We likewife received it from Mr. Loddiges, Nurferyman, at 

 Hackney, who raifed it fome years ago from feeds he received 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. This excellent cultivator, 

 from his extenfive correfpondence with feveral far-diftant 

 countries, has been the means of introducing many rare 

 exotics into our gardens, and to his experience and fkill in 

 horticulture, the prefervation and propagation of more, that 

 would have been otherwife loft, is to be entirely attributed. 

 Of his liberality in communicating his poffeflions, for the pro- 

 motion of fcience, the numbers of our magazine bear ample 

 teftimony, and in return, we confider it as a duty impofed 

 upon us, thus to record his merits, by naming a genus after 

 him. That the one we have chofen is very diftincl, we ap- 

 prehend the fingular form of the corolla will fufficiently decide* 

 although wc have not yet been fo fortunate as to meet with a 

 feed-veffel. 



It is a tolerably hardy greenhoufe fhrub, flowers freely, and 

 is readily propagated by cuttings. BIofToms in May and 

 June. 



Linn.eus fometimes amufed himfelf with fancying a 

 refemblance between the genus and the perfon to whofe 

 honour it is dedicated ; and fuch conceits may at leaft ferve to 

 affifl; the memory. So in Loddigelia, the minute white 

 flandard may be confidered as the emblem of the modeft pre- 

 tentions of this venerable cultivator ; the broad keel, of his 

 real ufefulnefs to fcience ; and the far-extended wings, as that 

 of his two fons, 



SlC PR.ESTENT ViRTUTE PATRI, SIC FRUGIBUS AMBO. 



