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mear indeed that Redouté has published it under the latter name, misled probably by the 
appellation received with it from this country. 5. Dracocephalum peregrinum, a near relative 
of D. Ruyschiana & canescens... Miller was probably right-in raising these plants into a distinct 
genus, though Linnzus thought proper to unite them with Dracocephalum. But it is far 
better to have the names as they are, tili some botanist of sufficient abilities and leisure shall 
undertake the revisal of the whole natural order, than to make any partial alterations. 
6. Aralia bispida; a plant of which the only notice we have before had is,in the North- 
American Flora of Michauz. 7. Linum austriacum, a near relative of L. usitatissimum & 
perenne 3 as the next, 8. Linum ascyrifolium is of hirsutum & bypericifolium: indeed Dr. Sims 
seems to suspect the three last to be varieties of the same species. Of the one here figured, 
whether a species or variety, nothing seems to be known, but what we have from Clusius, 
who found it in Portugal, where no botanist has since been able to meet withit. It is a 
pity that Dr. Sims has not traced from whence it was introdeced into the Botanic Garden at 
Brompton, which might probably have thrown some light upon the subject. 
The proprietors of the Botanical Magazine have found it necessary toraise the price of the 
number from three shillings to three shillings and sixpence. For our parts we think the 
public must be sensible of the moderation of the present managers of the work, who, not- 
withstanding the great addition to the expences of the publication, have still kept the price 
lower in piopenige to its bulk than we kaow it was Mr. Curtis’s determination to have raised 
it to, had he not been prevented by the fatal disease which soon after deprived the world of 
his useful life. 
The Botanist’s Repository for December, omitted in our last Report, contains, 1. Hibiscus 
pruriens, a supposed ‘non-descript species. Itis here said to come nearest to H. can: sabinus, 
but as far as we can judge, it has much nearer athnity with H. autifoliuvs. We are not in- 
formed here of the form of the external calyx, neither is the figure explicit; by the number 
of stigmas we guess that it has fivecapsules, 2. Ipomea coccinea, which is here supposed to 
be distinct on the one figured in the Botanical Magazine, said to be the I. duteo/a of Jacquin. 
Both are considered by Willdenow to be mere varieties ; if they are not so, we do not hesi. 
tate in believing the one here figured not to be the coccinea of Linnzeus, as in the two charac- 
ters given by himself in Hort. Upsal. and Hort. Cliff, he says in the one work, ‘* with leaves 
angulated at the base,” and in the other, ‘‘leaves entire, scarcely toothed’”’,which corresponds 
with the appearance usually observed ia the species that passes for coccinea in our gardens, 
and figured.as such in the Botanical Magazine, but not at all with the form of the leaves as 
here drawn. 3. Protea mucronata, figured before in Paradisus Londinensis and in the Bota- 
nical Magazine. 5. Hellenia Al/ughas of Willdenow, a genus first established by Retzius, 
who called it Heritiera, but that name having been applied to another genus, Willdenow 
named it in honour of his friend Prof. Hellenius. Mr. Roscoe has united it with Aipinia, 
but the form of the fruit will most probably determine the genus, when these plants come to 
be better understood. ‘The description given vy Mr. Andrews of this part is perfectly unin- 
telligible. He describes it as foliows: §* Sceed-wesse/ round, and three-valved, enclosed in a 
double corulament, many-seeded.” This very rare plant was communicated to Mr. Andrews 
by A. B. Lambert, Esq. in whose stove it flowered probably for the first time in England. 
5. Lobelia surinamensis, a handsome variety of the one long ago figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, differing in nothing but in having bright red, instead of pale red, flowers. Inthe 
last-mentioned work it is erroneously stated that a new specific character and name is given 
to this plant in the Hortus Kewensis, which had been previously described under the name 
of levigata in the Supplementum Plantarum. The fact is, that the specific character and 
name, given in the Hortus Kewensis, is taken from the species plantarum, and that the 
younger Linnzus mistakenly supposed it to be au undescribed species, 
> The Paradisus Londinensis contains three very interesting plants: 1. Byblis /izifora, a 
non-descript New Holland genus, nearly related to Drosera. The learned and intelligent 
author has, with the hand of a master, created a new natural order, which he calls DRoSERE Ay 
consisting of Drosera, Ladrosia (Drosera Jusitaxica L.) Ireon (Rotidula L.) Byblis and Dionewa. 
The plant here figured is probably annual, was communicated from the collection of the 
Countess of Essex at Cashiobury Park. 2. Curcuma aromatica, from the coliecticn of the 
Right Honourable Charles Greville, the Guidoar, sive Zedoarium allesum of Father. Hamel, 
who found it in the island of Luzon. Mr. Sal isbury remarks that the figure of the lament 
of Gurcama given by Roscoe, in the &th vol. of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, is, 
by some unaccountable error, totally wrong. The essential character of the genus censists’ 
in the two-spurred anther. 3. Anigozanthus. grandiflora, the Temes of Redouté's PIs 
iliacées. A New Holland plant, from the collection of the Marquis of Bland: ford, The 
genus was first named by Labillardiere from another species. 
The twenty-fourth number of Exctic Botany has at length appeared, which sinless the 
second volume of this scientific work. From the.slow manner in which the latter numbers 
have been published, we very much fear that an adequate encouragement is not given by the 
public to insure their uninterrupted continuance. We trust however that, in this case, Dr. 
Smith will find some other channel to communicate the discoveries of Dr. Buchanan to the 
anical world, The present number contains, 1. Leucosceptrum canum, a new genus of the 
an fous class, gathered by Dy. Buchanan in Upper Nepal, 2, Globba racemosa, a new, 
. apecica 
