148 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA, 
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It amt Mexico, where it was discovered by M. Deppe, who i ti ting regi 
as a Botanist. In our stoves it has flowered in the months af J August and SER — Bot, Mag. t. t. 3050. 
e ossa part of these beautiful € are ares of elevated situations and dislike a high temperature. They will be 
found to thrive best out of doors in this country in summer time, and will endure the winter if planted pretty deep in 
light soil and covered over with leaves in és cold season, especially if any sloped heading be laid on to throw off the wet. 
Even es depen C in the greenhouse keeps its leaves through the winter, will succeed with that treatment.— Herbert. 
Amaryllid. p 
625. Tacsonta SANGUINEA. De Candolle. (aliàs Passiflora sanguinea Smith; alias P. diversifolia 
of Nurseries; aliàs P. quadriglandulosa Meyer; aliàs Tacsonia quadriglandulosa, T. quadridentata (?) 
et T. pubescens (?) De Candolle, according to Hooker.) A very fine hothouse creeper, with large 
scarlet flowers. Native of Trinidad. Blossoms in July. Introduced by Messrs. Low and 
E IM E the Passiflora sanguinea of Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, ع‎ only by that description known 
to De Candolle, who was induced to refer the species, in its present genus, to the section Zutacsonia ; and thus, ipee 
from "does Dijoun West Indian species, T. quadriglandulosa, T. quadridentata, and T. pubescens, placed i in the secti 
» pM eoe ” These three, though very briefly characterised by De Candolle, one from Guiana (whence we 
his species), and the two others from the “ West Indies," derived from the Banksian Herbarium, and 
Very probably rom Trinidad, appear to us to be referable to one and the same plant. The very variable nature of the 
leaves on the same or on different individuals will easily account for their being supposed distinct. Mr. Low observes 
that the species ki a free flowerer, and will evidently make a first-rate plant for a conservatory, as it does not seem to 
require much heat, and is easy of cultivation, A climber, with terete branches, and leaves which are extremely variable 
on the same or on different plants, sometimes ovate or oblongo-ovate, acute, simple ; sometimes cordate and deeply 
three-lobed, with the lobes ovate, acute; the margins everywhere remarkable for being more or , and cut 
into large but unequal teeth, penninerved, the underside strongly reticulated with prominent nerves 8, sometimes downy 
and een, whereas the upper side is بس‎ glabrous and dark green. Petioles about half an isch long, glandular 
at the base, and there are sometimes glands in the sinuosities of the leaves. Peduncle solitary, single-flowered, longer 
than the petiole, furnished below the apex iih a small three-leaved downy involucre : the leaflets from a broad base, 
form a five-furrowed, rather short, greenish tube, very obtuse at the base. Petals five, as long, mi of ip same shape, as 
the sepals, equally spreading, and deep rose-red on both sides. Crown or nectary double, short: inner consisting of & 
white membrane, with يا‎ 000 erect, red rays; outer of a circular row of numerous Nan eau white, 
banded and tipped with red: e lesser Apoc ts, and very short, are found between the outer and inner corona 
Column three or four times as uid ng as the crown, greenish, spotted with red, as are the short recurved filaments 
Anthers green. Ovary oval. Styles clavate, dem red ; stigmas green.— Bot. Mag., t. 4674. 
626. VANDA LONGIFOLIA. Lindley. An unimportant hothouse epiphyte, with yellow flowers. 
Native of the East Indies. Introduced by the Court of Directors of the East India Company. 
This is a very fine-looking plant when not in flower, with dark green distichous leathery wavy leaves, as much as a 
foot and a half long and two Midi wide, obliquely rounded at the end. Its habit is almost that of Angracum eburneum. 
Very thick greyish-green roots protrude from its stem, and have a tendency to branch wherever the first point is injured. 
But the flowers are insignificant, very much like those of Vanda multiflora i in form and colour, except that they are paler ; 
they, however, have a pleasant perfume. These flowers appear in a corymb at the end of a short stiff ascending peduncle 
not one quarter the length of the leaves ; they are very fleshy, and are banded with red upon a dull yellow ground ; the 
lip is white. Inside the pouch of the lip are numerous yellowish hairs, concealing an erect fleshy plate, which partially 
divides the hollow of the lip into two halves, It is not gie heater for the flowers, but the foliage is handsome, and 
serves to set off other Orchids,—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vi 
627. CrAworHUs verrucosus. Nuttall. A very,valuable hardy evergreen shrub. Native of 
California. Flowers light blue, in June. Belongs to Rhamnads. Introduced by the Horticultural 
Society as “a shrub eight feet high, growing on the Santa Cruz mountains.” 
This proves to be a hardy evergreen of the best kind. It forms already a large bush, and will aera paces 8 
tree with long stiff rod-like downy branches, covered in winter with multitudes of large oblong or roundish brown buds. 
Pet leaves are opposite, roundish oblong, iei slightly notched or entire at the end, scarcely an inch long at the Is 
flat, deep green, shining, with grey hairy p its distributed over all the under surface. Occasionally, when the plant is 
young, they are coarsely toothed, as is represented in the Botanical Magazine ; but that is an exceptional state. 
