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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
column, with yellow filaments, and deep rose-coloured anthers; 
the outer ones gradually diverge and lengthen till they are about 
half as long as the sepals, and then the anthers are deep purple. 
— Bot. Mag., 4398. 
RuBiACEiE .—Tetandria Monogynia. 
Ixorci lanceolaria (De Candolle). A graceful shrub received 
from the Eqst Indies, by favour of the Calcutta Bot. Garden, 
without any name, but which accords so well with the description 
and figure in Roxburgh’s ‘FI. Ind., 5 that I have little hesitation in 
referring it to that species. It requires the heat of a stove for 
its successful cultivation, and then it flowers with us in April. It 
is an inhabitant of Travancore, where it was first found by Mr. 
Colebrooke, and of Courtallam, where Dr. Wright detected it, 
but who speaks of it as a rare plant. In our plant the flowers 
have a greenish tint, which are elsewhere described as white. 
The shrub, according to Roxburgh, attains a height of from five 
to seven feet; it is erect, with dichotomous, scarcely spreading, 
terete, slender branches ; the leaves are about a span long, patent, 
lanceolate, and somewhat coriaceous ; corymb terminal (but often 
with a young branch arising on each side), pedunculate, and 
trichotomously branched. The flowers rather lax, greenish-white; 
the tube of the corolla three quarters of an inch long, slender, 
uniform ; lobes linear-oblong, patent at first, at length reflexed ; 
the sides of the lobes and the filaments of the anthers also re¬ 
flexed.-— Bot Mag., 4399. 
Cr it c 1 fe R.E . —Te tradyn amia Silicu I os a. 
Anastatica hierochuntica (Linn.) Many synonymes might be 
given indicative of the sacredness of this plant, or of the super¬ 
stitious veneration in which it was and still is held by the ignorant 
people inhabiting the country where it still exists; such as 
“ Rosa de Hiericho,” of Dalecliamp, “ Rosa hierochuntica,” of 
Commelin, &c. Respecting this, however, the true “ Rose of 
Jericho ,” much ignorance prevails in our own country, and of 
late years among us the name lias been incorrectly transferred to 
two very different plants (possessing similar hygrometric powers) 
as widely differing from this, as all are different from any real 
rose, and coming, too, from widely different countries;—one, 
