DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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CiNCHONACEiE .—Pentandria Monogynia. 
Gardenia Devoniana . This glorious plant is a native of Sierra 
Leone, whence living specimens were imported by Mr. Whitfield. 
It is, perhaps, the finest of its noble race. The flowers are nearly 
eleven inches long, pure white at first, but after a time changing 
to a light straw colour, and look much like those of a large white 
lily. Mr. Glendinning, of Turnham Green, who flowered the 
plant in September last, says : The varieties of these plants by no 
means decrease their value or the interest they possess; on the 
contrary, no collection of the least pretensions can be without 
them: their extraordinary conspicuous flowers, together with 
their perfume, will give them a very high claim. The Cape 
Jasmine, it is well known, can be had to bloom at a variety of 
seasons; so can these more gorgeous species, with quite as little 
trouble. To accomplish this, let them be placed, after flowering, 
in a high temperature of at least 80°, and charged with moisture. 
Plunge them in bottom heat, and keep the syringe upon them two 
or three times a day; by this means rapid growth is obtained. 
When this is accomplished, gradually expose them to a lower tem¬ 
perature and plenty of light, when their blossom buds will be set. 
A cool pit or greenhouse may then receive them; and shortly 
before their flowers are required, they may successively be re¬ 
moved to a house of medium temperature, when their blossoms 
will freely expand.— Bot. Beg. 63-47. 
Rosacea. — Icos'andria Polyandria. 
Potent ilia M‘Nabiana. A very beautiful variety raised by Mr. 
Menzies, gardener to II. Edwards, Esq., Hope House, Halifax, 
two years ago; it is a hybrid, between P. atrosanguinea and 
P. leucochroa ; the flowers are large, and extremely brilliant in 
colour, vivid carmine, and buff, and are borne in great numbers 
by well-established plants on numerous strong stems, which do 
not attain, at the outside, a greater height than about two feet 
six inches; younger plants send up stems that bear blossoms 
when not more than a foot high. The foliage, in the cases of 
both radical and caulescent leaves, is ample and profuse.— Pax. 
Mag . Bot. 
Orchidace.e —Gynandria Monandria. 
Vanda Batemanni. The honour of discovering this splendid 
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