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38. SPIRANTHES Lindleyana. Link, Klotzsch & Otto, ics t. 11. 
__ This is a variety of S. elata, with the leaves spotted with 
light glaucous green. 
39. MARIANTHUS ceruleo-punctatus; ramis pubescentibus, filiformibus, 
longissimis volubilibus ; foliis brevi-petiolatis evanescente-villosiusculis, 
inferioribus spathulatis, brevissime-acutis grosse serrato-dentatis aut pin+ 
natisectis, superioribus oblongis, utrinque acutis, integerrimis; pedun- 
culis solitariis pubescentibus, in apice ramulorum oppositifoliis, corym- 
bosis, 7-19-floris ; floribus pallide-violaceis ; foliolis calycis pilosis ; co 
rolle petaliseoblongis, acutissimis, 3 superioribus medio expallentibus, 
cceruleo-punctatis ; antheris ceeruleis. Link, Klotzsch & Otto, ic. t. 12. 
The seed of this plant was received from Van Diemen’s 
Land in 1839, with the name of Beautiful sweet-scented 
creeper. It has pale violet flowers, with deep blue dots and 
blue anthers, arranged in corymbs. It requires in the winter 
a temperature of from 45° to 5U° but in summer may be 
treated as most New Holland plants. It blossoms in May and 
June, and may be increased by cuttings placed under a bell- 
glass. 
40. SALVIA tubifera. Cavanilles Ic. 1. 23. t. 25. Bentham Labiat. 298. 
(S. longifiora. Willd. Sp. pl. 1. 141.) 
This charming plant has been lately flowered in the, 
garden of the Horticultural Society, who received it from 
Mexico, where it was met with by Mr. Hartweg. It hasa 
stem about 3 feet high, ovate, thin, long-stalked leaves, and 
long racemes of slender purple flowers, drooping gracefully 
from the ends of the branches. ‘The flowers are much the 
colour of some purple Acanthaceous plants, such as Justicia 
elegans, but they are perhaps more vivid. It is one of the 
best Salvias we yet have. It has flowered in a warm green- 
house, but is probably as hardy as others. 
41. BURLINGTONIA rigida. Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 34. 
One of the many fine plants inhabiting the woods of Bra- 
zil, our knowledge of which was confined to dried specimens: 
until the enterprise of British cultivators succeeded in trans- 
ferring it to our gardens. It has been at length procured 
in a living state by the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose stove it 
