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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
This handsome plant, with flowers of the size and colour of Lemonia spectabilis, but arranged in a compound raceme 
or tiiyrse, is one of six species of a shrubby genus, detected in Brazil by M. Auguste de St. Hilaire. He dedicated it 
to his friend and patron Don Rodriguez Pereira de Almeidea. It forms a branching shrub, three to five feet high, with 
leaves which are alternate, broadly lanceolate, acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, penninerved, quite entire at the 
margins. Panicle, or compound raceme, thyreoid. Flowers often two or three together, moderately numerous. Calyx 
short, cut into five acute teeth. Petals obovato-spathulate, very obtuse, spreading, deep rose-colour (as is the calyx). 
Filaments linear, contracted below the anther, slightly downy, grooved towards the base, and above the groove are two 
hairy tubercles. Ovary of five lobes, pellucido-punctate, surrounded by an entire, cup-shaped nectary. The species of 
Almeidea require to be grown in a stove temperature. The one here figured flowered during the month of September 
in the Palm-house. It should be potted in a mixture of light loam and leaf-mould, and receive the benefit of bottom- 
heat, which we consider of great importance in cultivating, and maintaining in a healthy state, plants of slow growth like 
the present. It is increased by cuttings plunged in bottom-heat. — Bot. Mag., t. 4548. 
202. Acantholimon glumaceum. Boissier. (alias Statice Ararati of gardens.) A hardy very 
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Belongs to the Order of Leadworts. 
coloured flowers. 
This is one of the " Hedgehog " Statices, of which an example or two are already known to gardeners. It is curious 
when in leaf, and very pretty while in flower. The usual treatment of " Alpine plants " suits it. Mr. Henfrey doubts whether 
this is or is not the species to which he refers it ; we have fine specimens of it from Armenia, collected by Jas. Brant, Esq., 
H.M. Consul at Erzeroum, three times as large as the specimen represented in the Gardener's Magazine of Botany ; but 
we do not find it among any of the authentic specimens of M. Boissier in our possession. We fear that Mr. Henfrey is 
right in thinking that this botanist has multiplied species too much. 
203. Begonia Ixgramii. Henfrey. A handsome ffardei 
with 
of pale pink flowers. Requires a stove. 
Said to have been raised by Mr. Ingram, of Frogmore, between B. fuchsioides and B. nitida. The leaves are four inches 
long, very oblique, half heart-shaped, dark glossy green, slightly ciliate and crenelled ; the under side is green also. The 
male flowers have four decussating sepals, of which the inner are smaller ; the females have five nearly equal sepals, 
Oard. Mag. of Bot. ii. p. 153. The placenfeition is that of Dlploclinium. Mr. Henfrey proposes in this article to form 
another subdivision of the genus Begonia, under the name of Platyclinium, for the well-known many-lobed placenta of 
B. cinnabarina, which however he does not connect with any other species. 
201. Catasetum Lansbergii. (alias Mganthiis Lanshergii Reinwardt and De Yriese.) A ter- 
restrial stove Orchid from the Caraccas, with a long 
purple flowers. Blossomed in the Garden of Leyden. 
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Very nearly the same as Catasetum callosum, from which it differs in the flowers being green, spotted with purple 
not wholft nnlnnrWI T+ r»or» c- rt o««^l„, v j» *• _. • _ 
and not whole coloured. It can scarcely be a distinct species 
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Spathodea l.evis. Palisot de Beauvois. A hothouse tree from Sierra Leone, belonging 
Mes 
to the Order of Bignoniads. Flowers handsome, white streaked with rose. 
Lucombe and Co. Blossoms in June. (Fig. 100.) 
Imperfect as are the figure and description of Spathodea Icevis in Palisot de Beauvois, I am yet of opinion I am 
correct in referring it to this plant. If by the term " hevis" applied to the species it is meant that there are no glands 
on the calyx or corolla, I may observe, that however obscure on the dried specimens 
(from which M. de Beauvois' drawing and character were derived) they are apparent 
enough on the living plant. Our specimen is sixteen feet high ; but it flowers when much 
smaller. Its stem is woody but soft. The leaves are alternate, except those below the 
inflorescence, which are often in whorls of three, all of them unequally pinnate, with from 
tour to six pair of opposite, ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrated, glabrous, sessile leaflets 
Panicle terminal, corymbose, with numerous large flowers. Calyx 
green, tipped with red, split open more than half-way down on one 
side, w lt h several dark-coloured glands near the base, irregularly 
toothed at the apex. Corolla campanulato-infundibuliform, white 
delicately spotted and streaked with rose ; tube widening upwards ;' 
lnnb obscurely two-Iipped ; upper lip of two rounded lobes ; lower , I W V ~/ — 
Itr t7 ■ ones ' but ,arger and more 8 P readin * » a » ^ ht] y " 
It is nrn.r! '! ? tr " P,Cal *"* ° f **■* ****** requiring the temperature of the stove, and growing freely in light loam, 
propagated by cuttings planted under a bell-glass in white sand, and plunged in bottom-heat.-**. **, t 4537- 
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