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did not flower. It would doubtless succeed with care in 

 the open border." 



The deep rich scarlet blossoms are highly ornamental. 



20. HUNTLEYA meleagris. Bot. Reg.fol 1991. 



This rare epiphyte, described very briefly in the Botani- 

 cal Register, under fol. 1991, has blossomed with Messrs. 

 Rollissons. The flower was three inches across ; the colour 

 pale yellowish white, with a brownish purple tint towards 

 the upper part of the sepals and petals. The lip was of the 

 same pale colour as the base of the petals. Across the bend 

 of the lip is stretched a broad yellow-fringed crest, which is 

 very remarkable. The colours were all very much less 

 brilliant than if the plant had flowered at a brighter season 

 of the year. 



21. HOITZIA mexicana. Lam. encycl. 3. p. 134. 



This charming plant, which has been so long a desidera- 

 tum, has at length blossomed in the garden of Thomas 

 Harris, Esq. of Kingsbury. The blossoms were sent me on 

 the 1st of February, when,, owing to the season, they had 

 gained but little colour : it will be found that the summer 

 flowers are of the most brilliant red ; and that the plant 

 itself is one of the most beautiful of the Mexican Flora. 



22. IPOMCEA Sclnedeana. Hamilton not Zuccarini. 



I. Schiedeana ; caule inferne sublignoso, sursum crassiore, ramoso ; foliis petiolo 

 torto brevioribus, subprofunde cordatis subrotundis, breve et acute acumi- 

 natis, subnovemnerviis, reticulato-venosis ; ramis omnibus floriferis, axilla- 

 ribus, racemiferis : racemis lateralibus terminalibu.sque multifloris (6-10 

 floris) ; floribus amplissimis speciosissimis, limbo laete serotino-coeruleo : 

 staminibus alternis brevioribus, omnibus inclusis : stylo gracili, subexserto ; 

 stigmatibus binis globosis. — Wm. Hamilton Mss. 



" For this splendid climber we are indebted to that dis- 

 tinguished botanist Dr. William Schiede, after whom we 

 have named it, and by whom a few of its seeds were sent, with 

 many others, last summer to Dr. Hamilton of Plymouth, 

 who gave some to Mr. Pontey, by whom they were sown 

 towards the end of last June, producing the present 



