40 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
smaller petals and the other parts of the flower. When opened, ne appear to be carinate, and exhibit the remarkable 
fleshy protuberance peculiar to the genus, at the base of each, and which in this species is about the length of the ape 
curved, deep green. The inner petals are curiously formed, being fiddle-shaped, broadest near the point, which is obtus 
and a little elongated, and supported for half their length by a small slender thread eohering to the lower part of i 
stamens, and attached at the base opposite the "tomes Stamens closely surrounding the style ; the lower half of each is 
slightly angular and fleshy, with an uneven surface ; the upper part is capillary, bearing the anthers on the top. Style 
long, slender, and compressed, pale green, with a comparatively br broad and thin an desea point.” The fruit is an oblong, 
parietal placentæ. Its fleshy indehiscent fruit constitutes the generic peculiarity by which it is separated from Dielytra. 
504. IwPATIENS FASCICULATA. Lamarck. (alias Balsamina fasciculata De Cand.; alias 
Impatiens setacea Colebrooke; alias I. heterophylla Wallich; aliàs Balsamina heterophylla 
Don.) A neat succulent tender annual, with solitary axillary pale flesh-coloured flowers. Native of 
Ceylon. 
this pretty Balsam were sent by Mr. Thwaites, from the hilly country of Ceylon, to the Royal Gardens of 
Kew, hé the plants blossomed in the summer of 1851. The name fasciculata is not & very rr a one ; for 
though some of our wild specimens have the peduncles in Mom pairs, other 
specimens are not, and our tipi plants had them invariab ly solitary i in each axil, The | genus or family is described 
as being destitute of stipules ; but in the present species, ا‎ as far as I am aware by authors, yet fi 
Dr. Wight's artist, is a يست‎ vs deflexed and very conspicuous spur at the base of each side of the leaf and ا‎ 
with the stem, which I can look upon in no other light LEM asa stipule. The plant is found in a great part of the 
eontinent of India, as well as in Ceylon, MN ME over the Peninsula in marshy grounds, decorating them, as 
Dr. Wight says, with its large showy pink flowers. Colebrooke gathered it in Sylhet; Mr. Griffith in Khasiya ; e 
Drs. Hooker and Thomson along the whole Himalayan range. t, as Impatien 
cornigera ; and being of the same nature, will be difficult to retain as a garden plant, otherwise than by yearly Xr 
fresh seeds fr from Ceylon.— Bot. Mag., t. 4631. 
505. PrrcArmRNIA FUNKIANA. Dietrich. (alias Puya Funkiana Linden.) A charming hothouse 
perennial, with yellow and white spikes of flowers. Belongs to Bromeliads. Inhabits the Andes 
of Merida. 
P. caule folioso tenué tomentoso, foliis elongato-1 latis int labri vaginis tenué tomentosis, 
racemo terminali pyramidato, bracteis ovatis acuminatis calycem subæquantibus, م‎ rectis . apice acutis subrecurvatis 
basi nudis, T longitudine petalo orum, 
This beautiful plant is now in flower in the garden of M. Nauen, of Berlin. Its blossoms are white and surrounded 
by a calyx and wee of a yellow colour ; it is cultivated in M. Linden’s garden, in Brussels, under the name of Puya 
Funkiana, and is to be found under the D name in his catalogue (No. 5, 1850). A closer examination, however, 
has shown that the plant is not a Puya, but a Pitcairnia, for the former has the ovary free and not joined to the calyx, 
is not required, as the plant grows vigorously on the shelves of a hothouse. The plant is very handsome, and well 
worthy of notice. Its price is, according to M. J. Linden's catalogue, fifteen franes.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., Oct. 25, 1851. 
506, Canna WARCZEWICZI. Dietrich. A handsome hothouse perennial, belonging to the 
Order of Marants. Flowers scarlet. Native of Central America. Introduced by M. Von 
Warczewicz. 
C. foliis ovatis vel ovato-oblongis cuspidato-acuminatis 
glabris margine cauleque coloratis, germine subgloboso 
ogi road calycis phyllis lanceolatis obtusis coloratis rore glauco adspersis, labio s superiore corollse limbi 
Spinn partito, laciniis obverse lanceolatis obtusis, labello revoluto anguste spathulato obtuso apice emarginato, 
i Fonds one of the many plants — by M. Von Warezewiez, who brought its seeds with him from Central 
neo no Specimens in پا‎ iod may be seen in several gardens, as, for e example, in those belonging to M. Mathieu, 
Dannenberger, of Berlin. There is no doubt that it isa new and hitherto undescribed plant. It is very 
