L. longiflora ; ramulis villosis, foliis obovatis acuminatis un- 
dulatis, corollae tubo calyce triplò longiore. 
It is from the latter species, found in Sierra Leone by 
Mr. George Don, that the character of the fruit and seed 
has been derived. The latter is very thin, and covered with 
long coarse hairs, in which the spiral thread occurring in 
many other Acanthads may be just discovered. 
Fig. 1. represents the calyx and lateral bracts of L. parvi- 
flora; 2. a section of the tube of its corolla; 3. a capsule and 
seeds, all magnified. 
Our drawing was made in the Nursery of Mr. Glendin- 
ning of Turnham Green, from whom we have received the 
following memorandum concerning the habits of the plant :— 
“ The present subject does not perhaps equal in beauty 
some of the plants from Western Africa, already published, 
but nevertheless it is a pretty and useful winter flowering 
species, with bright yellow flowers, contrasting well with that 
valuable old plant Eranthemum pulchellum, with blue flowers. 
On this account it is more especially desirable, because in the 
beginning of winter, at which period it flowered in my stove, 
we have little really to adorn such places. Its cultivation is 
rather peculiar. 1 have found it succeed best when treated 
in the following manner :—shift it in March, but not into too 
large a pot, using sandy peat with a small portion of loam; 
place it in a moist temperature in bottom heat, so as it may 
grow away freely; 75” will be sufficient for it. Towards 
summer it should be hardened by degrees to endure the tem- 
perature of a greenhouse, and in autumn it should be placed 
in a rather cool stove, where it will continue flowering for 
some months. ‘Phe plant is as yet scarce in this country: it 
1s not however difficult to propagate, as it will strike readily 
by cuttings, in heat under a hand-glass." 
