FROM THE SOCIETY'S GAKDEN. 319 



The variety sent home by Mr, Fortune lias semi-double sweet- 

 scented flowers of a rich purple, about two inches across. 



A hardy half-climbing kind, resembling the Rosa bracteata in 

 habit, growing freely in any good, rich soil, and easily increased 

 by budding or by cuttings in the usual way. It flowers from 

 June to August. It is a distinct, but not very ornamental kind, 

 with sweet-scented semi-double deep purple flowers. 



Aufjust 14, 1848. 



39. ACHIMENES MISERA.* 



Presented to the Society by G. U. Skinner, Esq., in the 

 spring of 1848, and said to be from Guatemala. 



This plant, though bearing the name of an Achimenes, is a 

 mere weed, with small dingy whitish flowers speckled with purple 

 in the inside, of no interest whatever. It has been frequently 

 raised in the mould of plants imported from Guatemala. The 

 corolla has three deep depressions on its under side, with three 

 corresponding abrupt elevations along the lower lip, and the 

 filaments become spiral; circumstances which may hereafter lead 

 to the formation oi' a new genus. 



August 14, 1848. 



40. NEMOnilLA MACULATA.f BenthcDu. 

 Raised from Californian seeds sent home by Mr. Hartweg. 



This is the best annual yet raised from Mr. Hartvveg's seeds. 

 With the habit of N. insignis, it has whitish flowers, distinguished 

 by a deep violet blotch on the end of each lobe of the corolla. 

 It varies, however, much in their colour, the dots being some- 

 times faint, ill defined, and run ; the veins, too, of the corolla are 

 often of a pale blue, which interferes mucli with the gay effect of 

 the blossoms. It will therefore require to have its seeds saved 

 from carefully selected plants. Mr. Hartweg called it N. spe- 



* A. misera ; tomentoso-pubescens, foliis oppositis scqualibus basi haud 

 obliquis obloiigis grosse serratis, pedunculis solitariis axillaribus petioli 

 lougitudiue, corolla; campanulatae intus 3-cristatse lobis erectis subrotuudo- 

 ovatis, tube basi oequali, calycis laciniis lanceolatis corollas subaqualibus, 

 filamentis spiralibus, annulo completo. — J. L. 



t N. maculaia; patentim pilosa, foliis radicalibus pinnatifidis lyratis 

 laciuiis brevibus obtusis subfalcatis 2-3-lobis integrisque supremis cuneatis 

 trilobis, pedunculis 1-floris foliis longioribus, calycis siiiubus reflexis, corolla 

 calyce niultn longiore appendicibus crenulatis convolutis, oviilis plurimis. — 

 J. I.. 



