This little Xeranthemum is a native of the Cape, perfectly new, and very sweet-scented. As fragrance is very unusual in this fine tribe of plants, we have on that account considered it as a good specific title. It was introduced to the Clapham gardens about the year 1803; and as we have not seen it since that period, we are inclined to think it is not at present in this country. In the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, esq. we found a fine native specimen of an unnamed species very much resembling our plant, but with a profusion of flowers--a habit which ours would in all probability have assumed as soon as it had been familiarized to the change of climate. [Illustration] PLATE DLXII. CYNANCHUM BICOLOR. _Two-coloured Cynanchum._ CLASS V. ORDER II. _PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA._ Five Chives. Two Pointals. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CONTORTA. Nectarium cylindricum, quinque-dentatum. CONTORTED. Honey-cup cylindrical, five-toothed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. CYNANCHUM foliis cordatis, acutis, pilosis: floribus in umbellis proliferis: corollis bicoloribus: petalis ad basin hirsutis: caule volubili. CYNANCHUM with heart-shaped, pointed, hairy leaves: flowers grow in proliferous umbels: blossoms two-coloured: petals hirsute at the base: stem twining. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. The parts of fructification magnified. 4. The seed-bud, shaft, summit, and chives. 5. The same magnified. * * * * * This Cynanchum is, we believe, a perfectly new species, and continues to flower during the summer and autumnal months, running to a great length. In that, as well as in other particulars, it bears a considerable resemblance to the Cynanchum extensum of Jacquin’s Icones, but is far superior to that species from its petals being enlivened with a rich purple spot, a slight tinge of which is even visible on the smallest buds. There is an abundant succession of bloom, and the flowers appear to expand with freedom. Our drawing was made last August from a fine plant in the hot-stove of the Countess de Vandes. [Illustration] PLATE DLXIII. MIMOSA ELEGANS. _Elegant Mimosa._ CLASS XXIII. ORDER I. _POLYGAMIA MONŒCIA._ Various Dispositions upon one Plant. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. HERMAPH. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida. Stamina 5, sive plura. Pistillum 1, legumen. MASCUL. Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla 5-fida. Stamina 5-10, sive plura. HERMAPH. Empalement 5-toothed. Blossom 5-cleft. Chives 5 or more. Pointal 1, a pod. MALE. Empalement 5-toothed. Blossom 5-cleft. Chives 5-10, or more. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. MIMOSA frutescens, inermis: ramis verrucosis foliis bipinnatis, pennis propriis 8-ad 9-jugis, partialibus 20-ad 24-jugis, cum impari ad imum minore; spicis axillaribus oblongis divaricatis.