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the Botanic Garden, Eio de Janeiro, in January last. It is 

 a slender growing plant, about nine feet in height, with 

 pinnate leaves. The racemes are axillary, and bear a few 

 golden yellow papilionaceous flowers, the back of the stan- 

 dard being spotted with dark reddish coloured spots. A 

 figure of this species in the Xovember number of this 

 year's "Botanical Magazine," t. 7384, was taken from a 

 plant flowered at Kew during the spring, raised from seed 

 received from Senor A. Sampaio, of San Paulo, S. Brazil. 



Others worthy of note which have flowered are : — Cross- 

 andra undulcefolia, Salisb., — an East Indian acanthaceous 

 plant, with reddish-orange flowers ; Lycoris aurea, Herb., — 

 a native of China, with bright golden yellow flowers, 

 belonging to the order Amaryllidece, and rarely seen in 

 cultivation ; Billbergia Porteana, Brong., — introduced in 

 1849 from Brazil, a showy bromeliad with a drooping 

 spike, the petals curled towards the base, and possessing 

 violet filaments ; Jacquemontia violacea, Choisy., — a pretty 

 tropical American climber belonging to the order Convol- 

 vulaceae, figured in the "Botanical Magazine," t. 2151, 

 under the name of Convolvulus pentcmthus, Jacq. ; Begonia 

 Frocbdi, A. DC, — first flowered by Otto Froebel, of 

 Zurich, in 1872, a fine scarlet-flowered species from 

 Ecuador ; Saintpaulia ionantha,, H. "Wend., — a newly intro- 

 duced plant from the Usambura ^Mountains of Central 

 Africa, first exhibited at the Ghent exhibition of 1893. 



