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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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Nympheacee. —Polyandria Monogynia. 
NympJicea dentata. From tlie rich collection of Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, & Co., Exeter. The roots were brought from 
Sierra Leone, by Mr. Whitfield, and produced their handsome 
flowers in the aquarium of the stove, in August, 1846. Aquatic 
plants are, generally speaking, widely dispersed, and not a little 
variable, so that it behoves us to adopt new species among them 
with great caution. There can be no doubt that the plant here 
figured is nearly allied to the celebrated Nijmphcea lotus , an in¬ 
habitant of the Nile, and to N. thermalis, a native of Hungary. 
It seems to be unquestionably the N. dentata of Schumacher and 
Thonning, which is a native of still waters on the coast of Guinea; 
and we have therefore so called it. The singularly prominent 
and glabrous venation on the under side of the leaf (similar to 
that of Bury ale ferox and of the Victoria regia), the large white 
flowers, and the calyx striped green and white, together with the 
white base of the calyx, and the peculiar contraction there, are 
characteristic of the present species.— Bot. Mag. 4257. 
Le gumino se . —Becandria Monogynia . 
Gompholobium venustum. A lovely greenhouse plant, from 
South-west Australia, first detected by Mr. Brown ; Mr. Fraser 
gathered it in King George’s Sound, and Mr. Drummond sends 
specimens and seeds from the Swan River settlement. From the 
latter Messrs. Lucombe and Pince have raised plants which pro¬ 
duced their copious corymbs of rich purple flowers in July, 1845. 
The plant attains a height of a foot or more, its branches are 
terete, long, andflexuous, thinly clad with glabrous pinnate leaves, 
which are very narrow, almost filiform. Its flowers are produced 
in terminal pedunculated corymbs, of a rich rose purple colour. 
— Bot. Mag. 4258. 
Ranunculacee. —Polyandria Polygynia. 
Clematis smilacifolia. A fine but very little known species of 
“Traveller’s Joy,” with large scandent stems, handsome undi¬ 
vided leaves, marked with from five to seven nerves, much re¬ 
sembling those of some Smilax , large paniculated racemes of 
