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doubly serrated, the serratures mucronate. Corymb large, the capitula clustered at the ends of the branches. Flowers 
remarkable for the exceedingly long purple styles, which have, at first sight, almost the effect of a many-flowered ray. 
The corollas are also purple. Achenium angular. Pappus of few scabrous sette." 
If Conoclmium differs as a genus from HehecUniumy merely in having a smooth conical receptacle, instead of a hairy 
convex one, — very small matters, — then no doubt this plant has been wrongly placed by Morren. But if the genera differ 
in the coloured enlarged bracts of the one, as compared with the herbaceous bracts of the other, then Morren*s view may 
be the more correct. But, in truth, the genera are so nearly allied that it would be better to unite them than to waste 
words in unprofitable discussions concerning distinctions which are fleeting and undeterminate. Sir W. Hooker adds that 
the plant is Mexican and not Brazilian. 
300, EoGiERA Menechma. TlancTion. A 
stove shrub of the order of Cinchonads. Flowers 
pale salmon-coloured. Native of Guatemala. 
Introduced by the Horticultural Society, (Fig. 
154^ reduced^ with flowers by the side^ of the 
natural size.) 
In his account of this genus, at t. 442 of the Flort 
des SerreSy M. Planchon distinguished from his R. amoena, 
a plant which he called R. Menechma^ by its stamens being 
inserted near the orifice of the tube, and liaving paler 
pollen, and by the shortness of the style, which does not 
In other respects it was 
We entertain no 
reach half way up the corolla. 
said to be wonderfully like R. amcemi. 
doubt that his species is what is now figured from a 
specimen in one of the hothouses of the Horticultural 
Society, although in some respects the resemblance fails. 
It has the same manner of growth and similar foliage, 
but is more downy ; and the leaves are more ovate. The 
branches are covered with a close fur instead of having 
a fine pubescence. The flowers are not so large nor so 
compactly arranged, and are much paler; the lobes of the 
corolla are almost acute instead of being emarginate; and 
the anthers are placed just below the throat of the corolla. 
We do not, however, find the style alwa^ s as JI. Planchon 
describes it ; sometimes it is protruded beyond the orifice 
of the corolla as in 7?. amoenay sometimes it is not half the 
length of the corolla. Both these plants are very useful 
aids in decorating stoves, and possess the good quality of growing without unwillingness under tlie commonest management. 
Dampness, light, tropical warmth, and a light vegetable soil, are all the requisites which they demand. 
301. TnopyEOLUM PENDULUM. KlotzscL An annual (?) chmbing, half-hardy plant, with 
yellow flowers, from Central America. Introduced by Mr. Mathieu, Nurseryman, Berlin. 
Branches shining, round, bright green, climbing. Leaves peltate, smooth, glaucous beneath, deep green above, 
rounded and truncate at the base, slightly five-lobed, w^th short acute lobes of which the middle one is mucronate. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous. Calyx five-parted, yellow, with oblong lobes tapering to the point, the three upper 
curved backwards, the two lower nearly erect, together with the middle one of the upper set greenish at the point. 
Petals yellow, spathulate, crenated on the upper edge, the three lower long-stalked and whole coloured, the two upper 
the edge. Filaments yellowish. Anthers 
greyish green. Kaised fr 
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h parallel red lines and a dull violet bar near 
M. Warczewitsch's collections, Alhem. 
Oartenseit 
302. Epidendrum actculaee. Bateman 
stih t. 30 
Mc 
t. 4572). A Mexican epiphyte, with rather gay 
panicles of purplish blossoms, and very narrow leaves. Introduced about 1840. Flowers in June. 
Ihi&a 
that it was undescribed, was originally published by Mr. Bateman, in 1841, as a native of the Bahamas, upon the 
authority of Mr. Skinner. We have seen no native Bpecimens from tliat island ; but it is undoubtedly Mexican, being 
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