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THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OP GARDENING. 
conservatories, as well as those of private individuals, been enriched with 
specimens of many rare plants, which could scarcely have reached them 
by any other means. Thus, under the modified conditions with regard 
to climate, and the renovating processes in relation to water and air, 
which we have attempted to illustrate, the botanist and horticulturist 
may be said to have entered on new and unexplored fields of vegetable 
research, and to have acquired the means of transporting to their own 
soil the varied and most delicate plants of every region of the earth.— 
(Gard. Mag., vol. xv. p. 481.) 
REVIEWS. 
The Botanical Magazine for September contains :— 
Sida ( Abutilon ) Bedfordiana , Hook. This is a small tree, discovered 
in the Organ mountains by Mr. Gardner, who has lately returned from 
Brazil, and its flowers strongly resemble those of Abutilon striatum. It 
flowered for the first time in the stove at Woburn in November last. 
Marianthus coeruleo-punctatus , Link, Klotz, and Otto. This beautiful 
plant has been already figured in our Number for July, Plate vii. 
Hypocalyptus obcordatus , Thun. A leguminous plant, before figured in 
the Botanist. 
Bossicea tenuicaulis , Grah. An abundant-flowering species from the 
Swan River, introduced in 1836. 
Oxalis lasiandra , Grah. A very handsome species from Mexico. 
Pleurothallis picta , Hook. A very pretty Mexican epiphyte, with 
pink flowers. 
Tiie Botanical Magazine for October contains:— 
Epidendrum ( Encyclium) calocheilum , Hook. An orchideous plant 
from Guatemala, introduced in 1839. 
Salma confertijlora, var. A splendid variety of this new Salvia, with 
very short flowers. 
Mormodes pardina , Bate. A beautiful orchideous plant, with flowers 
of a bright yellow, spotted with brown. 
Tithonia ovata , Hook. A weedy-looking perennial from Mexico, with 
yellow flowers, belonging to Composites. 
Strobilanthes sessilis , Nees. A beautiful plant, belonging to Buelliacece ; 
introduced from Bombay in 1833. 
