DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW'PLANTS. 
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striped with green and white, which changes to brilliant orange. 
— Bot. Reg. 18-46. 
CaryophyleACE iE . —Becandria Trigynia. 
Silene Schafta. This is one of the prettiest of all hardy herba¬ 
ceous plants. It is of dwarf habit, producing a great number of 
spreading, slender, downy stems, which form compact tufts, and 
are terminated near the extremity by four or five bright purple 
flowers, more than an inch long. Of these flowers that at the ex¬ 
tremity of the shoot opens first, and those below it one after an¬ 
other in succession, so that the branches are by degrees covered 
all over with blossoms. It is a hardy perennial, which grows 
freely in any light rich soil, and is increased by seeds, which are 
produced freely, and it flowers from the end of June to October. 
It appears to be a native of rocky places, on a mountain called 
Keridach, in the district of Sawant, in the Russian province of 
Talysch, at the height of from 2,500 to 4,000 feet.— Bot. Reg. 
20-46. 
Fabace^e. —Biadelphia Becandria. 
Indig of era decora. A very pretty bush, with dark green pin¬ 
nate leaves, from the axils of which the flowers are produced in 
horizontal racemes ; they are of a light rose colour, and are 
very handsome. The standard of the corolla is oblong, nearly 
flat, very slightly keeled behind, nearly white, but pencilled with 
delicate crimson lines near the base. The wings are narrowly 
lanceolate and ciliated, of a pale bright rose colour. The keel is 
rather paler, and bordered with a woolly or very downy upper edge. 
It was received by the Horticultural Society from Mr. Fortune, 
who found it cultivated in the nursery gardens at Shanghai. 
The climate of Shanghai is so cold in winter, that it may be a 
question whether this species may not prove hardy. At present 
it is treated as an ordinary greenhouse plant.— Bot. Reg. 22-46. 
Gesneiiace.e. — Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Gesneria Gerardiana. This remarkably fine Gesneria is a 
native of South America, from whence tubers of it were imported 
by the Very Rev. the Dean of Manchester, and forwarded more 
than two years ago to the Messrs. Rollison of Tooting, by whom 
it has been sent out as G. Herbertii. 
As combining all the features of excellence that distinguish the 
