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with llumphius's %ure ; but it comes from China, and not 

 from Amboyna. It has the habit of V. Roxburghii, to which 

 Sir W. Hooker has referred it ; but it differs not only in the 

 whole colour of its sepals and petals, and the other characters 

 above indicated, but also in being a large lax growing plant, 

 five or six feet high, with much thinner and longer leaves. 

 The former is a short growing plant, with the leaves very 

 closely set together. The middle lobe of the lip of V. Rox- 

 burghii is oblong and contracted at the point ; here it is 

 wedge-shaped and two-lobed. 



43. HINDSIA violacea. 



Eentham MSS. 



H. violacea ; incano-tomentosa, foliis ovalibus acutis sulcatis subtus rugosis 

 long^ petiolatis, peduuculis brevibus 2-floris, bracteis calycisque laciniis 

 exterioribus hirsutis spathulatis acutis, corollse 4-5-lob0e tubo longissimo 

 laciniis ovalibus acutis caruosis fauce nuda, stigmatibus filiformibua 

 exsertis. 



A most beautiful plant imported by Messrs. Veitch and 

 Sons from South Brazil, and exhibited by them at the late 

 meeting in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, on which 

 occasion it received the large silver medal. We presume it 

 to be a hardy stove or tender greenhouse shrub. Its habit 

 is not unlike that of H. longiflora, but it is infinitely hand- 

 somer. The flowers are of the most intense violet or ultra- 

 marine, two inches and a half long, and in clusters near the 

 ends of the branches. It was only excelled at the late exhi- 

 bition by the Cereus crenatus ; and will doubtless prove a 

 most useful as well as beautiful addition to our hothouses. 



We long ago pointed out the probability that the plant 

 called Rondeletia longiflora by Chamisso and Schlechtendahl 

 would prove to be really a diff'erent genus ; and we are glad to 

 find our suspicions confirmed by Mr. Bentham; who proposes to 

 name this species and the R. longiflora after R. B. Hinds, Esq. 

 the zealous and indefatigable naturalist, whose plants, collected 

 for his private use, are now in course of publication at the 

 public expense. 



HiNDsiA will be found to difler from Rondeletia in its 

 funnel-shaped, not strictly hypocrateriform, corolla, which is 

 moreover destitute of that faucial coronet which in R. odorata 

 is so conspicuous. 



