GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
997. Gaura LINDHEIMERI. Engelmann. A hardy perennial, with white and pink flowers. 
Native of Texas. Belongs to the Order of Onagrads. (Fig. 292.) 
A branching ‘herbaceous plant, growing from three to four feet high, and producing an abundance of gay white and 
reddish flowers during all the latter part of the year 
long, rod-like, naked except at the extremities where the flowers grow, 
The lower leaves are deeply divided in a pinnatifid or sinuate manner ; 
the upper are lanceolate and slightly toothed, the uppermost of all are 
lower g g when young, à warm reddish brown 
just before expansion. The seed-vessels áre small sessile four-cornered 
nuts. A perennial, growing freely in any good garden soil, and flowering 
m July to Septem- 
ber. It is easily in- 
creased from seeds, 
and is best treated as 
is really a showy al- 
though a straggling plant, and well suited for decorat- 
ing mixed beds of flowers, or the skirts of a plantation 
in the autumn.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol vii. 
| 598. GOETHEA STRICTIFLORA. Hooker. 
An uninteresting hothouse shrub from Brazil, belonging to 
the Natural Order of Malvads. Flowers whitish. 
A very remarkable-looking plant, sent to us by Messrs, Rollison, 
and by Mr. Henderson, St. John's Wood, under the name of Goethea 
cauliflora of Nees von Esenbeck. But it is certain that the plant can 
neither be the G. cauliflora of Nees and Martius, nor his G. semperflorens. Our plant has the 
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leaves. The flowers are very inconspicuous, and quite concealed by the involucre, whose beautiful red-veined bracts, 
looking like a calyx, persist long after the blossoms have passed. Leaves alternate, large, petiolate, ovate, مه‎ broadly 
80, acuminate, penninerved (with three principal nerves from near the base), the upp dentate at the margin. 
Peduncles short, aggregated in the axils of the leaves (and often remaining after the leaves are fallen, above the scars), 
scarcely half an inch long. Involuere of four erect, pale, yellowish-white, cordate bracteas, striated and veined with red, 
including a single flower, whose sti, alone are sometimes protruded beyond the involucre. Calyx nearly white, or 
greenish, cut into five erecto-connivent acuminated lobes. Corolla of five obcordate, veiny, small petals, which are 
