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NOTICES OF BOTANICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
Edwards’s Botanical Register, continued by Professor Lindley. 
The November number contains:— 
1. Ionopsis tenera. A very delicate and pretty flowering genus, 
belonging to Orchidacece . Its different species are but little known 
in consequence of the difficulty of bringing them from their native 
country, and of growing them well when brought. In their native 
woods they grow upon the smaller branches of trees, or upon dead 
sticks, which their white slender roots quickly overspread. Dr. L. 
enumerates four species which have been pretty clearly described, viz. 
I. pulchella and testiculata , Sir William Hooker’s lantha pallidljlora ; 
the third is the one represented, and the fourth is a very remarkable 
species, having purple-pannicled scapes, a foot and a half long, bending 
gracefully beneath the weight of the delicate snow-white flowers. A 
French author mentions a variety of it with flowers of a delicate rose- 
colour, vdiich flowers from September to March, continuing all the 
intervening period without fading. 
The present plant flowered in the collection of Sir Charles Lemon, 
at Garclew, in May last, and is described by Mr. Booth. 
2. Rondeletia odorata. An hexandrious plant, belonging to the 
natural order Ctnckonacece. It is a handsome-flowering stove exotic, 
found by Jacquin on bush-covered rocks near the sea in the Havannah. 
He says the bright vermilion-coloured flowers are as sweet-scented as 
violets; hence the specific name. This fine scent, however, is not 
evolved by cultivated plants. It thrives in a mixture of loam and 
moor-earth, and cuttings root in sand under glass. In collections it is 
usually known as the R. speciosa. 
3. Epimedium macranthum , Large-flowered Epimedium. A very 
pretty sweet-scented species, remarkable for the large size of its pale 
violet flowers. “ It has been amply described by Messrs. Morren and 
Decaisne from plants that flowered in the garden of the University of 
Ghent, where it forms one out of a hundred and sixty species of 
Japanese plants brought to Europe alive by Dr. Von Siebolt. This is 
by far the most considerable importation from Japan that has yet been 
made, and its results have been so satisfactory as to lead us to hope 
that the Dutch botanists may be the means of bringing us acquainted 
•with a larger portion of the beautiful plants which adorn that most 
singular country.” 
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The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered in the nursery 
of the Messrs. Osborne, at Fulham, in April last, and is well worth the 
