It IS doubtless true that Cantua luxlfolia is a variable plant^ more or less downy, and having 
flowers either crimson and yellow as this is, or wliite and yellow, or perhaps merely yellow. All 
these forms may be expected to appear from the same batch of seeds. In fact, among Mr. W. 
LobVs dried specimens, no fewer than six different numbers are occupied by the forms of the same 
species, this a hmifolia. But the materials before us lead to the inference that other forms of the 
' ■ in temperate South America, which are specifically distinct from C. hixifoUa, and from 
each other. 
In the fii-st place we liave a Peruvian plant collected by Dombey, and distributed by the Paris 
This, which is nearly entirely glabrous. 
under the name of C. grandiflora. No 
as the corolla tube ; it is probably C. ovata. 
huxifoU 
with a viscid glandular pubescence, an extremely narrow crim 
calyx 
latter tapering to the base, and an inconsiderable limb, shorter than the projecting stamens. Tliat 
we presume to be C. tomentosa. 
Knally 
growing 
calyxes, ahnost half as long as the tube of the yeUow corolla; and to this the name of C. umfii 
seems to belong. 
These plants are not unlikely to appear in our gardens now that the importation of seeds 1 
commenced,_ and at all events should be diligently sought for by those who have correspondents 
either iJohvia or Peru. 
