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Ater. Black (in composition Atro). 
Attenuated. Becoming gradually slender at either end. 
Auctus. An extra or superadded part, usually evinced in the 
form of bracteal scales. 
Aurantia, aurantiacus. Of the colour of an orange. 
Auratus, aurens. Of a bright golden colour. 
Auriculate. Having a rounded or ear-like base. 
Australis. Applied to plants which are natives of warm 
climates in the southern hemisphere. 
Avenaceous. Resembling oats. 
Avenius. Without veins. 
Aversus. Turned or rolled back. 
Awn. The stiff bristly appendage or beard of corn, and other 
graminse. 
Axil, axilla. The upper angle formed by the union of the 
leaf or branch and the stem. 
Axillary. Proceeding from the axil. 
Azure, azureus. A lively sky blue. 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
PiTTOsroRACEiE. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Pronaya elegans. This elegant little greenhouse plant bears some resem¬ 
blance, in its general aspect, to the Marianthus ccerideo-punctatus. It is a 
smooth twining plant, but of a less tenuous or rambling growth, producing 
its leaves at shorter intervals, and having the flowers more compactly 
aggregated. In healthy plants the latter are plenteously developed, and 
have a peculiarly neat and attractive mien: from this dwarfness of habit, and 
the pleasing and long lasting inflorescence, it makes one of the most desirable 
of plants for a small greenhouse. It is mentioned under the name of Cam - 
pylanthera Fraseri in the “leones Plantarum of Sir W. J. Hooker; but the 
name we have adopted is that bestowed by Hugel, and under which alone 
we believe it is known in the gardens of this country. It is a product of 
the western coast of New Plolland, and was first discovered by Mr. Fraser 
growing plentifully about the Swan River settlement, whence it was tor- 
warded to England in 1837. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Combretaceje. — Octo-Decandria Monogynia. 
Combretum latifolium. An East Indian species, but at what precise period 
it was introduced to England we are not informed. It is evidently identical 
with the C. latifolium of Don in the “ Linnean 
C. macrophyllum of Roxburgh in the “ Hortus 
general appearance of the inflorescence there is 
between this species and * C . grandiforum, but a 
reveals several essential distinctions ; the flower spikes of the present kind 
are shorter and broader in proportion to their length, the stamens moreover 
Transactions ” and the 
Bengalensis.” In the 
a striking resemblance 
comparison of the two 
