and adds, that it has been successfully propagated and 
established there. 
The plant now drawn was grown from seed received by 
Dowager Lady De Clifford from the Mauritius; and flow- 
ered late this summer in the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in 
the King's Road. 
ARGYREIA is distinguished from ConvoLvuLus and Iro- 
mea principally by an indehiscent seedvessel with one- 
seeded cells (termed by Dr. Roxburgh a berry, either dry 
or succulent). The genus consists of strong extensively 
growing perennial twiners, with simple leaves and an 
axillary inflorescence, abounding with milky juice. It 
was originally detached by Loureiro, whose denomination 
we have adopted; but afterwards more satisfactorily de- 
fined and considerably enlarged in the manuscripts of 
Dr. Roxburgh under the title Lerrsomia, a name preoccu- 
pied by a very distinct group of plants. All the species 
belong to the East Indies ; at least, all yet known. 
We cannot conceive a handsomer ornament for the hot- 
house; where the plant keeps up a long-enduring and 
abundant succession of its richly purple blossom, which 
expands early in the day, and fades before the evening. 
