1 !(> Jlevicws and Extracts. — Hurticalliire, ^’C. 
is an slender, green-housqj plant, the }Iuveu Lanccoldta^ \xiv. Unr- 
uri.s, Linear-leaved lanceolate Hovea;—it is a native of New Holland, from 
whence it was introduced some years ago; it differs from the true Hovea 
iMiicculdta, o\\\y in the narrowness of its leaves, the flowers grow in pairs, 
from the axillce of the leaves, and are of a violet-purple colour, v/ith darker 
coloured wings. MaxlUaria Four-cornered Maxillaria; this spe¬ 
cies is deficient in beauty, the flowers being of a greenish yellow colour, but 
remarkable for its rich fragrance, which much resembles fresh violets; it is a 
native of Rio Janiero, from whence it was imported by the Horticultural 
Society. Salvia Folionay Leafy Mexican Sage;—a. native of Mexico, where 
seeds were collected by Mr. Graham; it is a hardy annual, flowering in Au¬ 
gust and September, the colour of the flower is bluish purple, lidnksia 
i^avrcifolia^ Oak-leaved Eanksia;—this shrub is a native of Lewin’s Land, 
in New Holland, whence it is said to have been introduced in 180.5; it ap¬ 
pears to flower very rarely ; the heads of the flowers are on short stalks, and 
about three inches in length, the segments of the calyx are remarkably re- 
ilexecl, and each elongated into a slender, subulate, brown point, which is what 
Mr. Brown calls being aristate, covered with hairs of the same nature as those 
upon the rest of the calyx, except that they are shorter. Clieiranthus Matd~ 
Changeable Wall-flower;—a beautiful half-shrubby plant, a native of 
Tenerifte; it requires the protection of a green-house in winter, and may be 
propagated by cuttings of the young wood, struck in heat, under a bell-glass; 
the colour of the flower when it opens is pale lilac, which gradually alters to 
purple. Ranfincnlus Cvelicus, \xv. Macrophyllns', —it was introduced so long 
ago as the year 16.58, and cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Oxford, but seems 
latterly to have been entirely lost; the specimen from which the editor’s draw¬ 
ing was taken, was found in Teneriffe or the neighbouring islands, by P. B. 
Webb, Esq. it requires the protection of a frame in winter; the colour of the 
flower is yellow. K'lluphia Mackaidna^ Mr. Mackay’s Eulophia;—this most 
lovely species is, of all the Orchideous tribe, one of the most deserving culti¬ 
vation; it thrives well in pots filled with moss or rotten wood, and is easily 
increased by separating the pseudo-bulbs with a few roots attached to them ; 
it is a native of Brazil, whence it appears to have been introduced by Mr. 
Mackay, ofthe Dublin College Botanic Garden; the flowers are less perish¬ 
able than those of many of the Orchis tribe; their sepals and petals are green¬ 
ish, spotted with irregular blotches of brownish purple; the labellum is a 
bright blue, deeply stained with darker lines, and has at its base a remarkable 
fleshy, elevated, lunate, transverse ridge. Cassia llerbcriidna, Mr. Herbert’s 
Cassia;—a native of Barbadoes, whence seeds were received by the Hon. and 
Rev. William Herbert; it requires the heat of a stove, where it forms a shrub, 
about eight or nine feet high. (The plate for this was given in the number for 
.July, fol. 1422.) The colour of the flower is yellow’. 
2. —Curtis’s Botanical jMaoazine, &c: (Xevv Series) Edited by 
Dr. Hooker. Monthly luiraberp, Ss.inl. coloured, jdaiii. 
No. 56, Fou August, 
Contains a variety of specimens, which, though not of so ornamental a nature 
as those contained in the Botanical Register, have, nevertheless, many inter¬ 
esting accounts attached to them, and upon the whole, the present number, 
we think no way inferior to those preceding. It commences with Xan- 
fhdc/iynucs Ddteis, Sweet-fruited Xanthoebymus;—the plant Jrom which the 
