and young plants placed in the open border in the early 
summer will continue to flower till the autumnal frosts come 
on. Mr. Curtis, at his extensive Nursery of Glazenwood, 
(where this very beautiful drawing was made by Miss 
Da ty, in the summer of 1839,) has succeeded in produc- 
ing a great number of hybrids, by means of other species, 
and flowers of all kinds are the result, from the balloon 
form of the Fucusta globosa, to the peculiarly elongated 
figure here represented. ; 
Descr. Stem rather herbaceous and succulent than 
woody, terete, glabrous, more or less tinged with red. 
aves large, ovate or cordato-ovate, soft and flaccid, 
toothed at the margin, glabrous ; petiole short, thick, tinged 
with red, as are the veins of the leaf, especially beneath. 
Flowers in long, terminal, pendulous, leafy racemes ; leaves — 
small, otherwise similar to those of the main branches. 
Pedicels slender. Ovary and young fruit elliptical, downy. — 
Calyx bright red tipped with greenish, infundibuliform : 
tube very long, slender; limb of four erect, acuminated — 
segments, Petals shorter than the calyx-segments, deep — 
scarlet. Stamens included. Style longer than the calyx. — 
Stigma capitate. 
We take this opportuni 
veolens, figured at Tab, 3797, 
Mr. James M‘Nas, at the Hor 
but by Mr. James Macintos 
H, gardener t : , at Arch- 
erfiell. ‘Teak TAhink and gardener to Mrs. Fercuson, a 
him it i uni to us 
through Mr. M‘Nas, y him it was kindly communicated 
ity of mentioning, that the MANDEVILLA sua- 
was not, as there intimated, raised by — 
ticultural Society’s Garden of Edinburgh; — 
