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plant, with large dark-green sinuous leaves and flowers of the most intense blue. There is no English cold that it is 
incapable of supporting, provided it is kept dry ; but the great fleshy roots rot whenever a low temperature is accompanied 
by water in contact with them. We have found the common kind live for many years in sand among stones raised a 
foot or so above the ground, in a south aspect and covered with a hand-glass, which is never removed till dangerous 
frosts are gone. It is, however, very subject to the attack of slugs. According to M. Van Houtte this species produces 
ripe fruit and seed abundantly at Ghent; we never saw the common Mandrake show any tendency that way. See Flore 
des rres, t 457. 
1GOZANTHUS 
Hooker 
purpl 
Belongs to 
the order of 
Bloodroots (Hsemodoracese). Not in cultivation. 
One of the many fine things discovered by Mr. Drummond, during his excursions in the interior to the southwest of 
the Swan River settlement. He could not fail to be struck with the magnificence of this plant, three or four or more 
feet high, growing in masses, and bearing paniculated branches, and copious flowers clothed with dense tomentum of the 
richest Tyrian purple. Seeds have not yet germinated, but the dried specimens retain their form and colour almost 
equally with the living plant, and we are hence able to present an accurate figure to our readers. Its nearest affinity is 
perhaps with the A . fuliginosa, (Bot. Mag. t 429,) but the flowers are very different in shape as well as in colour. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4507. 
Eugenia 
terminal 
Lamarck, (alias Myrtus Dombeyi Sprengel) 
of Brazil. 
(Myrt 
A stove evergreen 
meffi.1 Native 
A small tree, found in the province of Rio de Janeiro, where, we are informed, it is also cultivated and the fruit 
brought to market, and sold under the name of Grumichama. It is handsome in its foliage and in its copious snowy 
flowers, which latter are remarkable for having their origin upon the lower portions of young terminal branches, or, in 
other words, upon partially developed leaf-buds, springing from the axils of opposite scales below the leafy portion. In 
this state the young leaves are deep purple-brown, contrasting prettily 
with the dark green of the old foliage and the pure white of the 
blossoms which are produced in April. Fruit, according to St. Hilaire, 
as large as a cherry, white or red, or black violet-coloured, esculent. 
This is an old inhabitant of the Royal Gardens. Having been kept 
for many years in a small pot it never produced flowers ; but on being 
removed into the Palm-house, and shifted into a large pot, it grew 
vigorously, and in the spring of this year produced a profusion of 
flowers. It is now a handsome Laurel-like bush, six feet high. Light 
loam, mixed with a small quantity of leaf-mould, suits it ; and, as 
it is what may be termed a thirsty plant, it requires to be well 
supplied with water during the spring and summer months.— Bot. 
Mag., t. 4526. 
155. Aspasia lunata. IAndley. A stove epiphyte 
from Brazil, with pale-green speckled 
■with 
fragrant 
flo 
(Kg. 74.) 
curved 
wers. 
crescent-shaped violet spot in the middle of a whitish lip. The sepals 
base 
- , — — In drawings made in Brazil the crescent- 
shaped spot on the lip is represented as being much more distinct than it proves to be in cultivation. 
LUVUNGA 
He 
Limonia 
from the continent of India, with white fragrant flowers. Belongs 
Blossoms in Spring in the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew. (Fig. 75.) 
A stove plant, 
(Aurantiacese). 
^ A delicately fragrant plant from Silhet and Chittagong. Dr. Hamilton called it Luvwnga (from its Sanscrit name, 
"Luvungaluta"). In cultivation, though attaining a height of nearly twenty feet, it hardly deserves to be called scandent. 
Leaves alternate, remote, each with three leaflets. Stalks two to three inches long. Leaflets five to six inches long, 
