PLANTS 
FIGURED 
IN BOTANICAL PERIODICALS. 
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NOTICES OF PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING 
BOTANICAL PERIODICALS, VIZ. 
Edwards’ Botanical Register, continued by Dr. Lindley 
The January number contains — 
1. Cosmelia rubra. Red Cosmelia. A handsome greenhouse plant, 
with the habit of an Epacris, and belonging to the natural order Epa- 
cridece. The dowers are terminal at the points of the twigs, and mostly 
hanging downwards; their colour is reddish purple; their form a 
bellying tube, three-quarters of an inch in length. It is said to be 
partial to marshy places on the south coast of New Holland. It belongs 
to the fifth class and first order of Linnaeus. 
2. Lasthenia Calif ornica. Downy Lasthenia. A small syngenesious 
annual, flowering about six weeks, at different periods of the year, 
according to the season at which the seeds are sown. It is a plant of 
very little beauty. 
3. Aristolocliia fcetena. Stinking Birthwort. A West Indian plant, 
which flowered lately in the stove of Mrs. Marryat, at Wimbledon. 
Like all other Birthworts, the flowers are grotesque in shape, and, 
like some of them, diffuse a most abominable scent. The flowers 
are large, and so marbled with purple and dirty yellow, that they are 
a puzzling and tedious task for an artist to represent properly. This 
genus, placed in Gynandria Hexandria by Linnaeus, gives a title to 
one of the natural orders of Jussieu, viz. Aristolochacece. 
4. Pleurothallis picta. Painted Pleurothallis. A small orchideous 
plant from Demerara, somewhat similar, but different from, P. Grobyi. 
This species, though in all its parts diminutive, is, like many other 
small plants, very curious and beautiful when closely examined. Its 
tufts of foliage are rapidly formed under good management; but it 
seems to require the close atmosphere of a bell-glass.” 
5. Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis, Single-flowered Chinese Rose-mallow. 
The double varieties of this plant have been long in our collections; 
but the single one is comparatively rare, and much more beautiful than 
the double sorts. It is common all over India as well as China. 
6. Pimelea ligus Irina. Privet-leaved Pimelea. This is a hardy 
greenhouse plant, readily multiplied by cuttings, but requires much 
fresh air in winter, otherwise it is liable to damp off. 
7. Dendrobium densiflorum. Dense-flowered Dendrobium. “ This 
lovely orchidea says Dr. Wallich, in his splendid Plantce Asiaticce, 
“ comes so near to Roxburgh’s Dendrobium clavatum , that I should 
consider them as identical, if he had not ascribed bulbs to his plant, of 
