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it came from Demerara ; but considering the negligent way 
in which the collection at Woburn has been managed, this 
cannot be relied upon. It is a stove plant of great beauty, 
with spikes of fine long crimson flowers. 
15. LENNEA robinioides. 
Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, Icones plantarum, t. 26. 
* Lennea N. Calyx urceolato-campanulatus, subbilabiatus, labio superiore 
breviore, recto, bidentato, inferiore tridentato, patente, subincurvo, den- 
tibus acutis. Corolle papilionaceæ vexillum obcordatum, convexiuscu- 
lum, breviter unguiculatum, patentissimum, alas liberas longitudinaliter 
subdimidiato - conduplicatas et carinam ecalcaratam vix superans. 
Stamina 10, monadelpha; anthers breves, obtuse, conformes. Ova- 
rium subsessile, supra ad basin profunde sulcatum, tri-quadri-ovulatum. 
Stylus filiformis, apice involutus, supra, germineque usque ad apicem 
linea longitudinali pilosa vestitus ; stigma capitellatum. Legumen . . . 
Arbor ? mexicana, glabra, Robiniæ facie ; foliis impari-pinnatis, distichis ; 
stipulis liberis, deciduis, subulatis ; foliolis 4—5 jugis, basi aculeato- 
stipellatis ; racemis axillaribus, simplicibus, pendulis; floribus parvis, 
roseis, calycibusque glabris; pedicellis basi articulatis, bractea persis- 
tente munitis." 
* I. robinioides ; glabra; foliolis quadri quinque-jugis cum impari, ellipticis, 
lutescenti-viridibus, membranaceis, apice retuso-marginatis ; racemis 
solitariis, calycis dentibus acutis, margine puberulis." 
The seeds of this greenhouse shrub were sent by Deppe 
and Schiede to the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin, where the 
plant has flowered, and proved to be, in the opinion of Dr. 
Klotzsch, a new genus of the tribe of Loteæ. It has small 
pinnated leaves, and clusters of pretty drooping crimson 
flowers. It loses its leaves in the winter, and grows very 
well in the open air during summer ; but as it lowers in May, 
or even earlier, it can only be treated as a greenhouse plant. 
16. ECHEVERIA bracteolata. 
Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, Icones plantarum, t. 27. 
«E. bracteolata ; foliis alternis, carnosis, spathulatis, breviter acutis, paten- 
tibus, longitudinaliter excavatis, supra glaucescenti viridibus, subtus 
. albido-glaucescentibus, in apice ramorum confertis; racemis axillaribus, 
simplicibus, subinde profunde furcatis; bracteis carnosis, lineari- 
spathulatis, acutis, sessilibus, basi gibbo acuto productis; floribus 
secundis, pedicellatis; pedicellis bibracteolatis ; corollis campanulato- 
urceolatis, e flavido coccineis.” 
For the introduction of this plant we are indebted to.Mr. 
