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very delicate blush tint, with the centre of the lip of a rich 
brownish purple. For cultivating the species, nothing is ne¬ 
cessary but a suitable rough log of wood to support it, and it 
can be kept in a warm moist house during spring and summer, 
but should be taken to a colder one in winter, at no time how¬ 
ever does it require a high temperature.— Pax. Mag. Bat. 
Diadelphia Decandria— -Legumbiosce. 
Hovea Pungens , var. Major. This is a fine greenhouse shrub, 
closely resembling the favorite H. pungens, but of stronger 
habit. It was raised by Mr. Low of Clapton, from seeds col¬ 
lected in the Swan River Colony, and flowered for the first time 
at the Clapton Nursery, in May and June 1841.— Pax. Mag. 
Bot. 
Pentandria Monogynia— Grossulacece. 
Ribes Albidum. This plant is.truly described as a most in¬ 
teresting acquisition to the shrubbery and flower garden. It 
was obtained from seed in the gardens of Admiral Sir David 
Milne, g.c.b., at Inveresknear Musselburgh, but whether it was 
an accidental seedling ora hybrid we are not aware. The flowers 
are of a very delicate French white with a pink eye, while the 
plant has larger racemes of flowers than R. sanguineum, and is 
a more profuse bloomer. It is of the same robust habit of growth, 
and like that species thrives well in almost any sort of soil or 
situation.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Decandria Monogynia — Melastomacece. 
Pleroma Benthamianum. A fine melastomaceous plant, 
bearing numerous deep violet coloured flowers, a native of the 
Organ Mountains. It flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden 
in 1842, and unlike many of its congeners is not of very tardy 
growth, flowering freely at from a foot and a half to two feet 
high. In its native country it grows abundantly in a rather 
boggy soil, at an elevation of upwards of 3000 feet above the 
sea level.— Bot. Mcig. 
Diadelphia Decandria— -Legumbiosce. 
Amicia Zygomeris. Found upon the Cordilleras of Mexico, 
near the Pacific, growing in woods and by river sides, at an ele¬ 
vation of from 5500 to 8000 feet. It was introduced to this 
country from Paris by Messrs. Rollison of the Tooting Nursery. 
A tall free growing shrub, with pleasing light green foliage, and 
showy yellow pea-shaped flowers; it flowers during the early 
winter months.— Bot. Mag. 
Monadelphia Pentandria — Passiflorece. 
Passiflora Actinia. This new passion flower was sent last 
year from the Organ Mountains of Brazil to Mr. Veitch of 
Exeter, by his collector Mr. Lobbs. It produced its handsome 
and highly fragrant blossoms first in November 1842, and again 
in February of the present year. The name is suggested by the 
