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abundantly distinct, in the very different bracteas, larger size, in 
the colour of the flowers, which are crimson lilac, and the much 
longer tube. 
It flowers copiously in the stove in April and May. — 
Bot. Mag. 
Polygamia Moncecia. — Leguminosce. 
Acacia dentifera. A new and very graceful species of Acacia, 
from the Swan River, with unusually long racemes of flowers, 
longer than the leaves, of a full yellow, and highly fragrant. 
The seeds were received from Mr. Drummond. The flowering 
season of the plantain an airy greenhouse, is March and April. 
— Bot. Mag. 
Rhododendron fragrans. This plant is probably a hybrid 
between R. catawbiense and some of the hardy fragrant-flowered 
Azaleas. It was raised accidentally in the nursery of Messrs. 
Chandler and Son, at Vauxhall, twenty-five or thirty years ago. 
It forms a very compact dwarf shrub, decidedly evergreen, with 
small and dense foliage, and numerous clusters of pretty pale 
pinkish lilac blossoms, in which there is a variety of delicate 
tints, approaching to white in the centre. It is a free flowerer, 
and possesses an agreeable odour. It has quite the habit of a 
Rhododendron, and looks like a small close-growing pale-flow¬ 
ered variety of R. ponticum, with the leaves a little wrinkled, 
and destitute of much glossiness. — Paxt. Mag. Bot. 
Labicliea bipunctata. A neat and rather showy greenhouse 
shrub, the flowers of which remind us, in their form, size, and 
colour, of Euthales macrophyllus, a handsome Swan River her¬ 
baceous plant of recent introduction. Seeds of it were imported 
by Mr. Low of Clapton, from the Swan River colony, two or 
three years ago, and the plants have flowered repeatedly in the 
Clapton Nursery. The plant possesses much of the upright tall 
habit of Hovea Celsii, when that species is left unpruned. The 
flowers are borne in a kind of short raceme from the axils of the 
leaves, and are not at all inclined to be terminal. — Paxt. Mag. 
Bot. 
CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Stove. Proceed with the repotting, pruning, tying, and 
general arrangement necessary to prepare the plants for the 
winter; and, having properly settled them in their respective 
places, preparation should be made, by admitting the greatest 
amount of light and air compatible with the proper temperature 
