long, and when unripe are singularly 
