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their native plants. In this respect no country is so much 
honoured as our own ; the labours of two departed worthies have 
raised to their memories a lasting monument of fame, for the 
names of Sir J. C. Smith and of Sowerby, as associated in the 
production of ‘ English Botany/ are honorably inscribed on the 
roll of botanic history. The ‘ English Botany’ of these authors 
is a most admirable publication of plates of our indigenous flora, 
engraved by Sowerby, and described by Smith. The original 
edition was published in thirty-six octavo volumes, the picsent, 
or second, or, as it is also called, the small edition, is a leissue of 
the original plates, with the descriptions much condensed. This 
small edition has passed through one issue, commencing in 1832 
and ending in 1845. Its reissue has again commenced, and its 
completion is to occupy about seven years. 
The plates themselves may be described as admirable delinea¬ 
tions of the plants they are intended to represent, characterized 
by a degree of boldness and honesty in their execution, which 
has secured them a long course of approbation. The work is 
essentially from its nature a costly one, as all books consisting 
chiefly of plates must necessarily be; but in its present form it 
is brought within the reach of persons of moderate means—now 
therefore is their opportunity. • M. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Asclepiadace^. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Hoy a campanulata (Blume). This very curious plant is a 
native of Java, where it w r as found by Dr. Blume, who describes 
it as an inhabitant of mountain thickets in the west of the island; 
it is called by the natives Tjunkankan , and flowers all the year 
round. Its introduction is due to Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, to 
whom it was sent by Mr. Thomas Lobb, and with whom it 
flowered in April, 1846. Its habit is altogether that of a thin¬ 
leaved Hoya, but its peculiarly-formed corolla gives it a different 
appearance; on this account M. Decaisne removes it to the 
genus Physostelma , but as he does so doubtfully, and as it wants 
the bladdery coronet which is proper to that genus, giving it its 
name, it does not seem desirable that the current nomenclature 
