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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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160. Siphocampylus orbignyanus. Alpk. Be CamloUe. A Bolivian (?) greenhouse plant, 
with broad dark-green leaves, and crimson and green flowers. Belongs to Lobeliads. Introduced b\ 
M. Van Houtte. (Pig. 78.) 
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Branches and leaves covered with fine down. Leaves in threes, 
with rich red teeth. Flowers solitary in the axils, long-stalked, about 
two inches long, with a deep crimson tube, and a green-edged limb. 
Flore des Sevres, 544. 
161. Ixora salicifolia. Be (kmdotte. [alias Pavetta 
salicifolia Blume.) A stove shrub, of great beauty, from 
Flowers flame-coloured. Belongs to the Cinchonads. 
Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co. 
Some splendid specimens in a living state were exhibited at the 
floral exhibitions of Chiswick. Nothing can be more beautiful than 
the large flame-coloured flowers, or more graceful than the copious 
willow-shaped leaves, often more than a span in length. It is a 
native of the mountains of Java; first noticed there and characterised 
by Blume. Two varieties are in cultivation with Messrs. Veitch : 
the one with the smallest flowers has them the most deeply coloured. 
u Another Ixora is reported to be on sale in this country, quite 
different from this, under the name of /. saUcifvIta which may be 
the true plant of Blume ! ! " An erect shrub, 2-3 feet high, 
with rather closely-placed oppo- 
site leaves, borne on extremely 
almost 
short stalks, 
narrow-lance olate, 
sessile, 
much 
very 
acuminated, often a span long, 
entire, smooth, dark shining 
green above, paler beneath. Co- 
rymb large, — when the flowers 
are fully expanded, forming a 
hemispherical head of deeply-co- 
loured, orange-coloured flowers, 
or almost crimson. Style scarcely 
exserted. Stigma three-lobed. 
This showy Ixora, an abundant 
flowerer even when 
only 
six 
arm 
and moist stove, and a soil com- 
posed of about half loam and 
half peat, with a portion of 
sharp sand. In order to form a 
handsome plant, a young healthy 
one should be selected, and freely encouraged into quick growth by 
placing it in bottom-heat. As it increases in size it must be shifted into 
larger pots, which should be well-drained, so that water and syringing 
may be freely administered during the summer-season without the risk 
of the soil becoming saturated.— Botanical Magazine, t. 4523. 
162. Oncidium leucochilum. 
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under the alias of (vrtochilum 
163. Amaryllis lateritia. Bietrich. A stove Amaryllid from Guinea, with red flowers. 
Introduced by Mr. Decker of Berlin. 
It is uncertain to which of Herbert's genera this plant belongs ; it seems intermediate between Vallota and Amaryllis. 
