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PLANTS FIGURED IN BOTANICAL PERIODICALS, 
which ours is entirely destitute. In the Calcutta garden, the two 
plants maintain that character, although in other respects they are alike. 
It is possible that, under particular circumstances, the bulbs, or pseudo- 
bulbs, may become elongated into clavate stems ; and, if so, the Silhet 
plant would be the same species with ours from Nipaul.” 
Beautiful as our specimen is, “ it is still inferior to what is pro¬ 
duced in India; so that cultivators have still a point to gain in respect 
to this charming species.” 
Dr. Lindley adds accounts of other species found near Sidney Cove, 
m New Holland. 
Sweet’s British Flower-Garden, continued by D. Don, Esq. 
The number for January contains — 
1. Agrostemma Bungeana. Dr. Bunge’s Scarlet Campion. A hardy 
perennial, requiring a loamy soil, and is increased by seeds, which it 
ripens freely. The drawing was made by Mr. James Macnab, from a 
plant which was received from Messrs. Booths’ Flotbeck Nurseries, 
near Hamburgh, by Dr. Neil, of Edinburgh. Mr. Don thinks it is a 
native of Asiatic Russia. 
2. Verbena rug os a. A didynamous perennial, belonging to the 
natural order to which the genus gives a title. It is a very showy 
border plant; was raised from seeds received from Buenos Ayres by 
Mr. Cameron, curator of the Birmingham Botanic Garden. It is allied 
to V. venosa, but is perfectly distinct by its stalked leaves being cor¬ 
date at the base, and having hairy corollas, &c. 
3. Nierembergia calycina. Large-calyxed Nierembergia. Linnsean 
class and order, Pentandria Monogynia ; natural order, Solanece . 
“ This remarkable species, which combines entirely the habit of the 
group Petunia with the corolla of the normal Nierembergice , was 
gathered by Mr. Tweedie on the banks of the river Uruguay, in the 
republic of Buenos Ayres; and from seeds transmitted by him the 
plant was raised in the Botanic Garden at Glasgow, in 1834. 
4. Daphne odora: var. rubra. Red-flowered fragrant Daphne. 
An erect, evergreen, bushy shrub, about two feet high, imported from 
China about four years ago, and flowered in the collection of Mr. 
George Smith, nurseryman at Islington, in the latter end of November. 
It appears to be pretty hardy, and is a valuable acquisition, being 
finely scented. The flowers are purple, and appear in heads at the 
points of the branches. 
Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, for January, contains— 
1. Lxora Bandhuca, one of the most beautiful species of this most 
