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198. PHOLIDOTA conchoidea ; spica pendula disticlia imbricata, bracteis 

 oblongis concavis apiculatis, sepalorum lateralium carina limbo sequali, 

 epichilio 3-lobo laciniis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio obsolete, hypo- 

 chilio utrinque in lobum ascendentem producto basi intus lineis tribus 

 elevatis distantibus. 



This curious plant was found in Manilla by Mr, Cuming, 

 and raised at Knypersley, where it blossomed a month ago, 

 after having been occupied in forming its flower spike during 

 the space of six months. It is very like P. imbricata, but its 

 flowers are nearly twice as large, and the keels of the lateral 

 sepals are so deep and concave as to give the lower side of 

 the flower the appearance of the inside of a bivalve shell. 



199. CONVOLVULIS fiorUus. Linn, suppl. 136. Jacq. ic. rar. t. 34. 

 This plant has flowered with Mr. W. Young of the Milford 



Nursery. It is a shrub with very long grey willow-like 

 leaves, and terminal panicles of small cream-coloured flowers. 

 It was raised from seeds collected in Tenerifffe by Mr. Barker 

 Webb. Linnaeus calls it the most beautiful of all Convolvuli, 

 because of the abundance of its flowers : but they are far too 

 small and colourless to justify such an encomium. It is how- 

 ever a pretty greenhouse shrub. 



200. PRONAYA 'elegam. Hugel enum. p. 9. Bot. Arch. t. 6. 



A twining evergreen shrub from Swan River, with narrow 

 greyish green leaves, and terminal clusters of pale lilac 

 flowers. It has the habit of a Sollya, to which it is nearly 

 allied, but it is very inferior to it in beauty. No doubt a 

 greenhouse plant, although it may live out of doors in the 

 summer, or be capable of enduring a mild winter. Specimens 

 have been sent me by Mr. Young, from the Milford 

 Nursery. 



201. IPOM^A pendula. R. Brown, prodr. 436. Endlich. prodr. fl. 

 Norf. 52. 



This pretty plant has been raised by Mr. Robert Arnott, 

 of the Cambrian Nursery, Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, 

 from Norfolk Island seed. It was sown in the spring of 1839, 

 and was preserved through the winter in a greenhouse, the 

 temperature of which did not exceed 50". It is a rather woody 

 plant, with many prickles on the stem. The leaves are digi- 

 tate, with the two lower lobes usually 2-lobed j the purple 



