DESCRIPTIVE LIST OP NEW PLANTS. 
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is an annual, or at most a biennial, herbaceous, rising about a 
foot in height; the terminal drooping racemes of pretty campa- 
nulate blue and yellow flowers are very effective.— Bot. Mag. 
4198. 
Sterculiace^e. —Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Reevesia thyrsoidea. This interesting plant is a native of China, 
and was first made known to botanists through John Reeves, 
Esq., a gentleman long resident in Canton, distinguished for the 
many services he rendered to natural history and botany in par¬ 
ticular, and in honour of whom this plant is named by Dr. 
Lindley. It is a shrub rising three or four feet high, with large 
broadly-lanceolate alternate leaves; the branches are terminated 
by dense corymbs of beautiful white or cream-coloured flowers. 
It loves a warm greenhouse, and seems to flower at different 
seasons of the year.— Bot. Mag. 4199. 
ScROPHULARiNEiE. —Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Anthocercis ilicifolia. A perennial species, in colour and gene¬ 
ral habit nearly allied to the showy Anthocercis littorea; but 
very distinct and remarkable for its size, often six feet high, and 
its very long twiggy branches, leafy below, terminating in elongated 
compound spikes of graceful pendent yellow flowers, the inside of 
the widely-companulate tube of which is elegantly marked with 
dark blood-coloured lines. It was first detected at the Swan River 
Settlement by Mr. Fraser, who speaks of it as general on the river 
banks. The plant requires a warm greenhouse in winter, but in 
summer, during the flowering season, a cooler place, with a plen¬ 
tiful admission of air, will be the best suited to it.— Bot. Mag. 
4200. 
SolanEjE. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Habrothamnus corymhosus. A very handsome species, a native 
of Mexico, sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Low of 
Clapton, quite distinct from the H. fascicidatus. It is everywhere 
glabrous, apparently a much taller plant, and with a deep rich 
rose-coloured corolla of a very different shape, widening upwards, 
and then suddenly contracted, so as to have an urceolate tube ; 
and having the segments of the corolla much longer acuminated, 
and at length reflexed. Its growth appears to be much more 
rapid, and it is more easily cultivated, only requiring the pro- 
