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with Rumphius's figure; but it comes from China, and not 
from Amboyna. It has the habit of V. Roxburghii, to which 
Sir W. Hooker has referred it; but it differs not only in the 
whole colour of its sepals and petals, and the other characters 
above indicated, but also in being a large lax growing plant, 
five or six feet high, with much thinner and longer leaves. 
The former is a short growing plant, with the leaves very 
closely set together. The middle lobe of the lip of V. Rox- 
burghii is oblong and contracted at the point; here it is 
wedge-shaped and two-lobed. 
49. HINDSIA violacea. 
Bentham MSS. 
H. violacea ; incano-tomentosa, foliis ovalibus acutis suleatis subtüs rugosis 
longé petiolatis, pedunculis brevibus 2-floris, bracteis calycisque laciniis 
exterioribus hirsutis spathulatis acutis, corollz 4-5-lobz tubo longissimo 
laciniis ovalibus acutis carnosis fauce nudà, stigmatibus filiformibus 
exsertis. 
A most beautiful plant imported by Messrs. Veiteh and 
Sons from South Brazil, and exhibited by them at the late 
meeting in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, on which 
occasion it received the large silver medal. We presume it 
to be a hardy stove or tender greenhouse shrub. Its habit 
is not unlike that of H. longiflora, but it is infinitely hand- 
somer. ‘The flowers are of the most intense violet or ultra- 
marine, two inches and a half long, and in clusters near the 
ends of the branches. Jt was only excelled at the late exhi- 
bition by the Cereus crenatus ; and will doubtless prove a 
most useful as well as beautiful addition to our hothouses. 
We long ago pointed out the probability that the plant 
called Rondeletia longiflora by Chamisso and Schlechtendahl 
would prove to be really a different genus ; and we are glad to 
find our suspicions confirmed by Mr. Bentham, who proposes to 
name this species and the R. longiflora after R. B. Hinds, Esq. 
the zealous and indefatigable naturalist, whose plants, collected 
for his private use, are now in course of publication at the 
public expense. 
Hınosıa will be found to differ from Rondeletia in its 
funnel-shaped, not strictly hypocrateriform, corolla, which is 
moreover destitute of that faucial coronet which in R. odorata 
is so conspicuous. 
