Tas. 5290. 
RHODANTHE Manetussit, var. maculata. 
Mangles’ Rhodanthe, spotted-flowered var. 
Nat. Ord. Composir™.—SYNGENESIA A‘QUALIS. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5283.) 
RHopantuE Manglesii. 
RuopantHeE Manglesii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1703. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3483. 
Don, Brit. Fl. Gard, ser. 2. t. 295. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 159. Lehm. 
Enum. Pl. Preiss. v. 1. p. 447. Paxton, Mag. of Bot. v. 3. p. 173. Fl. des 
Serres, v. 6. p. 622. 
Var. sanguinea ; floribus eximie purpureo-sanguineis, disco atro-sanguineo. 
RuODANTHE Manglesii, var. sanguinea. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5283. 
RHODANTHE sanguinea. Hort. 
Var. maculata ; floribus duplo majoribus extus pallide roseis fere albis, radii in- 
volucralis basi atro-purpureis, disco flavo. (Tas. Nostr. 5290.) 
RHODANTHE maculata. Drummond, MSS., et Hort. 
Dr. Lindley, the author of the genus and species, says of this 
plant,—‘‘Its season of perfection is May and June, at which 
time there is nothing in the gardens that equals it in beauty, 
for it possesses the brilliancy of the Cape Helichrysa, without 
their stiffness and formality.” And that was said nearly thirty 
years ago, when the more common condition of the species only 
- was known to us, and well figured by Dr. Lindley, Bot. Reg. 
t. 1703, and by us in the present work, Tab. 3483; but Mr. 
Drummond, who may be called par excellence the “ Swan River 
Botanist,” long since called our attention to dried specimens of 
two beautiful varieties which grew wild in Western Australia ; 
to the one he gave the name of sanguinea, to the other maculata. 
The first of these we published lately at our Tab. 5283,* and 
the other we have now the pleasure to give on the accompanying 
plate; and both have been derived from the same source, Mr. 
Thompson, of Ipswich, who raised them from Western Australian 
* By an accident Mr. Thompson’s name was omitted as the importer of that 
plant. 
JANUARY Ist, 1862. 
