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11. LoPEZiA MACKOrHYLLA. Plu/ichou, in Flore des Serves, Vll. 

 709, t. 23, p. 177. Jehlia fuchsioides. Hort. Germ. 



Received from Messrs. Riuz, of Frankfort, in April, 1852. 



Tliis is a soft smooth pale green slirub, with a fleshy tuberous 

 root, like some Fuchsias. The leaves are stalked, almost wholly 

 smooti), oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, nan'owed to the base, 

 where they terminate abruptly in a rounded manner, strongly 

 serrated, and furnished witli deep lateral diverging veins, which 

 give the leaves tlie appearance of a Hornbeam tree's ; at the base 

 they are furnished with a pair of red pyranndal short glands. 

 The flowers stand on long slender stalks, singly in the axils of 

 leaves, are as lai'ge as those of a Fuchsia globosa, and of a very 

 ileep rose colour, which pervades every part except the anther, 

 winch is blue. 



At first siglit this plant would not be taken for a Lopezia, the 

 sepals being altogether petaloid, and the glandular knee peculiar 

 to two of the petals of the genus seeming to be absent. But it 

 will be found upon a careful examination that the knees are 

 really present, only they stand very low down on the petals, so as 

 to be concealed by the other parts. 



The name here employed, but w ith some doubt, is that under 

 which M. Planchon has given it in the Flore des Serres. It 

 seems impossible that it can be the plant which Mr. Bentham 

 first described as Lopezia niacrophylla, in the Plantse Hart- 

 wegianse, a shrub witli downy leaves and terminal panicles of 

 flowers. That species I susjject exists in tlie Society's Garden, 

 from Mr. Skinner, but, not having flowered, cannot at present be 

 identified. Till materials accumulate for the satisfactory settle- 

 ment of tin's question the name employed by M. Planchon had 

 better stand unchanged. 



It is a green-house soft-wooded shrub, growing freely in a 

 mixture of sandy loam and leaf mould, and requiring tlie same 

 treatment as a Fuchsia. It is increased by cuttings put in sand 

 under a bell-glass, and flowers during winter and spring. 



It is likely to be valuable as a winter flowering plant, notwith- 

 sianding that it is coarse in folia-'e and habit. 



12. Senecio concolor. De Cand., Prodr., vi. 407. 



Received from Sir Charles Hulse, Bart., in August, 1852; 

 said to have been raised from seeds sent from the Cape 

 of Good Hope by Colonel G. Buller. 



We have little doubt that this fine showy peremiial is that 



