LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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hardy dwarf shrub attaining the height of from 3 to 5 feet, and growing 
freely in any good garden soil. Its flowers have much the look of Privet, 
and are wholly destitute of the sweet perfume of other lilacs; instead of 
which they have a heavy unpleasant smell: they are produced in the month 
of April in the open ground. One thing peculiar to this plant is the pro¬ 
perty of producing pale pustule-like callosities on the branches, which gives 
them a singular appearance, and the segments of the corolla have an abruptly 
indexed point. — Bot. Beg. 
NymphjEACE^j. — Polyandria Monogynia. 
Nymphcea rubra. Few, if any of the tropical kinds of the fine family of 
water lilies, are more specious, or admit of culture more conveniently, than 
N. rubra. The flowers certainly are a little inferior in dimensions to those 
of some of its congeners; but the intensity of their rich crimson-purple 
petals, and the smaller and less exuberant character of other parts, is more 
than a sufficient compensation. It is an Oriental species, existing plentifully 
in Hindostan, where it is found growing in pools of fresh water, and not un- 
frequently in gently flowing rivers. 
The stem grows horizontally amongst the mud, and the leaves are elevated 
on long stalks so as to float on the surface of the water. The plant was 
introduced by Sir Joseph Banks, about the beginning of the present century, 
— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Melastomace^e. — Decandria Monogynia. 
Pleroma petiolata. This plant is a strong-growing stove shrub, generally 
rising three or four feet high; the branches are well furnished with handsome 
foliage, of the same soft velvety character, so frequent amongst Melastoma- 
ceous plants ; the flowers are large and showy, of a bright purple colour, 
arranged in large terminal panicles: they continue to be developed in suc¬ 
cession for a considerable period. It was first known in Britain through 
plants in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, which were procured in 1836 
from the Botanic Garden of Berlin. Sir W. J. Hooker suspects it to be sy¬ 
nonymous with L. Maximiliana, a native of the provinces of Saint Paulo and 
Saint Sebastiano, in Brazil. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Orchxdace^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Eria vestita. A species with the habit of a Dendrobium, sprinkled over 
with reddish-brown hairs ; both in the stems and the thick coriaceous leaves 
the flowers are produced on a loose raceme; the outer side of the sepals is 
ferruginous, and the inside and petals white : it is remarkable, but not hand¬ 
some.— Bot Reg. 2—45. 
Epidendrum dipus. One of those innumerable species inhabiting South 
American forests, to the enumeration of which there seems no end. It was 
imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Brazil, and produced its densely clus¬ 
tered panicles of sweet-scented green, brown and white flowers in January. 
In many respects it approaches E. nutans, but its panicle is very much more 
compact; its colour is more like that of E. paniculatum, and the form of its 
lip is different, the two terminal lobes being very narrow, and bowed back, 
like the fore-legs of the splay-footed truffle dogs. — 'Bot. Reg. 4—45. 
Rubiaceae. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Luculia Pinciana. A new and extremely beautiful species, excelling even 
the much-admired L. gratissima, both in the size and delicacy of its flowers 
and in their powerful, yet agreeable, fragrance. In stature and general as¬ 
pect the two appear to accord, but the present has broader and shorter leaves, 
with much more compact (closely-placed) nerves, and the limb of the corolla 
has five pairs of prominent tubercles, one pair at the sinus of each lobe. The 
flowers are arranged in large cymes, at the ends of rather small leafy branches, 
which spreading, and, as it were, uniting, form one compound cyme, a foot or 
more in diameter, composed of large (and on the upper side) pure white 
