** It is a climber, and may be applied to cover the walls in conser- 

 vatories, as well as in the open ground during- summer. It presents 

 a really surprising aspect, when the outer walls of a greenhouse are 

 covered with a screen formed by its numerous branches, tinged with 

 red, and loaded with the most beautiful purplish-black flowers hang- 

 ing down from the red calyxes. Out of every axil, to the most remote 

 part of the twigs, a flower takes its origin, hanging down from a long 

 stalk, which like ihe underside of the leaves and branches is coloured 

 red. There can be no doubt, that it is, of all the known climbing 

 plants with which we cover walls during summer, the most remark- 

 able and beautiful, and ought to be particularly recommended, as 

 it is easily cultivated, and flowers so very freely. Its propagation is 

 by seeds and cuttings. The seeds are sown in March and April, that 

 the young plants may become strong enough in time for planting 

 in the open ground, where they remain dui'ing the whole summer, 

 until frost sets in ; if these plants are to be preserved, they should be 

 potted off and put in a conservatory, where they prosper in a tempe- 

 rature, from 43° to 48° Fahr. They are also easily propagated by 

 cuttings." 



This mode of management appears to have been attended with 

 great success, for when the plant was observed in the Berlin Garden 

 in the autumn of 1833 by Dr. Henderson, it was in a much more 

 thriving state than we have seen it in England. 



Its next appearance in print was in the Transactions of the Ma- 

 thematical and Physical Class (we believe) of the Munich Academy 

 of Sciences, where it was published with an admirable description and 

 figure by Professor Zuccarini ; who, however, had altered his opinion 

 of its belonging to a distinct genus, and called it LopJiospermum atro- 

 sanguineiim ; this must have been in 1833, but our copy of the memoir 

 to which we refer, bears no date. 



Then Mr. Don, in August 1834, published it under the name of 

 Lophospermwn RJiodocldton, and he was followed in the succeeding 

 December by Professor Graham, who adhered to Professor Zucca- 

 rini's first opinion, that the plant is distinct from Lophospermum, in 

 which we entirely agree. In such groups as the Antirrhineous 

 section of Scrophularinege, less weighty reasons than the great co- 

 loured campanulate calyx, and salver-shaped corolla of Rhodochiton, 

 as compared with the five-parted herbaceous calyx, and funnel- 

 shaped corolla of Lophospermum are universally admitted as suflScient 

 to justify the separation of such genera as Antirrhinum, Linaria and 

 Anarrhinum, and we cannot conceive upon what principle the former 

 are to be combined while the latter remain disunited. 



In this country the Rhodochiton appears to require exactly the 

 same treatment as Lophospermum ; we saw it in great beauty at Mrs. 

 Marryat's in a pot in the greenhouse last September, and it grew very 

 well in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, trained to a pole in 

 the open ground. Its greatest enemy seems to be bright sunlight. 



