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37. Echites peltata. Vellozo. A fine climbing stove plant of the order of Doi-banes, 
{Apocynacea), imported from Brazil by Mons. H. Galeotti, and flowered with Iff. Van Houtte of 
Ghent. Leaves large, thick, massive. Flowers large, bright yellow, clustered. (Kg. 11.) 
• A native of hedges near Rio Janeiro, where it grows to a considerable length. Leaves broad, rounded at the end, 
but with a point there, when young, covered with rusty down ; when full grown, 5 to 6 inches long, and 3£ to 7', broad! 
The flowers grow in clusters of six or eight, with short downy stalks. The corolla, which is a clear bright— bat not 
dark— yellow, is rather more than 2 inches long, twice contracted in the tube, and with five very much imbricated, broad 
somewhat crisp segments ; the tube is white (but is coloured yellow in the plate). It requires a damp stove, strong loam 
mixed with white sand, and a thorough drainage.— Fan HoutteS Flore, t. 390. 
38. Clematis ^indivisa; variety lobata, Hooker. A beautiful greenhouse climbing plant from 
Xew Zealand. 
pure 
Flowers in April. (Fig. 12.) 
In its native country it quite festoons the trees with its dense foliage and large panicles of flowers. A climber, with 
ternate leaves, and firm, leathery leaflets, slightly downy, and coarsely lobed, or almost pinnatifid. The panicles are 
often a foot long ; those in gardens have only hitherto produced small flowers, which measure full 2\ inches across : 
whether fragrant or not is not stated.— Botanical Magazine, t, 4398. 
GItANDIt 
Besfi 
A line 
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flowers. In the French Gardens, flowers from July to October. (Fig. 13.) 
A glaucous erect annual, branching upwards. Ordinary leaves narrow, obtuse, closely packed ; those of the stem 
ovate, acute, or acuminate, with some delicate fringes on the edge. Flowers of 
the colour of Portulaca Gilliesii, more than an inch across, with five whitisl 
spaces in the eye. It flowers abundantly and in succession, and, being a dwarf 
plant, it answers remarkably well for bor- 
ders. — Bevue Horticolc, vol ii., p 404. 
EltlOCNEMA M ARMOllATUM . 
Naudin. A soft, herbaceous, stem- 
less, stove-plant, from Brazil, belong- 
Melastomads. Leaves 
striped with white, 
rose-coloured, produced with 
Morel of Paris. (Fig. 14). 
Possibly only an annual. 
dliOFt, fleshy, resembling a tuber- 
Stem very 
Leaves 
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