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are particularly brilliant. The plant was raised in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society from seeds received from Frederick 
Scheer, Esq., who obtained them from the north of Mexico.— 
Bot. Reg. 14-47. 
PrimulacevE. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Primula Munroi (Lind.) In many respects this is strikingly 
like P. involucrata, and it may be a mere variety of that species. 
But if the distinctions admitted by botanists among the European 
so-called species are valid, then must this be regarded as essen¬ 
tially different. It is a yellower green; it is much larger; its 
leaves are slightly cordate and extremely blunt; its flowers are 
twice as large, and the calyx is of quite a different form. Instead 
of being taper, it is prismatical; instead of being contracted 
above the base and then bulging out, it is gradually narrowed 
into the pedicle ; and instead of being shorter than the tube of 
the corolla, it is as long ; its teeth, too, are much shorter than 
those of P. involucrata. Like the latter, it is a charming little 
alpine perennial, which grows freely in a mixture of loam, sandy 
peat, and leaf-mould, and flowers from March to May, in either 
a cold pit or the open border. The white flowers are deliciously 
fragrant. It was raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society 
from seeds presented by Captain Wm. Munro, in April, 1845, 
and was stated to have been collected at an elevation of 11,500 
feet, on the mountains of the north of India, growing in the 
neighbourhood of water.— Bot. Reg. 15-47. 
NepenthacetE. —Dicecia Monadelphia. 
Nepenthes Rafflesiana (Jack). To Dr. Jack is due the dis¬ 
covery of this remarkable species of Pitcher plant, in the island 
of Singapore, in 1819, but no plants of the Nepenthes Rafflesiana 
ever reached Europe alive, till the Royal Gardens were supplied 
with a case of them through the kindness of Capt. Bethune, R.N., 
who, on his return from his scientific mission to Borneo, had a 
Wardian case filled with them; and so well were the plants esta¬ 
blished in the case, and so great was the care taken of them 
overland from India, that they were as healthy on their arrival 
at Kew in 1845, as the day they were transplanted from their 
native glen in Singapore. Dr. Jack well observes : “ This is the 
