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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
&S&5« Primula capitata. 
purple blossoms. 
Hooker. A hardy herbaceous plant, with close round heads of deep 
le Himalayas. 
Introduced 
Flowers in October. 
Raised at the Royal Gardens of Kew, from seeds sent by Dr. Hooker, which were gathered in June, 1849, from 
growing 
above the lcvi*l of the sea. It is, although of the same group of Priitiulce with the P. denticulata of the Nepal mountains 
and OUT wn P. farh/osa of the north of England and Scotland,- a remarkable and well-defined species, the flowers 
form 
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Dr. Hooker observed that it yields a faint fragrance, which it does in cultivation ; but tins, in part at least, 
is derived from the farinaceous substance of the leaves and flowers. It flowers with us in a pot in the rock-border. 
Scape often a foot long, moderately stout and thickened upwards, mealy, terminated by a dense globose head of flowers, 
bracteated at the base, the outer bracteas lanceolate, and forming a small reflexed involucre. Calyx sessile, mealy, 
btfge, campanulate, deeply five-fid, the segments ovate, acuminate, subpatent. Corolla with the tube nearly twice 
long as the calyx, almost white, mealy, a little inflated upwards, and transversely wrinkled ; limb of five, obcordate, 
spreading lobes, deep purple above, pale beneath. In habit this approaches our native species, P. farinom and 
region, and consequently subjected to a great degree of 
cold, yet, like other Alpine species of the genus, it will 
probably require some slight protection in this climate, espe- 
cially under our artificial mode of cultivation. During the 
past summer we had a number of plants growing very luxuri- 
antly, — appai'ently too much so, for not one of them has yet 
The fiimre fin the Bot. 
P. Scotica; and although it is a native of a high 
shown any appearance of flowering. 
Mag.) was drawn from a plant Jiat had not been so well taken 
care 
plants suddenly died : it is therefore safest, till we become 
better acquainted with this species, to grow it in a frame 
during winter ; and in summer to set it in a shady place, that 
sun 
It appears to suffer from frequent watering overhead ; the 
pot should, therefore, be placed in a pan, so as to receive 
water from the bottom. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4550. 
This is illustrated by one of the happiest of Mr. Fitch's 
always beautiful figures. 
226. Calceolaria cuneiformis. Ruiz and 
Pavon. A greenhouse shrub, with pale lemon- 
coloured flowers, from Bolivia. Blossoms during 
all the autumn and winter. Introduced by the 
Horticultural Society. (Fig. 109.) 
Raised from seeds purchased from Mr. Thomas Bridges, 
in 1846. This, in its wild state, is a stiff, short-branched 
bush, with small wedge-shaped leaves, covered with white 
hairs on the under side. It bears two or three flowers at 
the end of each branch, which is closely covered with short, 
rough hairs. In its cultivated state it has much larger and 
softer leaves, and weaker branches. The flowers are about as large as those of (7. iiitegrifolia, and of a pale lemon- 
colour. It is a very pretty greenhouse plant, with a better habit than the old shrubby Calceolarias. Journal of Hort. 
Soc, iii. p. 242. 
227. Cordylixe Sieboldii. Plane Aou. (alias Dracaena javanica Kunth ; alias Sanseviera 
javanica Blume.) A stove shrub, with small panicles of pale green flowers, and rich spotted leaves, 
Belongs to Lilyworts. Native of Java. Flowered by Mr. Van Houtte. 
This plant has been recently introduced from Java, by Dr. von Siebold. The leaves are of a very dark green colour, 
firm, convex, recurved, and beautifully variegated with pale green roundish blotches. The flowers are something like those 
of a Hyacinth in form, but are much smaller, and in terminal bunches. It gained a prize at the Exhibition of Flowers 
