11 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
tusks. It b difficult to imagine a flower with a more uninviting appearance. As to the fragrance attributed to it, we 
l>craived nothing more than a sickly or at least by no means agreeable odour. When compared with a Stephanote, or a 
Bctuumutift, it shrinks into insignificancy notwithstanding the large size of the flowers. The following account of its 
habits is given in the Botanical Magazine, U 4466 : — "This handsome, climbing, shrubby plant, requires to be grown in 
warm and moist hothouse. It is of free growth, and being a smooth clean-leaved plant, not subject to insects, is well 
adapted for a trellis, or to train up a pillar or rafter ; and it will also form a bushy plant grown in a pot, if supported 
by a wire trellis, or by neat stakes. Good fresh loam with a little leaf mould will suit it. As it is a fast grower, it 
requires water freely during summtr ; but care must be taken that the soil does not become stagnant. It is propagated 
by cuttings, which strike root readily when placed under a bell-glass, and the pot plunged in bottom heat. It appears to 
be a shy flowerer ; for although we have known it in cultivation for several years, we have not heard of its producing 
flowers, except in the collection above mentioned." 
105. Pkntstemon azuuki s. Ben f ham. 
lalifornia. Flowers 
bright blue, vcfy handsome. Belongs to the order of Linariads (Scrqp/tulariacete). Introduced by 
the Horticul |] Society. 
A siu th, glaucous, erect perennial, about 2 feet high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, quite entire upon the stem, but 
near the root oblong and slightly heart-shaped at the base. Flowering racemes about a foot long or rather less, slightly 
downy, with one short peduncle in the axil of each opposite bract, bearing from 1 to 2 flowers. The latter are rather 
more than an inch long, clear violet blue, much deeper in the limb than on the tube. Tins hardy perennial is stated by 
Mr. Rentham to have been gathered in the dry river beds of the Valley of the Sacramento. Hartweg wrote on his seed 
a mountain plant. It is very handsome as a border flower, but as its narrow foliage is not good, it is 
was 
best grown 
Ilort. 
106. Begonia cinxabarixa. Hooker. 
greenhorn 
. large nodding scarlet flowers. Introduced by Messrs. Henderson of Pine- Apple Place. 
Extremely handsome ; the contrast between the green stem and darker green leaves, with the deep bright red of 
the long and stout peduncles and stipules, together with the red or rather deep large cinnabar-coloured flowers, 
is very striking:, and renders this the most desirable of all the species for cultivation : add to which, it blooms very 
fredy in an ordinary stove (I suspect it would do so in a greenhouse) and continues long in flower. Stem erect 
but zigzag stout, succulent, pale green, slightly downy, aa are the leaves and petioles. Leaves on rather short* 
stout, terete, green petioles, from four to six or seven inches long, obliquely ovate, (the young ones much plaited 
and edged with red,) lobed at the margin and doubly serrated, the minute teeth red. Stipules ovate, membranaceous, 
acuminate, red. Peduncles a span and more long, rather stout, terete, deep and bright red, bearing a panicle of six 
large han pes flowers, which as well as the ovaries and pedicels and ovate bracts are rather pale red or deep 
cinnamon colour. The ultimate pedicels are ternate, drooping, of which the central flower is male, the lateral ones 
female.— Bota ideal Magazine, t. 4483. 
The interior of the ovary not being described we are uncertain whether this is a true Begonia or not. 
107. Trope dioi lindenii. landley, 
all 
the lon--t uled Lad/s-slipper. Native of New Grenada. Introduced by Linden. Flowered in May 
with If, Pescatore. 
This, which is the most remarkable of the terrestrial orchids vet known, is thus described in the Orchtdaceas 
mce: I his smgu 
part of the Cos 
orange. Petals purple, orange at the base. The 
h overlooks the vast forests at the bottom of the Lake of Maracaybo, and situated on 
mart, at the height of 8500 feet. Sepals oval-lanceolate, pale yellow, streaked with 
•iiameter. Leaves thick and fleshy ; June 1843. The habit of this curious plant is exactly that of Cypripedium insigne. 
I he eaves ar i foot long, blunt, unequally two-toothed at the point, shining, spotless, and longer than the downy scape, 
ine bracts are two, of which the exterior i« «mth., on „ a „ a u.._. _ .__ _ , , . » .u„„ u. A i- n *i** 
bracts are two, of which the exterior is spathaceous, compressed, blunt, coriaceous 
edunele is six inches bag, downy 
are united intn nnA #\f ♦!»« o«m<* a 
narrow tail, and are 
same form, but hrna 
The upper sepal is ovate-lanceolate, and four inches long ; the 
er. The petals are linear-lanceolate, extended into a long, 
f 
The lip is of exactly the 
s. Pesc 
Paris. 
■^ v«mt » naa now produced two flowers with him, in his great collection at the Uftateau 
The sepals are white streaked with green, and more than 34 inches long ; the petals and 
ety at the base, white HtrraL-pd mM. *__ . *v_ i.„:i„ i .i i c «,:„,. Udc 
the colour of wine lees. 
