* [t is a climber, and may be applied to cover the walls in conser- 
vatories, as well as in the open ground during summer. It presents 
a really surprising aspect, when the outer walls of a greenhouse are 
covered with a screen formed by its numerous branches, tinged with 
red, and loaded with the most beautiful purplish-black flowers hang- 
ing down from thered calyxes. Out of every axil, to the most remote 
part of the twigs, a flower takes its origin, hanging down from a long 
stalk, which like the underside of the leaves and branches is coloured 
red. There can be no doubt, that it is, of all the known climbing 
plants with which we cover walls during summer, the most remark- 
able and beautiful, and ought to be particularly recommended, as 
it is easily cultivated, and flowers so very freely. Its propagation is 
by seeds and cuttings. Theseeds are sown in March and April, that 
the young plants may become strong enough in time for planting 
in the open ground, where they remain during the whole summer, 
until frost sets in; if these plants are to be preserved, they should be 
potted off and put in a conservatory, where they prosper in a tempe- 
rature, from 43° to 48° Fahr. They are also easily propagated by 
cuttings." 
This mode of management appears to have been attended with 
great success; for when the plant was observed in the Berlin Garden 
in the autumn of 1833 by Dr. Henderson, it was in a much more 
thriving state than we have seen it in England. 
Its next appearance in print was in the Transactions of the Ma- 
thematical and Physical Class (we believe) of the Munich Academy 
of Sciences, where 1t was published with an admirable description and 
figure by Professor Zuccarini ; who, however, had altered his opinion 
of its belonging to a distinet genus, and called it Lophospermum atro- 
sanguineum ; this must have been in 1833, but our copy of the memoir 
to which we refer; bears no date. : 
Then Mr. Don, in August 1834, published it under the name of 
Lophospermum Rhodochiton, and he was followed in the succeeding 
December by Professor Graham, who adhered to Professor Zucca- 
rini's first opinion, that the plant is distinct from Lophospermum, in 
which we entirely agree. In such groups as the Antirrhineous 
section of Scrophularinee, less weighty reasons than the great co- 
loured campanulate calyx, and salver-shaped corolla of Rhodochiton, 
as compared with the five-parted herbaceous calyx, and funnel- 
shaped corolla of Lophospermum are universally admitted as sufficient 
to justify the separation of such genera as Antirrhinum, Linaria and 
Anarrhinum, and we cannot conceive upon what principle the former 
, are to be combined while the latter remain disunited. 
In this country the Rhodochiton appears to require exactly the 
same treatment as Lophospermum ; we saw it in great beauty at Mrs. 
Marryat's in a potin the greenhouse last September, and it grew very 
well in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, trained to a pole in 
the open ground. Its greatest enemy seems to be bright sunlight. 
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