passed through Glasgow with a noble flowering specimen. 
Seeds gathered also at Tandil* by Mr. Tweepie had been 
sent to the Right Hon. the Earl of Arran, in whose garden 
the plant was first raised : and we cannot but regret that it 
is not an entirely new species, which we should have been 
glad, in that case, to have honoured with the name of that 
distinguished nobleman, a name which, as Mr. Niven 
observes, is almost identified with that of the beautiful 
Genus in question. 
“ The plant is of easy culture, appearing to luxuriate ina 
mixture of peat, loam, and sand, with a small portion of 
well-rotted cow dung. The delightful jasinine-like odour 
of the flowers is greatest and most powerful about dusk and 
during the night : towards midday it diminishes consider- 
ably, gradually increasing again towards the evening.” 
(Mr. Niven)—The Messrs. Hanpasipe, of Musselburgh, 
possess Mr. Niven’s entire stock of this fine plant, and 
they propose disposing of it in April of next year (1839). 
Descr. It will be at once seen that this VERBENA belongs 
to the Metinpres group. The plant from which our draw- 
ing was made was about two feet high, erect, of very hand- 
some growth; the lower part bearing numerous more or 
less spreading branches, the main stein terminating in a 
spike of dense flowers, a span or more long. The tube 
of the corolla very long ; the limb of a delicate yellowish- 
white on first expansion, afterwards becoming purplish rose- 
coloured. In our native specimens the long tubular calyx 
is spirally twisted in age. 
* For an account of Mr. TwEEDIE’s Journey to the Serras de Tandil 
see TayLor’s Annals of Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 139. 
