340. Franciscea Calycina. Bentham. {alias Besleria inodora FeUozii alias Pranciscea 
confertiflora Eenfrey.) A beautiful stove slirub, with large violet flowers. Native of Brazil. 
Belongs to Linariads. 
« We continue the genus Franciscea, as sanctioned by Mr. Miers, in the fifth volume, new series of « Annals of 
Natural History/ for the blue-flowered species of Brumfehia, though we fear Mr. Bentham's views of the unsoundness 
of the generic distinction are too true. We find the present plant figured and described by Mr. Henfrey in the 
'Magazine of Botany/ under the name of F. confertijlora, and the only synonyme given is the Brimsfelsia confertiflora 
of Mr. Bentham, a species with which we are familiar, and of which there exists a splendid figure in Pohl's ' Plantarum 
Brasiliarum Tcones : * but the figure and description are totally at variance with our plant. It is unquestionably the 
F. (BrunsfehiaJ calycina of Bentham, figured, characteristically enough, in the « Flora Fluminensis,' and well distin- 
guished by the large inflated calyx and other characters. As we are indebted for our plant to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 
and Co., Exeter Nursery, who received it from Belgium, we presume that the Belgian horticulturists are answerable for 
anvihing wrong in the name, though that is not implied in the ' Magazine of Botany.' It is a most lovely species, and 
mmt soon be a great favourite with cultivators. Our garden is further indebted for a flowering plant to Messrs. 
Henderson, Pine Apple Place. It forms a compact bush, blossoming readily when eighteen inches high : and, like other 
real Francisceasj the flowers are at first violet-blue, then white, or nearly so. A moderate sized shrub, with terete, 
glabrous branches and copious evergreen foliage. Leaves alternate, on very short footstalks, nearly elliptical, entire, 
obtuse at the base, acute, or shortly acuminated at the point, glabrous, or with a slight degree of hairiness on the 
midrib beneath. Cymes few-flowered, generally terminal. Pedicels thickened, as long as the calyx. Calyx large, 
elongated, tubular and inflated, glabrous, five-toothed at the apex. Corolla large, rich purple, with a white ring round 
■ the mouth of the tube, soon changing to a pale purple, and then almost to white. Tube curved downwards, not much 
longer than the calyx : limb oblique with regard to the tube, more than two inches across, of five, broadly obovato- 
rotundate, horizontally spreading and waved segments. Stamens and style quite included,"— Bot, Mag. t. 4583. 
341. Yanda insignis. Blame. A fine stove epiphyte from Java. Tlowers yellow and brown 
with a whitish lip streaked at the base. Introduced by John Knowles, Esq. 
At last this long sought rarity has appeared. We owe to the kindness of John Knowles, Esq., of Manchester, a 
living specimen, which entirely confirms the accuracy of Dr. Blume's figure, and description. It is in the way of 
F. tricolor and suavis ; and the flowers are of the same size, with long white angular stalks. — Linden, 
The sepals and petals are dull yellow blotched with brown. The lip is white, with a faint shade of violet in the 
middle, and rich deep crimson streaks at the base. The flowers have a slight and agreeable fragrance, even when cut 
and kept in a sitting-room. 
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343. IxonA JAVA?^'iCA. Be Candolle. [alias Pavetta Javanica Blume.) A beautiful orange-flowered 
stove plants belonging to Cinchonads. Native of Java. Blossoms in March. 
" From the collection of Messrs. Rollisson, Tooting, who imported this very charming species of Ixora from Java, and 
with whom it blossomed in March 1851. It is handsome in the rich coral colour of the branches, in the full green of 
its copious foliage, and in the large corymbs of orange -scarlet flowers. The /. Javanica of Paxton, Mag. of Bot, v. 14, 
p. 265, is very difl'erent from this, and not Blume's plant. A shrub, glabrous in every part, with compact branches, 
which are rounded, and the younger ones at least of a rich coral colour. Leaves four to five or even six inches long, 
between coriaceous and membranaceous, ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, entire, pennlnerved, and acute or more or 
less attenuated at the base, where it gradually passes into a short petiole, not a quarter of an inch long. Stipules from 
a broad connate and therefore amplexicaul base, terminating suddenly in a long cuspidate spine-like point. Corymb 
terminal, large, on a long peduncle, which, as well as the trichotomoua branches, are deep coral-coloured. Calyx almost 
turbinate, with two small bracteoles at the base : the limb of four, erect, rounded, obtuse lobes. Tube of the corolla an 
inch and a half long, slender filiform, red : limb an inch across, deep orange red, tlie lobes horizontally patent, obovato- 
rotundate. Anthers linear, when perfect lying at the mouth of the corolla, but very deciduous. Style as long as the 
tube of the corolla ; its thickened bifid stigma a little exserted." 
"This, like the majority of the genus, is a showy species. Being a native of Java, it requires to be cultivated in a 
warm and moist stove ; and this is not only necessary in order to produce luxuriant growth, but also to prevent the 
plants from becoming infested with insects, to which the species of this and other allied genera are very commonly 
subject, and which often cannot be got rid of without making the plants look very unsightly and producing an unhealthy 
condition. Pits heated with fermenting stable litter or leaves, are well suited to the growth of such plants as Ixora ; 
the confined and moist atmosphere encourages a vigorous growth, and this, with the vapour arising from the fermenting 
matter, are great preventatives of the breeding of insects- The soil may consist of about one-half light loam and peat, 
or leaf-mould, with a small quantity of sharp sand, and care must be taken to drain it well, and, in shifting, not to over- 
pot it. This, like the rest of the genus, is readily increased by cuttings treated in the manner generally recommended 
for the propagation of hard-wooded stove plants."— i?o^ Mag,, t. 45B6. 
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