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and rivals that of the Caucasus in its rich scarlet haws, which are, however, 
of a peculiar vermilion tint, and of a very depressed figure. Their flavour, 
too, is by no means ungrateful. The shrub is a native of Nepaul, whence it 
was received by Dr. Roxburgh, of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, where he 
says it has grown to the height of from six to eight feet in eight years: it 
would have been better for us had he found it unkeepable. In the garden 
of the Horticultural Society it has survived several winters, trained against a 
south wall. It is a fine hardy evergreen shrub, attaining about the same 
size as the common Pyracantha, and requiring the same kind of treatment. 
It grows freely in any good loamy soil, and rather dry situation, flowering 
abundantly in June, and producing its fine clusters of bright red berries in 
September. — Bot. Reg. 
Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Dendrobium compressum. This singular species was discovered in the 
island of Ceylon by Mr. Nightingale, and by that gentleman sent to his 
Grace the Duke of Northumberland in 1840, in whose collection at Syon it 
flowered in 1842. The curious flattened stems are not more than three or 
four inches long, and resemble those of no species hitherto discovered The 
singular form of the labellum, which is that of a wedge drawn out at the 
point, and furrowed along the middle, distinguishes this plant independently 
of its habit. The flowers are small and yellow not at all handsome. 
But. Reg. 
Bignoniace^e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Bignonia Carolina. All that we know of this charming plant is that it 
flowered with the Earl of Ilchester, at Melbury, in 1842, and again in May, 
1844. It is a most desirable plant for conservatories; because, in addition to 
the beauty of its snow-white flowers, which the plant pours forth with ex¬ 
uberant luxuriance, they are sweet-scented, an unusual circumstance with 
Bignonias. We presume it to be a Buenos Ayres species.— Bot. Reg. 
Melastomace^e. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Osbecftia stellata var. A green-house plant of strong habit, producing large 
flowers of a crimson lilac hue. The species is found in Nepaul. Dr. Royle 
mentions it as one of those Mielastomaceous plants which advance farthest to 
the north, in the valleys near Massooree, and on the banks of the Ghiree 
River. This variety was flowered in the garden of H. T. Hope, Esq., of 
the Deep Dene, near Dorking, in September last. — Bot. Reg. 
Rhamnace^:. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Cryptandra suavis. The Cryptandras are little New Holland shrubs, with 
the aspect of heaths found on barren hills and rocky places, or in light sandy 
land. In a wild state they often become spiny, but in cultivation, when they 
are kept in a moist atmosphere, they much lose this tendency. The present 
species is a native of the Swan River; its flowers are very sweet smelling, 
like hawthorn; and though small, they render the plant attractive from the 
profusion in which they are produced all over the branches. Mrs. Wray, of 
Oakfield, has had the good fortune to raise it from seed. It requires about 
the same treatment as Cape heaths. — Bot. Reg. 
CACTEiE. — Icosandria Monogynia. 
Echinocactus concinnus. A very neat little plant, about two inches high 
and three or three and a half inches in diameter, globose, but remarkably 
depressed at the top, and even convex there, and crowded with mainmillfe, 
with their woolly and spinous areolas, sending out in a stellated dneotion 
eight or ten slender spines, with one longer and stronger, but still slender, 
