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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
CoNVOLVULACEiE .— Peyitandria Monogynia. 
Ipomcea pulchella (Roth). A very handsome Bindweed, which 
would much better deserve the name of “ pulchra” than “ pul- 
chella .” It was sent, in December, 1845, from the stove of 
Mrs. Sherbourne, near Prescott, Lancashire, the seeds having 
been received by that lady from Ceylon. It is a climbing plant, 
with an herbaceous, angular stem and 5-part leaves, the petioles 
of which and the peduncles of the flowers are spirally twisted. 
The latter are axillary and mostly one-flowered. The flowers 
are large, of a uniform, rich, dark purple ; the tube is rather 
strikingly inflated immediately above the calyx, so as to be bell¬ 
shaped as far as the faux. The limb is spreading, of five 
rounded, rather waved, emarginate lobes, much plaited between 
the lobes.— Bot. Mag. 4305. 
LEGUMiNOSiE. —Polygamia Polyandria. 
Acacia celastrifolia (Bentham). If a gracefully formed, much 
branching, evergreen shrub, with rather dense and broadish, 
bright, glaucous, green leaves (phyllodia), whose ultimate branches 
are literally bowed down with the abundance of yellow heads of 
highly fragrant flowers for nearly two months of the year, and 
those almost of the winter season, can have any claim to cultiva¬ 
tion, then may Acacia celastrifolia be confidently recommended. 
We raised it from Swan River seed, sent by Mr. Drummond, and 
our plant is now nearly six feet high; so loaded with fragrant 
blossoms, that it would be in itself sufficient to scent the entire 
house. The odour a good deal resembles that of white-thorn, 
but is more delicate. Although very different it will rank near 
A. myrtifolia. — Bot. Mag. 2306. 
Rubiace^e. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Gardenia Malleifera (Hooker). My first knowledge of this 
fine plant, with its large and fragrant flowers (not unlike the 
odour of primroses), and extraordinarily large and clapper-shaped 
stigma, so large and so heavy that it rests, as it were, on the 
lower side of the flower, was from dried specimens sent to me by 
Miss Turner, daughter of the then Governor of Sierra Leone; 
and I have long had what I consider the same plant, but with 
