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GLEANINGS AND OEIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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nerved and reticulated, the nerves very prominent beneath ; above, many of the leaves are blotched with brown and 
paler green. Peduncles axillary, clustered, single-flowered, bracteated, shorter than the calyx. Bracteas linear acu 
minate. Calyx deeply five-pai^tite, the segments lanceolate, acuminate, inciso-serrate, much shorter than the corolla 
Corolla hirsute, large, white ; the tube elongated, infundibuUform, nmning down at the base into a blunt spur : limb 
of five spreading, rounded lobes, obscurely crenated at the margiu. A native of tropical America, and, like its allies 
of a succulent, decumbent habit. 
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Orchids, A mixture of light peat-soil and leaf-mould suits it. The pot or pan must be well drained ; and during winter 
an excess of moisture must be guarded against. It increases readily from cuttings, which root quickly if placed in a warna 
'BoL Mag., t. 4611. 
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Martiana. link 8f Otto. A tuberous greenhouse plant, with rich 
rose- 
coloured floAvers. Native 
Occasionally only we find this pretty plant among coUecti 
Garden of Berlin, and published by Link & Otto, from whom 
we borrow the following memorandum and the annexed cut : 
** The stem is branching, round, green, from three to four 
feet high. The long side of the leaf is nearly three inches long, 
and from one to two inches broad ; the short side is scarcely 
; the upper surface is dark green, 
The teeth sometimes have a 
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(Fig. 227.) 
It was first procured for the Royal 
one inch in length or breadth 
the lower paler and shining. 
The panicle 
short point in front ; the petiole is round ; the panicle short 
and bears but few flowers. From the axils of the leaves grow 
small bulbs. The male flowers have four red petals, of which 
the larger are six lines in length and breadth, and the shorter 
from three to four hnes long, and scarcely two broad. The 
female flowers have five petals of very unequal size. The seed 
vessel is furnished with three wings, of which two are narrow 
and one broadish ; the upper one being obtuse* This species is 
closely allied to Begonia incamata^ but the leaves are differently 
cut at their edges, and quite smooth without cili£e» 
also has fewer flowers. The tubers of this plant ..v,.^ „.„. ^ 
us from Mexico by M. Deppe. Its beautiful flowers last from 
July till September. Like all Begonias it hkes a light soil of 
vegetable mould and loam mixed with river-sand ; it may be 
kept in summer in a protected place in the open au-, or in an 
open greenhouse. In autumn the plant dies down, and the 
tuber alone remains behind, which should be kept during 
winter in a temperature of from 43° to 50'' Fahr. in a 
house until the spring, when it should be planted out in a 
hotbed, where it will soon strike root and flower. The plant 
may be propagated m various ways': 1st, by seeds sown in 
pots ; 2nd, by cuttings, which easily take root ; 3rd, by 
dividing the root ; and lastly, by means of the little tubers in 
the axils of the leaves. These fall when the branches die, and 
may be kept dimng the winter in dry earth, and be in spring 
pLiced in a hotbed, where they soon take root and come up. 
— Unh d: Otto^ Icones^ no. 25, 
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449. Stenanthium peigidum. Ki 
'atrum frigidum Cha 
(alius 
A brown-flowered. 
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half-hardy, herbaceous plant, belon^-ng to the Order of Melanths. Native of Mexico, where it 
IS called Cebadilla de tierra fria. 
is reraiabi?frrTi1 f ff^'lr ^"^ P'"°'' ^^^^ ^^^^ '^^ ^ Tuberose in appearance before it comes into blossom. Tt 
rXfv stem ab-t ^^^ "'ff-^'''' f "" '' ''' ^^^^'^^^ ^^^^ -PP^^" - ^^ooping panicled leafy racemes at the top 
1 name tnder who? T ' Tu """'' "'T^' *^* ''"^'^'^ ^ '^'^ P'-^' -"«-'«'" '^ P«^««"°"« a^'^'ities. From 
*baZs eds o c t /'"* ^r'. ''' ^'- ""^"^^ '' -"^y fee supposed to furnish a part of the venomous 
nhaliSrof Mouro T' 7 '''"^ ^'"^^'"'^ '^ P^"^?^^^^" ^'- ^'^'"^^ ^^^ (^'— ' -L iv., p. 226,) that the 
mhab.tants of Mount Omaba, .here it grows wDd, know it to be dangerous to the horses that bite itfand in another 
