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and in the rich abundance of its handsome flowers it has the superiority over this: hut here, each mdividual flou 
much larger and handsomer than in that species. We have measured these flowers two inches and . 
IS 
quarter 
ekin. The plant was 
Thomas Lobb. It 
accords with many of the characters of ^A/ia«J«, (^i,«^e<e» De Cand.) loranthifoUa Wall. ; but that species U downy 
and differs m other points. We have rarely seen a more truly lovely plant. It flo^vered in the stove of Messrs. Veitch 
m December, I80O Leaves on very short thick petioles, lanceolate, much acuminated, entire, glabrous. Flowers from 
the woody portion of the stem, extra^axillary. Two to three peduncles spring from the same point, and are pendent 
thickened upwards, and red. Flowers large, and hanging down. Calyx small, pale yellow. Corolla large, pure china- 
are 
oblique, wavy red hnes, generally takmg the shape of the letter V, and more or less united : the mouth of the corolla \n 
contracted : the five acute lobes reflexed. Stamens and style considerably exserted beyond the mouth of the corolla 
We learn that it is an evergreen shrub of easy cultivation, and that it flowered when not more than two feet hi>h It is 
treated as a stove-plant ; but, judging from its allies and from its native climate, we are inclined to think it will succeed 
m a close greenhouse. Like many species of this family, the present is probably subepipI.yUil, deriving its chief 
nounshment from an atmosphere charged with moisture, and at a medium temperature ; such being the general character 
of the lower region of EricacecE and Vacciniacem within the tropics.— .BoC Mag., t, 4.566. 
289. Saurauja machophylla. Linden 
shaggy white-flowered stove shrub^ from 
Guatemala. Belongs to Heathworts (Ericaceae.) Blossoms "in Tebmary. (Fig. 148 reduced j A, 
natural 
A correspondent in Edinburgh has sent us this through the post. He says that it came up among Orchids imported 
from Guatemala, by Mr. Skinner, and that it fonns a vigorous shrub 3 or 4 feet high. The leaves are 6 to 8 inches long 
covered with soft hair, obovate, tapering to tlie base, and serrated. Tlie inflorescence is shaggy, with harsh hairs, panicled' 
with white flowers. It is evidently the S. macrophylla of Linden's Collections in the Caraccas (No IOC) : and must be 
nearly related to the S. vUlosa of De Candolle, for which we took it when it first reached us. It is not a showy species 
but is useful among winter flowering thinsrs. J r > 
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