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Juicing which it remains in flower, 
hairiness. 
It is altogether green in the herbage, and white in the flowers, and destitute of 
Its brittle tapering stems are from one and a half to two feet high. 
are 
obtuse. The leaves are succuleut, romidish ovate, slightly and setaceously serrate, becoming nearly entire when old ; 
at the base they are very slightly obhque, and not at all heart-shaped. The flowers appear in little terminal and axillary 
erect c^mes, when young, closely 
divisions, of which two are round 
of which two are smaller. The 
and rounded at the point ; its 
This species, now common in 
from earth sent by Sello w from Port 
covered over with round membranous bracts. The male flowers have four 
and large, two linear. The females consist of five roundish ovate parts, 
fruit has three wings, of which one is rather larger than the others, 
placentae are double, as in the Diploclinian division of the order, 
cultivation, was originally raised in the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin, 
Allegretto in Southern Brazil, and was published under the present name 
in 1828, in Link and Otto's Icones. The year after, the same name was given by the late Professor Graham to a totally 
diflerent species, with red stems and flow^ers, and leafy persistent stipules, figured in the Botanical Magazine^ t 2920, 
and perhaps not sufiiciently distinct from B. spatJtulata, 
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KooTcer 
A beautiful perennial, with glaucous leaves and loose 
panicles of crimson flowers. Native of Texas. Flowers in June and July. Introduced at the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
This is a charming new Pentstemon, very distinct from any hitherto know^n to us, and which will prove a great 
acr[uisition to our gardens. It was discovered by Dr. Wright in Texas, and has been distributed among the very 
interesting dried collections of that gentleman, without any name, by Dr. Engelmann. Root perennial (?) Stem erect, 
including the panicle a foot and a half or two feet high, terete, branching from the base, and there rather woody, 
purplish-brown and scarred from the fallen leaves, the rest glaucous, and bearing distant pairs of opposite very glaucous 
leaves, few in number, spathulate, that is oblong or obovate^ entire, tapering into a stalk, all except the uppermost pair 
at the base of the panicle, which are ovate, oblong, quite sessile, truncated or even cordate at the base. From above 
these the elongated panicle arises, a foot or more long, bearing several pairs of small ovate bracteas, from the axil of each 
of which is seen a two-flowered peduncle, with a smaU ovate bracteole at the base of each pedicel. Flower drooping. 
Calyx with minute, glandular hairs, shortly carapanulate, the five acute entire segments spreading. Corolla deep rich 
rose-colour, slightly downy, the tube about an inch long, ventricose on the underside towards the mouth. Limb an inch 
broad, spreading horizontally, cut to the base into five nearly equal rotundate lobes. Stamens included. Filaments 
quite glabrous, flexuose. It appears to grow and flower freely, but we are not yet certain whether it is quite hardy. 
Like other species of the genus, it will probably be found to succeed best if a stock be kept in pots under a frame in 
winter, and planted out in the open ground in spring. It is increased by seeds, which it produces readily. — Bot, Mag., 
t 4601. 
