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tural Society, running along the rafters of the stove in which it is placed. Flowers 

 of a beautiful violet colour. It does not produce fruit, but Mr. James McNab 

 thinks he will probably succeed in propagating it, as with other species and 

 similarly rooted plants, by inserting a bud from the stem into a portion of the 

 root, removed and treated as are ordinory cuttings." 



Lathyrus tomentosus. — Leguminosae. Diadelphia Decandria. A half- 

 hardy suffruticose perennial form Bueno Ayres, whtch will stand the open air 

 if planted against a south wall. It was introduced by George Barker, Esq., in 

 1839, and seems a most desirable plant for covering the lower part of a conser- 

 vatory wall. 



Eutiiales siacropuyli.a. — Broad-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 3.) GoodeniaceEe. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. Captain Mangles, R.N., received seeds of this plant 

 from a lady at Port Augusta, seeds being presented by that gentleman to the 

 London Horticultural Society ; it has bloomed in the society's garden. It is a 

 greenhouse perennial herbaceous plant, which blooms from early in summer to 

 the end of the season. The flower stems grow to the height of three or four 

 feet, terminating by a profusion of panicles of gay yellow flowers, having a dark 

 centre. Each flower is about au inch across. Euthales, from eu, well, and 

 thalh, to flower; in allusion to its gay and numerous flowers. 



Gloxinia rubra. — Red-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 271.) Gesneriaceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. We noticed this beautiful flowering plant in an 

 early number of the last year's Cabinet, having seen it growing in the Epsom 

 Nursery. Since then, Mr. Young obligingly sent us a blooming specimen. Mr. 

 Young informs us that he bought the stock of it of Mr. Buist, nurseryman, of 

 Philadelphia, who stated he had obtained it from Rio Janeiro a few years back. 

 When the blossoms first open they are of a deep blood colour, but change to a 

 paler colour, so as to be of a rosy-crimson. It is as profuse a bloomer as the 

 older kinds, and merits a place in every collection of stove plants. 



Gongora bufonia. — Toad-skinned. (Bot. Reg. 2.) A native of Brazil, 

 which has bloomed in the collection of S. Rucker, Esq. The flowers have 

 somewhat the appearance of G. maculata and atropurpurea, but the spots and 

 stains are of a dull purple upon a dull yellow ground. 



Mat.ya i.atkrita. — Pale red-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3846.) Malvacese. 

 Monadelphia Polyandria. Mr. Tweedie sent specimens of this plant from 

 Buenos Ayres to this country, and plants have bloomed in the open border of 

 the Dublin College Botanic Garden. It is an herbaceous plant, with prostrate 

 stems. The flowers are of a pale red, with a yellow centre, surrounded by a 

 rose-coloured ray. Each flower is about an inch and a half across. 



Mahtynia fragrans. — Fragrant. (Bot. Reg. C.) Pedaliaceae. Didynamia 

 Angiospermia. It is said to be a Mexican plant, from the vicinity of Real del 

 Monte mines. The plant grows to the height of three or four feet. The flowers 

 are produced on racemes, having four or five on each. Each flower is about an inch 

 and a half across, similar in form to a good-sized Mimulus, of a fine rosy-purple, 

 having a streak of yellow along the lower side of the tubular part of the flower. 

 It requires the treatment of a Balsam ; is said to be a half-hardy annual, fragrant 

 and beautiful. 



Oncidium maciiantherum. — Large anthered. (Bot. Mag. 3845.) Orchi- 

 daceac. Gynandria Monandria. A native of the interior of Mexico, sent from 

 thence to the splendid collection at Woburn, where it has bloomed. It is a very 

 diminutive plant, the flower stems rising little more than an inch high, each 

 being two-flowered. The flower is about half an inch across. Sepals and petals 

 of a yellowish-green, tinged with red. Lip of a lemon colour, blotched with 

 pale purple. 



Oktiiosii'iion incuhvus. — Incurved. (Bot. Mag. 3847.) Labiatae. Didy- 

 namia Angiospermia. A native of the mountains near to Silhet. It has 

 bloomed in the Edinburgh Botanic (harden, having been sent there from the 

 Collection in the Sion House gardens. It is a perennial, half-shrubby plant. 

 The flowers are produced in terminal racenious spikes, in profusion; whorls four- 



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