DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Primulace^e. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Primula involucrata. This is a neat and very desirable sweet- 
scented, little hardy alpine perennial, which grows freely in a soil 
composed of sandy loam and leaf-mould. It attains a height 
of six inches, flowers from March to May, and sometimes a second 
time during the growing season ; the flowers are pure white. It 
was raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society from seeds 
from the north of India, presented by Captain W. Munro, in 
April, 1845. It was said to have been found in company with 
Cyananthus lobatus, in the neighbourhood of water, at an elevation 
of 11,500 feet above the sea.— Bot. Reg. 31-46. 
Saxifragace^e. —Becandria Bigynia. 
Saxifraga thysanodes. A pretty, robust, hardy, perennial, 
growing not more than six or eight inches in height, and flower¬ 
ing in April. It has rather large, hirsute, crenated leaves, and 
compact, nearly simple, inflorescence. The roots were transmitted 
last year from India to the Horticultural Society.— Bot. Reg. 
33-46. 
Onagrarie^e. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Fuchsia macrantha. If this be not the most brilliantly-co¬ 
loured of Fuchsias, it certainly can boast the largest flowers, and 
it bears them more copiously than any other species. It is, more¬ 
over, quite an undescribed species—first, however, found by Mr. 
Mathews, climbing on trees in lofty mountains at Andimarca, Peru, 
and next by Mr. Veitch’s collector, Mr. W. Lobb, in woods near 
Chasula, Colombia, at an elevation of 5000 feet above the sea. 
The absence of petals in the flower of our plant, and the imper¬ 
fect descriptions of F. apetala , would t first lead to the suppo¬ 
sition that it was that rare and splendid species ; but if the two 
plants be compared, or if F. macrantha be compared with Ruiz 
and Pavon’s figure of F. apetala , the differences will be very ap¬ 
parent. It is quite a hardy greenhouse species, and promises to 
succeed well on the open border in the summer months. The 
