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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
247. Didymocarpi's crinita. Jack, {alias Henckelia crinita SprengeL) A yellow-flowered 
dark erreen leaves purple beneath. Belongs to Gesnerads. 
herbaceous plant from Malacca, with 
Flowers at Kew in Ai 
A lovely plant, its beauty rather depending on the leaves (which have 
a rich velvety hue, as well as a richness of colour, especially beneath) 
than upon anything striking in the flowers. The latter are pale yellow- 
white with us (Jack says, in their native country suffused with blush), 
and they contrast well with the dark foliage. We possess, in our her- 
barium, fine native specimens, gathered by Mr. Thomas Lobb at Singapore, 
given to us by Mr. Veitch (No. 311 of Lobb's collection), and we find, 
too, that this distinguished cultivator exhibited flowering plants at the 
Horticultural Society's Rooms in June, 1847. Stem erect, scarcely a span 
high, densely shaggy with purplish hairs. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceo- 
late, acute, finely dentato-serrate, all over hairy, above dark coppery green 
with a velvety lustre, beneath rich purple-red, penninerved, nerves pro- 
minent beneath. Corolla funnel-shaped, ventricose below the broad 
spreading five-lobed white lip, yellow, with the tube two inches long. 
Should be cultivated in a warm stove, in a temperature such as is suited 
to tropical Ovchhhutce, Oemeriacece, and other sub-epiphytal plants, that 
require a warm and moist atmosphere during their season of growth. 
1 1 appears to be of dwarf growth, and produces short lateral shoots from 
amongst the leaves, which strike root readily when treated as cuttings. 
Bot. Mar;., t. 4554. 
We fear that cultivators will be disappointed who expect to find much 
heauty in this plant beyond what belongs to the foliage, which is very 
handsome. 
248. Calceolaria alba. Ruiz and Pavon. A shrubby 
white-flowered slender plant, from Chili. Introduced by 
Messrs. Veitch & Co. Flowers in July. (Fig. 120.) 
A slender, smooth, viscid shrub, with linear leaves arched downwards, 
and furnished with distant simple teeth at the edge. The flowers are pure 
white, and form loose thyrso-like panicles. The lower lip of the corolla is 
nearly spherical. In a genus the species of which are so generally either 
yellow or purple, a white-flowered species is a horticultural acquisition. 
The present, if well cultivated, is one of the prettiest greenhouse shrubs 
of modern introduction, and may be expected to find much favour among 
gardeners. Except in colour, it is very like the yellow-flowered 
C. thifrsijfora, from the same country. 
