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GLKAN'INOS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
Loosestrifes (Lythraccac). Flowers crimson or deep purple. Introduced by M. Van Houtte 
(Kg. 60.) 
M. Planchon thinks this diff nt from the C. Llavea. loner 
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Belongs to the 
iOC known in gardens, distinguishing it by its panicled flowers, 
the colour of the anthers, and some other circumstances. It 
seems to be a good bedding plant. Two varieties are figured, 
one with rich crimson, the other with purple flowers. — Flore des 
Serves, 527. 
134, Lisianthus Prixceps. Lindley. A green- 
house shrub, with very long scarlet, yellow and green 
flowers. A native of New Grenada. 
Gentianworts. Introduced by Mr. Linden. (Fig. 61.) 
This must be one of the noblest plants in existence. Its 
long flowers, the size of the accompanying figure, are rich 
scarlet melting into yellow at either end, with an emerald green 
5-lobed limb j they hang in clusters of four from the ends of the drooping twigs, covered 
with firm deep green opposite leaves. According to Mr. Linden, it naturally forms a tufted 
shrul) 9 or 3 feet high, growing at the entrance of the table land of Pamplona at the height 
of 10,000 — 11,000 feet above the sea, Flore des Sevres, t. 557. When we originally pub- 
lished this plant we knew it only from dried specimens. It has, however, lately been 
flowered by Mr. Linden, and is beautifully represented in M. Van Houtte's work. 
135, Parsonsia heterophils. Allan Cunningham, {alias P. albiflora 
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(Fig. 62.) 
Zealand twin in 
A twining evergreen greenhouse plant, flowering abundantly in May and 
June. Stem covered with fine down, pale yellow ; leaves leathery, dull green, 
slightly downy, wavy, very variable in form ; linear-lanceolate, ovate- lanceolate, 
obovate, or even spathulate, often repand, varying in length from 2 to 8 or 4 
inches. These singular diversities in the form of the leaves do not seem to 
be confined to any particular parts of the plant, but appear on any of the 
branches, and all intermingled ; the short spathulate leaves are, however, 
most usual on short lateral shoots. Flowers pale 
-colour, in close 
one-sided naked panicles, rather sweet-scented. Calyx three times as short as 
the corolla. Corolla urceolate, with a revolute 5-cleft border, not more than 
7 
quarter 
tiiis 
Anthers without any tails, but simply sagittate. 
New Zetland! at Hokianga and Wangaroa, in shady woods. M. Raoul, whose 
P. albiflora can scarcely be different, found it on the outskirts of woods at 
Akaroa. It is rather a nice addition to our gi n house climbers, and will 
probably prove hardy in the south of England. For purposes of cultivation 
it is much superior to P. variabilis.— Journ. Ilort. Soc, vol. v. 
136. Parsonsia variabilis. LhuVey. A New Zealand 
twining evergreen shrnb, with white fragrant flowers. Belongs 
to Dogbanes. Introduced with the last. 
A small twining greenhouse plant, very much like P. heterophylla, from 
which it differs in its leaves being shining and much more variable in form, 
the linear ones being far narrower, and often expanded at the very end into a 
circular blade. The flowers are not mm than half the size, and instead of 
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bf j contra«t,Ml at the mouth or urceolate, are # —^ 
also far less hairy, by no means >o numerous or densetv arran 
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►w leaves. It is a very curious thing, but pos- 
its flowers are, however, much sweeter than in P. heterophylla.— /oMrn. Ilort. Soc, vol. 
v. 
