figure exhibits, besides the diminutive cloven standard (vex- 
illum), a pair of equally diminutive lanceolate wings (ale) 
to the corolla. Possibly such may be found in other spe- 
cies." Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. 
Cultivated with us in 1707 by the Duchess of Beaufort. 
Drawn in the greenhouse of the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill 
in the King's Road. 
In a former article of this Register, in speaking of 
what we termed the latent ale (wings) observed in certain 
species of this genus, they are spoken of as of parts that 
had not been before noticed in PorveaLA by any other 
than ourselves, We were not then aware of the elabo- 
rate illustration of the species before us in the splendid 
folio of J. Miller, to which our attention has been since 
drawn by the passage we have quoted from Sir James 
Smith. On referring to this figure of J. Miller's, we find 
these latent wings (ale) distinctly and faithfully repre- 
sented, and believe that that artist is probably the first per- 
son who observed them. By every subsequent botanist we 
are acquainted with, they have been overlooked. The corolla 
is universally spoken of as tripetalous, except by Sir James 
Smith in the passage we have quoted in reference to Miller's 
figure and dissections. 
For the distinctions that separate myrtifolia from ligu- 
laris, its nearest relative, we shall refer to the article which 
treats of the latter species (fol. 637, in the present vo- 
lume). 
Myrtifolia forms a slender straggling-branched shrub of 
three or four feet in height, and is found very generally in 
our greenhouses, where it flowers for a great part of the 
summer, and is of easy cultivation. 
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