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Botanical Magazine for August.—The plants figured are Clusia 
grandiflora, Splitg. (t. 8387); Torenia atropurpurea, Ridl. (t. 8388) ; 
Landolphia Petersiana, Dyer (t. 8389) ; Mormodes revolutum, Rolfe 
(t. 8390), and Mutisia Clematis, Linn. f. (t. 8391). 
Clusia grandiflora is a native of Guiana, and is figured from 
material supplied by Mr. R. Irwin Lynch, of the Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, where the plant has flowered annually for some 
years past. e flowers are very handsome, the eight petals, which 
are white with rose-coloured markings towards the base, are 2} inches 
long and 2 inches wide. The species, like many of its congeners, 
is epiphytic, and in a state of nature in many instances ultimately 
destroys the plant which supports it by strangling it. 
The Torenia is a very distinct species, remarkable in the shape 
and colour of its flowers. These are dark purple, and have a long 
narrow tube. As is commonly the case in Torenia, the flowers are 
very fugitive, but as they are produced freely the species is an 
ornamental subject for a warm moist house. 7. atropurpurea is 
a native of the island of Sumatra and of the central portion of the 
alay Peninsula, The Kew plant from which the illustration was 
prepared was presented by the late Colonel Beddome, who had 
received the species from Sir Frank Cris 
p. 
s, A plant has been purchased for the Kew collection, 
and from this the material for the figure was procured. The 
species has showy, cinnabar-red flowers with a yellow lip, and is 
allied to M. speciosum, Linden, 
Mutisia Clematis is a handsome climbing Composite from the 
Andes of Peru and Colombia, having pinnate leaves and large 
flower-heads, which are conspicuous with their bright red florets. 
The plant has been grown at Kew for many years, and a fine 
specimen is at present trained against a pillar in the Himalayan 
section of the Temperate House. 
