160 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
solitariis longis laxifloris, floribus nutantibus — — pedicellis pollicaribus basi braeteá parva lineari 
stipatis, calycis laciniis linearibus integris stellatim patentibus tubum o conicum 2-3-pló superantibus, corolle laciniis 
linearibus tubi angusti dimidium excedentibus, Rum Res f re nl 2 apice pilis liberis barbatis.— Planch 
A decidedly petis habit, leaves with a twisted stalk and a long raceme of pendulous flowers, remarks M. Pied, 
distinguish this from all the other Siphocampyls in cultivation. Mr. Linden, who introduced it to Europe, says that it 
was discovered by his collectors, Messrs. Funck and Schlim, several years ago, near Galipan, in the province of Caraccas, 
at the height of 5000 feet above the sea. Mr. Van Houtte adds that, like many other climbers, this will not flower till it 
has arrived at a considerable size ; a fault, however, c — by the great quantity of flowers that follow the age of 
barre It should be planted out in a warm conservatory, in a rich soil, and its stems trained toa trellis. It strikes 
from patting very unwillingly ; - it may be i to be on sale by March, 1853.— Flore des Serres. 
638. SENECIO CONCOLOR. De Candolle. A handsome greenhouse herbaceous plant. Native 
of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers rich purple. Belongs to Composites. Introduced by 
Sir Charles Hulse, who received the seeds from Colonel G. Buller 
We have little doubt that this fine showy perennial is that which De Candolle meant by his S. concolor, from Tulbagh 
and the Kat River mountains, although in cultivation it scarcely produces any of the hairs to which his specific character 
points. It is evidently a near relation of the old Senecio speciosus. The root-leaves are spathulate, lanceolate, long- 
sessile, and slightly stem-clasping and downy at the edges ; all are more or less incised. The stem grows about two feet 
high, and forms an open corymb scantily clothed with foliage. The flower-heads have a rich purple colour throughout, 
with a diameter of nearly two inches, most of which belongs to the rich purple ray. It requires to be treated like Cape 
Pelargoniums, grows freely in a mixture of loam, peat, and leaf mould, and is increased from seeds. It is a very 
handsome sere in the way of a * Cineraria," and may prove uini for bedding out during the summer. Flowers 
in August and September.— Journ. of Hort. Koc., vol. vii. 
639. Hoya rRATERNA. Blwme. A hothouse climbing plant from Java. Flowers buff-coloured. 
Belongs to Asclepiads. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch. 
A very fine new and very distinct species of Hoya, first detected in Java by Blume, and since by Mr. Thomas Lobb, 
and sent by him to his employer Mr. Veitch, in whose stove at Exeter it has grown very vigorously, and yielded its very 
coloured figure is taken from a portion of the plant yielding smaller foliage ; but these leaves are remarkable no less | 
ues their great size than they are for their firmness and thickness, and the very indistinct remote D nerves, 
scarcely seen except when the leaf is held between the eye and the light, or when the leaves are dried for the h dise 
then the shrinking of the parenchyma brings the veins more distinctly into view, and shows them to ii pinnated, 
anastomosing, and slender. The petioles and costa beneath are peculiarly thick. The upper side of the corolla, ae 
excepted, is downy, or between silky and velvety, and = a ra اج‎ buff-colour, but five stains or spots are s 
radiating from the centre towards the sinuses, whic ys wet and clamm my, which clamminess appears to be de 
to a flow of honey from beneath each of the leaves of the crown or n dete: and give a rich brown tone of colour to the 
whole umbel of flowers, It was named fraterna T Blume, on account of its affinity to H. coriacea, from which it is 
"bie: etm distinct. A climber, with te stems and branches, rooting near the insertion of the petioles, 
opposite leaves, on rather short but very pe petioles ; varying from six inches to a foot in length, singularly 
thick, and firmly fleshy, subcoriaceous, elliptical, very glabrous and even, the margins recurved, the apex rather acute, 
the base emarginate or subcordate, dark green and glossy shane: pale and opaque bead, het the midrib is very 
broad and prominent ; lateral veins scarcely at all visible except the leaf be held between the eye and the light, when 
they are seen to be pinnated, distant, slender, anastomosing towards the margin. Peduncle much shorter than the 
leaves, moderately stout, thickened at the base, bearing at the apex a dense umbel of rather large, brownish red flowers. 
Sepals five, oval, concave. Corolla rotate, pale buff, with five red brown blotches, five-lobed, the lobes triangular, silky, 
reflexed. Leaflets of the corona pale buff, rotundato-ovate, thick, fleshy, concave above, with a blood-red spot at the 
base, grooved beneath.— Bot. Mag., t. 4684. 
640. ALSTROMERIA PLANTAGINEA. Martius. A very fine herbaceous plant, with rich bell- 
shaped flowers of deep orange, lined with yellow, tipped with green, and spotted with dark brown 
bars. Native of Brazil. Belongs to Amaryllids. Introduced by M. de Jonghe. (Fig. 309.) 
A. plantaginea ; herbacea 1—1} pedalis flore excepto glaberrima, foliis ad apices ramorum sterilium confertis 
ramis fertilibus plus minus inter se approximatis aversis MH (3—4 poll. longis) apice sacl 
i alterá pallidio: 
acutiusculis margine integro pellucido levibus 5— 7-nerviis paginá sursüm spectante lucida leeté viridi 
supremis pseudo-verticillatis inzequalibus pedicellis multd ا‎ umbellà terminali 6—8-florà, pedicellis (3-poll. 
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