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PART II. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
EXTRACTS. 
FLORICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. 
New and Rare Plants, Figured in the Botanical Periodicals for October 
CLASS I.—DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS OR EXOGENES. 
CARYOPHYLLE.E. 
Lychuis Pyrenaica, Pyrenean Catchflv.—A little perennial with light rose- 
coloured leaves, valuable only for botanical purposes. An inhabitant of rockv 
places in the Basses Pyrenees. It has probably of late been only known in a 
state of cultivation ; it is suited for an alpine border or rock-work, and succeeds 
well in a pot, being perfectly hardy.— Bot. Mag. 
THYMELEiE. 
Pimelea arenaria, Sand Pimelea.—A small shrub with white flowers, na¬ 
tive of New Zealand, where it was discovered by Mr. Allan Cunningham, in 
1826.— Bot. Mag. It requires the shelter of the greenhouse, and should be pot¬ 
ted in sandy loam and peat. It may be increased by cuttings. 
EUPHORBIACE.E. 
Plagianthus diraricatus, Spreading Plagianthus. A small shrub with 
cream-coloured, small flowers, a native of New Zealand. Hitherto nothing ap¬ 
pears to have been kuown of this singular plant, except through the imperfect 
ligure and description of Forster, who discovered it in its native country. Mr. 
Allan Cunningham found it in the same country, and introduced it to the Kew 
Gardens.— Bot. Mag. 
MYRTACEJE. 
Bealfortia dampieri, Dampier’s Beaufortia.—Apparently a dwarf shrub. 
Flowers are numerous, rose-coloured, collected in whorls below the extremity of 
a branch. A rare plant, and one of the few shrubs to be found upon the barren, 
loose, sandy downs, of dirk Hartog’s Island, off Shark’s Bay, on the West coast 
of Australia, where its seeds were gathered in 1822, during the surveying voyage 
of Capt. P. P. King, and from which the living plants, which have repeatedly 
flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew, were raised.— Bot. Mag. It requires the 
greenhouse, should be potted in loam and peat, and may be propagated by cut¬ 
tings. 
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