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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
for the purpose of trying its effects, one plant was potted in it; 
but has by no means the healthy appearance of those potted in 
rough sandy peat.— Bot. Reg. 3-47. 
PoLEMONiACEiE. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Cyananthus lobatus (Wallich). A delicate, hardy, little her¬ 
baceous plant, with small fleshy roots, slender stems clothed 
with alternate hairy, notched, bright green leaves, surmounted 
with a solitary deep blue flower, having a five-lobed spreading 
limb. It appears to be a native of the higher ranges of the 
Himalayas, and was raised in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society from seed said to have been collected in Chinese Tartary, 
on the snowy passes at an elevation of 12,000 feet, in October 
1844. It is increased freely by cuttings, and flowers in August 
and September.— Bot. Reg. 6-47. 
Nympeleace.®. —Polyandria Polygynia. 
Victoria Regia (Lindley). The ‘Botanical Magazine’ for 
January, is entirely taken up with an able and interesting paper 
from the pen of the Editor, Sir W. J. Hooker, on this pre¬ 
eminently beautiful, rare, and celebrated aquatic, from which we 
extract the following particulars of its history and character. 
“ Although to our own country belongs the honour of first 
fully detailing in 1837, the particulars relative to this extraordinary 
Water-lily, and clearly defining its generic distinctions, yet the 
earliest mention of it in print, so far as we can find, was in 1832 
in Froriep’s ‘Notizen,’ vol. 35, p. 9. 
It is there described as a new species of Euryale , under the 
name of E. Amazonica , so called by Dr. Poeppig from the cir¬ 
cumstance of that distinguished botanist and traveller, having- 
found it in the Amazon River of South America. Afterwards (in 
1836) he alludes to it in the 2d vol. of his * Reise in Chili, Peru, 
&c.’ p. 432 ; but only says, “ In the Igaripes, which are branches 
of the Amazon river, bearing no peculiar appellation, yet worthy 
to rank from their size, with rivers of the second magnitude in 
Europe, grow some aquatic plants, whose almost fabulous di¬ 
mensions may vie with the celebrated Rafflesia of India, while 
they excel that wonderful production in beauty of inflorescence. 
Previously, however, to this period, M. D’Orbigny in 1828, sent 
