name of C. strigulosa, Kth.? which has been the origin of its 
garden appellation. It is, however, not that species, but a 
Mexican plant found by Mr. Hartweg on the top of the 
Cumbre, a mountainous ridge between Oaxaca and La Sierra. 
It is one of those curious productions in which it would 
seem as if the work of Nature had stopped before it was 
finished ; for instead of six petals, the customary number in 
the genus Cuphea, it has invariably only two, and they are 
stuck on one side only of the calyx, giving the gay orange and 
scarlet flowers a very singular appearance. These flowers 
look, moreover, much like those of a Tropeolum, such as tri- 
colorum, formed on the stem of a Lopezia ; an odd similarity, 
which may be recommended to the attention of the ingenious 
author of the Vestiges of the Natural History of the Creation. 
Our drawing was made in October last, in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, where the plant is found to be a 
greenhouse shrub, which grows freely in sandy peat and 
loam, in equal proportions. Being a plant of free growth, an 
ample supply: of water is necessary during the summer 
months, and air at all times when the weather is favourable. 
In winter it should be kept in an airy greenhouse, and sup- 
plied with water once or twice a week. 
Lixe many other plants, it reguires to be re-potted in 
spring, and encouraged to make wood for flowering in 
summer. It will doubtless be easily multiplied from cuttings 
of young wood, under ordinary treatment. 
