DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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vations and directions of the most valuable kind; in short, Mr. 
Paul has so admirably united the utile with the dulce , that while 
the book is got up in a style suitable for the drawing-room, it 
contains matter of so thoroughly practical a nature, as to convey 
all the information that can be necessary to the most successful 
cultivation of the queen of flowers. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
MELASTOMACEiE. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Medinilla speciosa (Blume). The genus Medinilla, remarkable 
for the beauty of the foliage and the delicacy of the flowers, was 
established by Gaudichaud, in the botany of Freycinet’s voyage, 
in honour of Don Jose de Medinilla y Pineda, Governor of the 
Marianne Islands, in which group the first species (M. rosea) 
was discovered. Blume has since increased the number of spe¬ 
cies very considerably, and no less than twenty-five stand re- 
corded by Walpers. M. speciosa , as its name would imply, is 
among the most beautiful, and perhaps exceeds them all in the 
fine panicle of delicate rose-coloured flowers gracefully drooping 
from among the rich green and ample foliage. It is an inhabitant 
of Java, and is among the treasures of that island sent home to 
Messrs. Veitch and Son by Mr. Thomas Lobb. The plant attains 
a height of four or more feet, with erect di- or trichotomous 
angular stems; the leaves are large, entire, nearly sessile, oval- 
acuminate, and generally placed in whorls; the flowers are 
produced on a terminal dense panicle or thyrsus; the main pe¬ 
duncle and its branches are red, as also is the calyx of the flowers, 
while the petals themselves are delicate rose colour, from among 
which proceed the remarkable large, deep red, curved anthers. 
The species is No. 836 of Mr. Gumming’s specimens from the 
Pliillippine Islands.— Bot. Mag. 4321. 
Bjjbikcbje.— -Pent andria Monogynia. 
Gardenia longistyla (Hooker). Another beautiful Gardenia , 
as I consider it to be, rather than a Randia (De Candolle) from 
tropical western Africa; for the introduction of which our stoves 
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