NOTICES OF BOTANICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
has been lately introduced into this country by Mr. Knight, of the 
King's Road, Chelsea, along with many others of the same tribe. This 
is said to be the handsomest of the yellow-flowered kinds. 
4. Campanula Loreyi. Lorey’s Bell-flower. A most elegant and 
showy annual of easy culture, thriving in almost any kind of soil, where 
it will continue itself by shedding seed. It is a native of Italy, and 
has been in our collections about ten years. There are two varieties. 
Paxton’s Magazine of Botany for April contains: — 
1. Eschscholtzia crocea. Saffron-flowered Eschscholtzia. A more 
showy species than the E. Californica. It may be propagated by 
divisions, or, which is better, by seed, sown as soon as ripe, on a warm 
spot, where the seedlings will stand the winter without protection. 
2. Ipomea Horsfallia. Mrs. Horsfall's Ipomea. The seeds of this 
elegant plant were received either from India or Africa. It is a 
climber, and is covered in autumn with a profusion of red flowers. It 
belongs to Convolvulacece . 
3. Musa Cavendishia. The Duke of Devonshire’s Banana. This 
interesting new species of Musa is said to be a native of China, and 
it is supposed that there is only one other plant of it in Europe. 
Mr. Paxton has been fortunate in fruiting it at Chatsworth ; and, from 
the very full account given by Mr. P., it promises to be a valuable 
addition to our stock of tropical fruits. The other species of Musa 
which have been long in our collections, and frequently fruited, are 
such majestic plants, that very few stoves are lofty enough to allow of 
their rising to their full and fruiting height. But this new acquisition 
yields its fruit when only a few feet high, so that any common-sized 
stove may contain as many plants as will yield a supply of fruit for 
the table for several months. Mr. P. has given in this number not 
only an accurate coloured figure of the flowers and fruit of the M. Caven¬ 
dishia, but has added an interesting history of the other species hereto¬ 
fore known in European collections. The oldest one of our stoves is 
the M. paradisiaca of the East Indies, but the commonest cultivated 
species in the West Indies is the M. sapientum or banana. Shady 
walks of these are attached to every plantation and to every house or 
cottage in Jamaica. As the banana is perennial, and ever throwing up 
a succession of young stems, some one or other of the plants are yielding 
fruit the whole year round, and this is very often the chief part of the 
food of the owner and his family. Three dozen of the fruit are 
sufficient to serve one man a whole week instead of bread, and will 
support him in warm countries much better. When boiled or roasted, 
they are used in the place of bread, and eaten with fish or salt meat. 
When ripe, tarts are made of them, or the fruit is sliced and fried with 
