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‘., RIVEA tiliefolia. Choisy Convoly. orient. p. 25. 
This large half shrubby climber, from Ceylon, has lately 
flowered in the garden of His Grace the Duke of Northum- 
berland at Syon. It appears to be a native of various parts 
of the world, for M. Choisy names not only the continent 
and islands of India, but also the Isle of France, Cape of 
Good Hope, the West Indies, and Peru, as stations from 
which specimens of it have been brought. It has leaves much 
like those of the Lime Tree in form, but thinner. Its flowers 
are very large, light purple, and single in the axils of the 
leaves. It is perhaps too strong a twiner for trellis cultiva- 
tion, but is an ornamental plant where there is room for it to 
spread. It is the Convolvulus tiliefolius of some botanists, 
the Lpomea tiliefolia of others, and the C. gangeticus of 
Roxburgh, who speaks of it as an inhabitant of the banks 
of the Ganges, where it blossoms in the cool season, when 
its extended branches and numerous very large bright pink- 
coloured flowers are highly ornamental. 
*30. ACACIA biflora. R. Brown hort. Kew. 5.463. DeCand. Prodr. 2. 449. 
A pretty little greenhouse shrub, with small axillary heads 
of yellow flowers smelling like Hawthorn. It was raised by 
Messrs. Lowe and Co. from Swan River seeds. The false- 
leaves have a very unusual form; they may be described as 
wedges, with one of the angles mucronate and more taper- 
pointed than the other, and with the midrib carried into the 
longer angle, the effect of which is to give these parts a 
singularly oblique appearance, and to make them look hunch- 
backed. 
31. STANHOPEA aurea. G. Loddiges. 
Imagine a plant whose flowers have the size of S. insignis, 
the form of S. venusta, the smell of S. oculata, the colour 
of Mazillaria aromatica, and are arranged in a spike two 
feet long, and the reader will have a tolerably distinct con- 
ception of this beautiful thing, which Messrs. Loddiges re- 
ceived from Mr. Bateman, who obtained it from Guatemala. 
It has the two dark spots of Stanhopea oculata, but they are 
in some manner lost in the flood of yellow that surrounds 
them. 
