the stove. 
GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
9.") 
142. Columxea aurantiaca. Decaisne. A climbing Gesnerad, 
da 
mres 
Mr 
(Fig. GS.) 
This must be one of the handsomest of its race, the flowers being 
of the deepest and richest orange colour; the calyx pale yellowish 
green, and the stalk richly spotted with purple at the point It was 
found on the Andes of Merida, in a temperate region, forming a zone 
between 9000 and 10,000 feet of elevation above the sea. Like all 
such things, it grows well upon a lump of nearly rotten wood, which 
I Serves, t. 552. 
148. Arctocalyx 
grad 
l 
Endlicherianus. 
Planchon. A stove Gesnerad, with a shaggy 
brownish-black stem, and long yellow sessile 
flowers. From Mexico. Introduced by M. 
Ybel, of Vienna. (Fig. 69.) 
A remarkable plant said to have been found by 
the traveller Carl Heller, in the forests near Mirador, 
in the province of Vera Cruz, at the height of 2000 
feet above the sea. It has the habit of an Alloplect 
The leaves are fleshy, oval, unequal at the base, doubly 
serrated, and shaggy with long hairs on the veins of 
the under-side. The flowers are represented as 
springing from various parts of the surface of the stem, 
and not from the axils of the leaves exclusively. The 
shaggy calyx is nearly smooth at its upper end and 
glaucous. The corolla is golden yellow, with a 
regularly lacerated 5-lobed limb, streaked inside with 
lines of large crimson spots. — Flore des Serves, 546. 
1 14 . KhODODENDROX JASMINIFLORl M . 
1 looker. A green- 
house shrub, with 
fragrant 
white 
flowers. Native of 
Malacca. Intro- 
duced by Messrs. 
YcitchcVCo. (Fig. 
70.) 
« At the first, and 
truly splendid, Ex- 
hibition of flowers 
at the Chiswick 
Gardens of the pre- 
sent year, few plants excited greater 
attention among the visitors most dis- 
tinguished for taste and judgment, 
than the one here figured. Many ex- 
celled it in splendour ; but the deli- 
cacy of form and colour of the flowers 
(white with a deep pink eye), and pro- 
bably their resemblance to the favour- 
ite Jessamine (some compared them 
to the equally favourite Stephanotis) , 
