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for the emission of the several flowers, within which they expand in succession, and are themselves bracteated 
with ovate or lanceolate acuminated and serrated bracteoles. Each flower, when fully open, is nearly as long as the 
set bracteas, and shortly pedicellate. Calyx a little Pto than the tube of the corolla, white be below, epe 
above, and retieulated with white, deeply cut into five segments, of which four are lanceolate, serrated finely 
uminated, the fifth free to the very base, and bent down, as it were, below, by the Besitos of the spur, má this 
is subulate, very narrow. Corolla large, white, the tube dilated upwards, below on one side extended into a short, 
within the tube of the corolla; filaments subulate, didynamous, curved over the pistil. Anther subglobose. Ovary 
ovate, slightly pubescent, with a oe fleshy hypogynous gland on one side. Style thickened, a little curved. Stigma 
slightly dilated.— Bot. Mag., t 
620. Loprzia ER Planchon. (aliàs Jehlia fuchsioides Hort.) A showy half-hardy 
perennial Flowers deep rose. Native of Guatemala. Belongs to Onagrads. (Fig. 302.) 
'This is a soft smooth pale e shrub, with a fleshy tuberous root, like some Fuchsias. The leaves are stalked, 
almost wholly smooth, oblong-la 
ceolate, acuminate, narrowe 
base they are furnished with a pair 
of red pyramidal short glands. The 
flowers stand on long slender stalks, 
singly in the axils of leaves, are 
employed, but with some doubt, is 
that under which M. Planchon "" 
given it in the Flore des 
but it seems impossible "ranis it ean 
be the plant which sein 
first described as a macro- 
phylla, in the Plante انس ممت‎ 
a shrub with downy leaves and 
species in 
Society's Garden, from Mr. TAE but, not having flowered, cannot at present be canna Sis James 
accumulate for the satisfactory settlement of this question the name employed by M. Planchon r stan 
unchanged. A greenhouse soft-wooded shrub, growing freely in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf-mould, and requiring 
the same éréatzent asa Fuchsia. It is increased by cuttings put in sand under a bell-glass, and flowers cem ead 
and spring. It is likely to be valuable as a winter flowering plant, notwithstanding that it is coarse in foliage an it. 
— Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii. 
621. MYRICA catrrornica. Chamisso and Schlechtendahl. A handsome hardy evergreen shrub. 
