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38. SPIRANTHES Lindhrjana. Link, Klotzsch & Otto, ics t. 1 1. 



This is a variety of S. data, with the leaves spotted with 

 light glaucous green. 



39. MARIANTHUS cceruleo-punctatus ; ramis pubescentibus, filiformibus, 

 longissimis volubilibus ; foliis brevi-petiolatis evanescente-villosiusculis, 

 inferioribus spathulatis, brevissime-acutis grosse serrato-dentatis aut pin- 

 natisectis, superioribus oblongis, utrinque acutis, integerrimis ; pedun- 

 culis solitariis pubescentibus, in apice rainulorum oppositifoliis, corym- 

 bosis, 7-19-floris; floribus pallide-'violaceis ; foliolis calycis pilosis ; co 

 rollse petalis oblongis, acutissimis, 3 superioribus medio expallentibus, 

 cceruleo-punctatis ; antheris cceruleis. Link, Klotzsch §• Otto, ic. t. 12. 



The seed of this plant was received from Van Diemen's 

 Land in 1839, with the name of Beautiful sweet-scented 

 creeper. It has pale violet flowers, with deep blue dots and 

 blue anthers, arranged in corymbs. It requires in the winter 

 a temperature of from 45° to 50° but in summer may be 

 treated as most New Holland plants. It blossoms in May and 

 June, and may be increased by cuttings placed under a bell- 

 glass. 



40. SALVIA tubifera. Cavanilles Ic. 1. 23. t. 25. Bentbam Labiat. 298. 



(S. longijlora. Willd. Sp. pi. 1. 141.) 



This charming plant has been lately flowered in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society, who received it from 

 Mexico, where it was met with by Mr. Hartweg. It has a 

 stem about 3 feet high, ovate, thin, long-stalked leaves, and 

 long racemes of slender purple flowers, drooping gracefully 

 from the ends of the branches. The flowers are much the 

 colour of some purple Acanthaceous plants, such as Justicia 

 elegans, but they are perhaps more vivid. It is one of the 

 best Salvias we yet have. It has flowered in a warm green- 

 house, but is probably as hardy as others. 



41. BURLINGTONIA figida. Sertum Orcbidaceum, t. 34. 



One of the many fine plants inhabiting the woods of Bra- 

 zil, our knowledge of which was confined to dried specimens 

 until the enterprise of British cultivators succeeded in trans- 

 ferring it to our gardens. It has been at length procured 

 in a living state by the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose stove it 



