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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
145. Trichosacme lanata. ZuccarinL A woolly climbing Asclepiad from Mexico. Flowers 
small, dark purple, with long tails. Introduced by Messrs. Knight and Perry. (Fig. 71.) 
leaves are white, like a lamb's fleece. The stem is in the same state. 
surface, except the face of the corolla, can be seen. The 
The minute flowers grow in pendulous umbels 
at the end of a woolly reflexed flower-stalk. The singularity of the flower resides in the production of long, weak, 
feathery, purple tails from each lobe of the 
corolla ; not, however, from the apex, as 
Zuccarini supposed. On the contrary, each 
lobe of the corolla is cut into two equal 
triangular teeth, and it is from the right 
hand tooth of each lobe that the tails proceed. 
They spring forth abruptly, wave in the wind 
in the most curious manner, and do not 
separate from the corolla without the appli- 
cation of some force. No doubt they are 
analogous to the tails of Strophanths ; but 
what can they be for ? Messrs. Knight and 
Perry received it from the Imperial Botanic 
Garden, St. Petersburg. 
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146. Calceolaria 
Bent ham . 
PAYOXII. 
A herbaceous species, 
hardy in summer, but requiring pro- 
tection in winter. Flowers yellow. 
Leaves large and coarse. Introduced 
by Lucombe and Co. 
A rare and remarkably large species, ori- 
ginally detected atChincao and Mafia in the 
Andes of Peru, and afterwards discovered 
in the province of Chachapoyas. Messrs. 
Lucombe and Co. say, that when bedded 
out in the summer it makes a very striking 
appearance, with its noble and rather deep 
yellow flowers and ample foliage. Root 
perennial. Stem one and a half to two feet 
and more high, a good deal branched, her- 
bac us, succulent, taper, or but slightly 
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