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different from tlie plant called Ch. ochroleucus by DeCan- 

 doUe, and seems near, if not the same as, Ch, alpinus. 



^ 30. VERONICA diosmcBfolial Knowles & Wcstcott, Floral Cabinet, 1. 106. 

 A beautiful little shrub, from Van Diemen's Land, nearly 

 hardy, with small sweet box-like leaves, and numerous clusters 

 of blue flowers. It flowered in the Birmingham Botanic 

 garden, and was not killed, although in an exposed situation, 

 in the severe winter of 1837-^« — 'This plant is the D.for- 

 mosa R. Br. and not the V. diosmifolia of Cunningham. 



^ 31. HIBISCUS Cameroni; fruticosus foliosus piibescens, foliis quinque- 

 partitis, partibus dentatis, petalis ovatis obtusis margiuibus uudulatis, 

 involucellis minutis. Knowles ^ Westcott, Floral Cabinet, t. 97. 



This belongs to the frutescent division of the sixth section 

 {Abelmoschui) of DeCandolle. Flowers dull buff, tinted with 

 rose, handsome. Native of Madagascar, and therefore of 

 course a stove plant. 



^ 32. CROTALARIA undulata ; sufFruticosa sericeo-pubescens, foliis bre- 

 viter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis undulatis miicronatis, stipulis subulatis 

 petioHs longioribus decurrentibus, floribns magnis luteis, calycis segmen- 

 tis superioribus inferioribus multo majoribus. Knowles ^ Westcott, 

 Floral Cabinet, v. 2. 158. 



A showy species allied to C. rubiginosa, with large bright 

 yellow flowers. It is a greenhouse shrub, and was imported 

 from Mexico by Mr. Barker. 



^ 33. PERISTERIA guttata; scapo brevi pendulo multifloro, racemo denso 

 secuudo, labelli dimidio inferiore disco crasso concavo lobis lateralibus 

 vix conspicuis : superiore ovato margine denticulate apice integro ab- 

 rupte iucui'vo intfis tuberculis minutissimis obsito, columna aptera. 

 Knowles ^' Westcott, Floral Cabinet, t. 70. 



A beautiful plant allied to P. pendula, " from which it 

 differs in the colour, the shape, and the smaller size of the 

 flowers, in the absence of wings from the column, and in the 

 scarcely developed lateral lobes of the labellum. It is much 

 more nearly allied to the P. cerina of the Botanical Register, 

 with which it agrees in the general shape of the flowers, and 

 the denticulated margin of the middle lobe of the labellum, 

 but differs from it in the colour and copious markings of the 

 flower, in the entire not emarginate point of the middle lobe, 

 and in the absence of distinct lateral lobes. Still however the 

 resemblance between them, except in colour, is so great that 



