GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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dark green above, paler and reticulated beneath. Flow jrs 
in close drooping spikes, of numerous, rather large, deep 
purplish chocolate-coloured flowers. The calyx of &6 
male of six rhombeo-ovate, spreading, fleshy, nearly equal 
sepals. Petals six, spreading, lanceolate, or almost sub- 
ulate, white, mealy, membranaceous. Stamens six, muted 
into a column and bearing six spreading, oblong, slightly 
incurved, apiculated, two-celled anthers, opening at the 
back. A native of woods in the south of Chili, and per- 
fectly hardy. A plant in this garden (Kew) has with- 
stood the cold of the last three winters without injury, 
and Mr. Veitch reports that in his nursery there is 
a specimen 12 feet high, growing against a wall. It is 
a beautiful evergreen creeper, with dark green foliage, 
and well adapted for covering high walls. It is a rapid 
grower, and apparently not particular as to situation ; 
but from its habit, we infer that shady places suit it best. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4501. 
45. Trop^eoloi Dfxkeriaxum. Morit 
A 
downy, handsome, twining, greenhouse perennial, 
with blue, green, and scarlet flowers. Apparently 
very pretty. Introduced from Venezuela 
to the Botanic Garden, Berlin. (Fig. 16.) 
Roots fibrous. Stems grey, downy, climbing and rooting ; with 
blunt, peltate, sinuated ovate leaves. The flowers, which grow singly 
have a scarlet spur 2 inches long, tipped with green; green hairy 
sepals ; five intensely blue, wedge-shaped, toothed, short petals ; and 
stamens of the same colour. It may be grown out of doors in 
summer, or may be kept in a pot and trained like other small 
species of the genus. Propagated by cuttings, or by seeds. Van 
Ifoutte's Flore des Serves, t. 490. A very great acquisition, remarkable 
for the singular intermixture of green, scarlet, and blue in its flowers. 
40. Gonolobus Mautianus. Hooker, {alihs Fischeria Mar- 
tiana, Decalsne.) A Brazilian stove twiner belonging to the 
Asclepiads, with many-flowered umbels of greenish-white flowers 
possessing little beauty. Flowers at Kew in May and June. 
(Kg. 17.) 
Climbing, much branched ; branches densely clothed with spreading 
hairs, which become reddish in drying. Leaves oblong-ovate, hairy on 
both sides, almost velvety, mucronate, cordate, with a deep but closed sinus. 
Flowers in many-flowered umbels with hairy pedicels, white, with a 
deep-green radiating ring at the base ; lobes spreading, ovate-rotun date- 
obtuse, longitudinally plaited in the middle. A soft-wooded plant, of 
rapid and extensive growth, well adapted to cover trellis-work, pillars, 
&c. Where it is required to cover a great space, it should be planted in 
a mixture of loam and peat, about eighteen inches in depth, and well 
drained. It may also be grown in a pot, and -trained up the rafters of 
the house, or on a wire trellis fixed to the pot ; and by occasionally stopping 
the leading shoots it maybe made to flower abundantly. — Bot. Mag. t. 44 7-. 
