LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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AcANTHACE^e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Whitfieldia lateritia. This plant is a very desirable inmate of the stove, 
forming a small bushy shrub, with spreading branches and copious ever¬ 
green foliage; the branches terminated by racemes of flowers of a rather 
large size, of which the calyx and corolla, and often large bracteas, are of 
one uniform brick-red colour. It is one of the many novelties brought 
home to Lord Derby from the interior of Sierra Leone. — Bot. Mag. 4155. 
Liliace^e. — Hexcindria Monogynia. 
Blandfordia marginata. A native of Van Diemen’s Land, where it is 
abundant, and is, we presume, the real Atleris punicea of Labillardiere. 
It produced flowers two or three years since in the Nursery of Messrs. 
Osborn & Co., of Fulham, and was then named B. marginata by the Dean 
of Manchester, in consequence of the roughness of the edges of its leaves. 
It is far handsomer than B. grandiflora. , from which it differs in its flowers 
being deep copper colour instead of half red and half yellow, in its long 
leafy bracts, and in the shape of its blossoms, which form a nearly regular 
cone, instead of being contracted above the base, and then inflated in the 
upper division. — Bot. Reg. 18—45. 
Solanaceas. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Iochroma tubulosa. In the opinion of Mr. Bentliam this plant, which was 
mentioned in the last volume of the Botanical Register under the name of 
Mabrothamnus cyaneus, is better separated as a peculiar genus, to which 
two other species, also found by Mr. Hartweg in Equatorial America, must 
be added. “ This new genus,” writes Mr. Bentham, “ differs from Habro¬ 
thamnus in the aestivation of the corolla; and, as far as I can judge from a 
not quite ripe fruit, in the fruit and seed belonging to the tribe of true 
Solaneae, not to the Cestrineae. Mr. Llartweg found this plant in the form 
of a shrub from four to six feet high, growing on the mountains of Zangana 
near Loxa. It flowered in the Garden of the Horticultural Society in 
August, 1844. The flowers are handsome, of a bluish purple tint, and 
are produced freely from July to October. — Bot. Reg. 20—45. 
Cestrum aurantiacum. In general the species of this genus have small 
claim to beauty; their flowers being for the most part green or greenish, or 
at least of some dingy colour; their only recommendation has been their 
occasional sweetness. This plant is one with a strikingly gay aspect; its 
apricot or orange-coloured blossoms being quite clear, and of considerable 
size for a Cestrum. It is, in fact, a very beautiful greenhouse shrub, and 
perhaps not unsuited for turning into the open border during summer : its 
foliage, too, is dark green, shining, and abundant; and in winter it is rendered 
gay by an abundance of snow-white pear-shaped berries. Mr. Skinner pre¬ 
sented the Horticultural Society with the seeds, which he had obtained from 
Chimalapa in Guatemala. It flowered in the Chiswick Garden in August, 
1844. — Bot. Reg. 22—45. 
Lamiacee. -— Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
Dysophylla stellata. The starry Dysophyll is mentioned by botanists as 
inhabiting Malabar and Mysore. The specimen from which the figure was 
made flowered in the garden of the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland in 
October last. It is a delicate little light green plant, looking something 
like a Bedstraw, but more erect, and bearing spikes of the prettiest little 
purple blossoms, which remind the observer of the spikes of a Mimosa, or 
some such plant. The long slender filaments are directed downwards, and 
