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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
deserving the name of " speciosa,” and in its genus equally worthy 
to bear the name of the most distinguished chemist of the pre¬ 
sent day. It was discovered in Java by Blume, and by him 
published as a new genus under the name of Tromsdorffia ; but, 
there being already a genus of Martin’s bearing that appellation, 
that given by Endlicher is here adopted. The species was im¬ 
ported from Java through the means of that zealous collector, 
Mr. Thomas Lobb, and it was flowered by Messrs. Yeitch, of 
Exeter, in February, 1847. 
It is an herbaceous plant, with a stem rising a foot and a half 
to two feet high, terete, rough, with harsh down. The leaves 
are large, opposite, petiolate, rough on the upper side, with rigid 
hairs, the form between ovate and elliptical, acuminate, serrated, 
penninerved, and reticulated. Peduncles axillary, aggregated, 
much shorter than the leaves, forked or dichotomous, the upper 
ones almost panicled or corymbose, the pedicles bracteated. 
Flowers drooping, calyx tubular, subcylindrical, tapering at the 
base, the mouth cut into five erect, nearly equal teeth. Corolla 
tubular, limb spreading, oblique, of five nearly equal lobes, pale 
yellow-white, with a purple tinge above, near the base. Fila¬ 
ments four (with an imperfect fifth), of which two are abortive, 
terminated each by a lax tuft of hairs ; the longer ones are fer¬ 
tile, and have also a short tuft of hair beneath the anthers.— 
Bot. Mag. 4315. 
Proteace^e. —Tetandria Monogynia. 
Dryandra carduacea, var. angustifolia (Hooker). A Swan 
River species of Dryandra, discovered by Mr. Drummond, and 
reared in the Royal Gardens of Kew, from seed sent by that in¬ 
defatigable and most successful botanist. Our living plants in 
the proteaceous house only differ from dried ones in having 
narrower leaves. It flowers in the spring months. It is a branch¬ 
ing plant, with rather distant, linear-lanceolate, rigid leaves, 
armed with broad decurrent teeth. The flowers are yellow, and 
here, as in most other parts, the plant bears a thistle-like appear¬ 
ance; and hence its very appropriate name.— Bot. Mag. 4317. 
LabiatvE. —Becandria Monogynia. 
Salvia leucantha (Cavanilles). This rare and remarkable Salvia 
