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GLKANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
A line hot -house Gi nmettm plant, with long whorled shaggy racemes of scarlet spotted flowers. 
Native of Panama. Blossoms in October at Kew. 
A very handsome, copious-flowering, and bright coloured species, approaching nearest to 6. longifolia, but differing 
much in the form of the leaves and in the limb of the corolla. It was discovered by Mr. Seeman, at Panama Stem 
two feet or more high, simple, rather stout below, nearly terete, villous with spreading hairs, as is almost every part of 
the plant. Leaves opposite and ternate, the lower ones large, broadly ovate, or sub-obovate, on rather long petioles 
coarsely serrate, acute, rather than acuminate ; upper ones gradually smaller and more tapering to a point, all obtuse 
at the base. From the whorls of the upper floral leaves, the hairy peduncles appear fasciculato-verticillate, longer than 
the petioles, and the uppermost ones longer even than the leaves, single-flowered. Calyx shallow, cup-shaped with five 
""" ar > ftcute ' ^reading lobes. Corolla very villous, bright brick red, a little inclined to orange. Tube nearly 
nearly regv 
segments 
ltd, and clothed with glandular ha.rs. Ovary roundish ovate, very villous, having at the base four conspicuous, hypo- 
irvnoilS. broad Hands, nf whinK r.r, a \ \,\ GA m u:_ _- _* r^ i - _ r ' JV 
form 
gynous, broad glands, of which one is bifid. r . m io wmmKW iix wic gwgu w a 
round tuber, or consists of a number of fleshy scales, cora^tf^ therefore" nrt^ZZ 
an underground sureulose stem. The rhizome of this species belongs to the latter form, resembling that of Gloxinia and 
and rami inner iha onmn 1-:*wl -r A x . i. -ii i • . . „ .. . ° 
menes, 
It will thrive in a mixture of light loam and leaf mould ; and, in 
warm 
fhov i,« Wft ^«j . L " ttim ow*^, taKiii^ caitj not io sn ve mucn water tin 
to ti J 71h » » Pr ° gre8S m i g rowth ' If > duri «g the ^mmer, they happen to be placed in a position fully exposed 
spoln ofnniT T,? * ?"** *"*"* ** "^ of the ^ -botanical Magazine, t. 4504. The plant here 
fou Zl of i , T G f v 0esnena Seemunni > is onIv a well-grown specimen of the toem breviflora, described in the 
muc tin f IZTi SOa 1*' V ° L *• P - 165 ' (Apri1 ' 1848< ) U is one of the Isolome « -hich M. Decaisne has, with 
are <7 Zl/ t ° / 2^ °i a genU9 ' aS had Regd ' before him ' under the name of Kohlerm. Other Isolomes, 
W-.W??rf r" ' ? 5 O-n****,]**. Mac,., I 4217 , <**#*«, 8, t. 4342 ; Q. mollis ; 6. ladantha, 
3rd S" vol.' ii , 465 ' ******* & VeHicillata > Cav " ; aa M ' Decaisne "^ pointed out in the Revue Hortkoh, 
Cleuodexdro>- Bethuneaxum. Lowe. A fine stove Yerbenaceous shrub 
Kampft 
and Co. A native of Borneo. 
1 lowers crimson, in large panicles, produced in September, 1849, with Lucomb 
andtaeeful ill 7J a <?*?"& beautiful in its ^ 5 peduncles, pedicels, bracts, calyx, corolla, the very long 
ba^ and ttl r ' f T * t"^ CrimS ° n ' While the tW0 side lobes of *> —Ua have a purple spot near the 
brotnt tt and Tev^ 1 / T* "?** *"* SPOt ' The SpedeS haS been named after ^ Betbune > RN ' who 
oiougnt it and several other fine plants from Borneo. When its " ' ' 
flowering 
AlthoiK.li in M. „.♦• I J . Iema,n ' ana tne Jatter contain each a four-seeded berry of the richest blue colour. 
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103. Tabern^montaxa loxgiploili. Bent ham. 
/A n _ , .... — «— « ^^« ( «« OT . A stove shrub of the order of Dogbam 
A L • ™ € ri: ."" T ng White fragrant flowers and a green tube. Blossomed with Lucombe and Co. 
A native of Sierra Leone. 
has 
diffusinz a delioln,.. »ZT7 "'" i " c uai " green lom S e > a «d remarkably large white or pale cream-coloured flowers, 
speaklof the thTb ^ v7 I F^' ^^ that ° f dOTes " Dr " Vo ^ who ^nJ the plant at Sierra Leone, 
with a short point and i andSOme ' Wlth the ^P^ of a Citrus, and yielding a milky juice. Leaves elliptical, large, 
erect stout Loh L a * * 1 ?* dllated petble ' the veins diverging almost horizontally from the mid-rib. Peduncles 
ect, stout, each bearmg about three lar^e whit. fl „„ r„,..„ ^1 ^. > _ * , at th - r base 5s a circle of 
minute glandular scales, 
waved or reflexed ligulate lobes^ 
Corolla with the tube twisted, 4 inches in length, swollen below the middle ; limb of five 
It will thrive in a mixture of loam and peat son, 
but care should 
if placed so as to hav th h c c requires a warm stove. It will thrive in a mixture of loam and peat son, 
be taken that at n „ t™ / benefit „ of bo "om-heat, and watered and syringed freely during the summer ; but care should 
■ncculent roots w tt {eS? J Cml]y durin S ite ^^^ of ««0 the mould becomes saturated, for the soft and slightly 
Magazine t 4484 kept fa t0 ° Wet a ste te, while the plant indicates a cessation of giwth.-Botankal 
