Curtis at Tab. 230 of this work ; yet that such is the case we 

 have no hesitation m saying. It has long been in cultivation at 

 Kew, and Messrs. Veitch have sent -us fine specimens raised from 

 seeds they received from the Nielgherries. Many of the leaves 

 measure six inches in length and three m breadth. The panicle 

 is two and more feet long; the flowers are one and a quarter 

 inch long in the tube and more than an inch broad in the limb 

 remarkably secund, and the colour is a bright brick-red par- 

 taking of nothing of that purplish hue which induced Linnaus 

 to call the species - rosea." Perhaps Loureiro and Boissier had 

 this variety (or this coloured variety at least) in view when they 

 gave it the name of coccinea, but the difference is hardly such 

 as to justify the change of the old Linnaean and well-established 

 name of Plumbago rosea to P. coccinea, as Boissier has done 

 Popularly, too, " the rose is red." 



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