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pistil, although their upper halves, as well as the styles, are entirely distinct. And so, in lilce manner, when tlie fruit is 
ripe, it becomes a hard capsule, the thick bony lobes of whicii separate freely at the upper half, but not at the lower 
without violence. In our gardens the plant proves to be about as hardy as an Escallonia, but not more so. It remains 
in flower for a month or six weeks after the beginning of July. In its native country it forms an evergreen slender-growing 
shrub, twelve to fifteen feet high, near the natural bridge called Puente de Dios, 45 miles N.E. of Real del Monte, at an 
elevation of 6500 feet above the sea. It also occurs sparingly neai - . - - 
always preferring a dry chalky soil.— ^of. Register, vol. xxx., t. 27. 
426. Allamanda neriifolia, of Gardens. A fine-looking stove plant with large yellow flowers 
the origin of which is unknowji. Belongs to 
Dogbanes. Introduced by Lucombe and Co. 
Mowers in June. 
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Its habit is extremely different from that of any de- 
scribed species, as is the form of the corolla, with its 
singularly short contracted base of the tube, swollen and 
angled at the base, and the very elongated upper portion : 
the colour is a deep almost golden yellow, and it is 
strealied with orange. " The plant, from which the speci- 
men was cut, is now only three feet high. It commenced 
flowering when but eighteen inches high. The first and 
largest cluster consisted of thirty finely expanded flowers. 
An evergreen shrub, with copious and handsome foliage 
everywhere glabrous. Leaves oblong, on short petioles, 
acuminated, deep green above, pale and reticulated 
beneath. Panicle of many flowers, in reality terminal, 
but, by and by, lateral from innovations or young shoots 
which again teruiiuate with clusters of flowers. Calyx of 
five, ovato-lanceolate, spreading lobes. Corolla smaller 
than in A, Schottii or A, Auhletiiy but deeper-coloured 
than either, and elegantly streaked with orange. In 
shape it is quite different from both, the lower and con- 
tracted portion of the tube being very short, swollen, and 
angled at the base, the rest of the tube or faux is beat at 
an angle and much elongated, between funnel-shaped and 
campanulate : the lobes are rounded, acute, spreading. 
Stamens and pistils quite iucluded. — Bot Mag.^ t. 4594. 
427. Epidendutjm volutum. A hothouse 
epiphyte from Central America. Flowers greenish 
white. Introduced by G. U. Skinner, Esq., in 
]849. (Fig. 215.) 
Epidendrum (Osmophytum) volutum ; caule tereti 
membranaceo-vaginato apice 3-phyllo, foliis lineari-ob- 
longis pergameneis ineequalibus, racemo sessili stricto 
flexuoso bracteis magnis glumaceiij distantibus pedunculis 
longioribus, sepalis petalisque llnearibus revolutis acqua- 
libus acutis, labello subrotundo-ovato subcordato decurvo 
leviter trilobo cuspidato callis 2 ad basin plicisque tribus 
obsoletis. 
This very distinct species of Epidendrum flowered last 
summer in the garden of the Horticultu;'al Society, where 
it was received from Mr, Skinner. Like many of the 
Osmophytes, as the section of Epidendrum to which it 
belongs is called, the stem is merely terete, and not swollen 
into a pseudobulb. The flowers are greenish white, and of no beauty. It is very easily known by the n-reat alternate 
paleaceous bi-acts, planted on a somewhat zigzag rachis, and reaching nearly to the middle of the foot-stalk and ovary 
of each flower. 
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