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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Leguminos^. —Decandria Monogynia. 
Daviesiu physodes. A very singular species of the very pretty 
genus Daviesia, in habit, as Mr. Bentham well remarks, resem¬ 
bling Genista Scorpius; but why named physodes by Mr. Cun¬ 
ningham is not apparent, for (unless it be in the fruit, which is, 
however, not noticed by Mr. Cunningham) there is nothing in¬ 
flated or bladdery about the plant. The whole is rigid and 
glaucous ; the lower leaves often small and terete, the upper ones 
oblong and obliquely cuneate, so that the shape a good deal re¬ 
sembles a hatchet, more dilated at the upper angle, mucronated 
on the other, and marked with two nerves on each side. The 
flowers are exceedingly handsome, variegated with several colours, 
orange-red, green, and black, produced copiously on the branches, 
and they continue a long time in perfection, so that the plant is 
highly ornamental to the greenhouse in the month of April and 
May. It is a native of Western Australia. The precise locality 
where Mr. Cunningham discovered it is not recorded: but Mr. 
Drummond and Mr, Preiss have detected it in the Swan River 
settlement; and from seeds sent by the former of these two bo¬ 
tanists our plants were reared at the Royal Gardens at Kew.— 
Bot. Mag. 4244. 
RuTACEiE .—Decandria Monogynia. 
Briostemon scahrum. The present, till now unpublished, 
species is a member of an unassuming, but very attractive, genus 
of hardy greenhouse plants. It has long been in the collection 
of the Messrs. Loddiges, of the Hackney Nursery, who imported 
seeds from Sydney, New South Wales, many years ago. Like 
B. huxifolium , it flowers long and very freely in spring and 
summer; and though its flowers are not so large, it is superior 
to that species in being devoid of its stiffness and rigidly formal 
appearance, but has not its lively green foliage. In habit it is 
rather dwarf, branches much, and in a free and elegant manner. 
The flowers are pink.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
CoNVQLVULACEiE. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Calystegia puhescens. This curious plant approaches very 
