46 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
In — to these, others no doubt remain unexamined among South American collections, exclusive of the 
followin 
oubtful Species. 
ll. N, laxiflora Westcott, in the Phytologist, i. e ; perhaps the same as N. aromatica. 
12. N. orbicularis Richard & Galeotti ; a Mexican plant that we have never seen. 
517. Krvera NoroxiawNa. De Candolle. (alias Wulfenia Notoniana Wallich ; alias Glossanthus 
Notoniana Brown ; alias Glossanthus malabarica Klein; alias Glossanthus zeylanica Brown.) 
An annual weedy plant, with deep blue flowers. Native of Ceylon. Belongs to Gesnerads. 
The genus Klugia of Schlechtendahl in Linnea (1833), the same with سمو‎ of Klein (1835) and of Brown, 
was founded on a Mexican plant ; but a congener, if not congeners, are found in India: the present is one of them, 
remarkable for the great obliquity of the base of the leaf, and the brilliant colour of the bine flowers. Our living plants 
were received from Ceylon, through the kindness of our valued friend Mr. Thwaites, of the Botanic Gardens, Peradenia. 
Hence we suspect it may be the Glossanthus zeylanica of Mr. Brown, l.c., without description. It is, however, certainly 
the Wulfenia notoniana of Dr. Wallich, and ee a Glossanthus notoniana of Mr. Brown, and Klugia notoniana 
of De Candolle, whose name we here adopt. It is abundant in the Neilgherry hills, and flowers in the stove in 
September. A soft-stemmed tropical plant, of low dicii habit, and produciug roots from the under side of the 
stem. It is at this time growing and flowering freely in a warm stove, A mixture of light loam and peat-soil suits 2 
and it appears to love moisture ; it is, however, liable to suffer kd an Wie of — = in the — of the hou 
in the winter, and more particularly towards the spring, as by that ti and it is el 
to damp off.— Bot. Mag., t. 4620. 
Ly 
518. ACANTHOSTACHYS STROBILACEA. Klotzsch. (aliàs Hohenbergia strobilacea Schultes.) 
A curious perennial, with very narrow spiny leaves, like the Pine Apple, and a short prickly cone of 
yellow flowers in orange-coloured bracts. Belongs to Bromeliads. Native of Mexico. (Fig. 256.) 
meti to Mr. Otto this comes pee the southern provinces of Brazil, where it was first found by Martius, and 
afterwards by Sello. It flowers in the stove in June and July, in equal parts of sand and decayed vegetable mould. A 
second species is Hohenbergia lentia capitata, also from Brazil. One of the great peculiarities of this genus is 
| its having its ovules in pairs only, and notin crowds on the edges of an axile placenta ; it is ا‎ like 
n: itself. The leaves are very long and narrow, thiek, eurved, prickly, channelled, and seurfy. The scape is 
ong, simple, mealy, and bears at the base of the priekly spike (or cone) a pair of very long channelled leafy riens — 
» Klotzsch, and Otto’s Icones. 
