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MISCELLANY 



OF 



NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



New or Rare Plants. 



Alloplectus repens. The Creeping. (Bot. Mag. 4250.) Gesneriaceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. Mr. Purdie discovered it in the ascent of the Sierra 

 Nivadi, St. Martha, growing in damp woods. He sent it to the royal gardens of 

 Kew. It is a small shrubby plant with trailing stems. The flowers are tube- 

 formed, an inch long, yellow tinged with red. The limb is four parted, spread- 

 ing. The calyx is large, green, blotched with purple, and the footstalk, an inch 

 long, is also purple. It is a hothouse plant. 



Anguloa RuCkeri. Mr. Ruckers. (Bot. Reg. 41.) Orchidacese, Gynan- 

 dria Monandria. Mr. Linden discovered this plant growing in the ground, 

 in low bottoms" in the midst of forests in Venezuela. The flowers are large, 

 each being three inches across, yellow spotted numerously with crimson, and 

 having a rich deep drimson lip. It is very interesting and beautiful. 



ASYSTACIA CoROMANDELIANA. The CoROMANDEL AsYSTACIA. (Bot. Mag. 



4248.) (Synonym Ruellia secunda, R. obliqua, Justicia Gangelica.) A native 

 of India, and has bloomed in the collection of the royal gardens of Kew, in the 

 stove. It is somewhat shrubby, branching. The flowers are produced in 

 racemes of from six to ten flowered. The corolla has a funnel-shaped tube 

 about an inch long, pale green, sprinkled with purple ; the limb large, five- 

 parted, deep lilac, with dark spots. The spreading limb is about an inch and 

 a half across. It blooms very profusely in autumn, and is a valuable ornament 

 at that season, well meriting a place in every collection of hothouse plants. It 

 is a very likely plant to flourish even in the greenhouse. 



Beaufortia splendens. The splendid. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Myrtacea, 

 Polydelphia Pentandria. A native of New Holland, an evergreen greenhouse 

 shrub, low, branching. The flowers are produced in short clusters, a rich 

 scarlet, very showy and beautiful. This class of plants, Beaufortias, Melaleucas, 

 Calothamnus, &c. highly merit a place in the greenhouse, being very interesting 

 and beautiful. 



Centropogtjn suhinamiensis. (Pax. Bot. Mag.) Lobeliaceoe, Pentandria 

 Monogynia. A native of Surinam. It forms a dwarf compact bush, producing 

 numerous heads of bright rosy-pink coloured flowers, each about two inches 

 long. It is known in some of our collections as Lobelia surinamensis, L. spec- 

 t.ibilis, and Siphocampylus spectabilis. It blooms for a long period, and flou- 

 rishes in a stove or greenhouse. 



Clematis iiexasepala. Six-petali.ed Virgin's Bower. (Bot. Reg. 44.) 

 Ranunculaceae, Polyaudria Polygyria. A native of New Zealand, a little 

 twining plant. The flowers are small, pale-green, very sweet-scented and are 

 produced in threes or fours from the axils of the leaves. It is a hardy green- 

 house plant, and blooming very freely, also sweet-scented, well deserves to be 

 in every one. It is in the collection of the Horticultural Society at the 

 Chiawick gardens, where it bloomed profusely in the spring. 



Coli.ania Andinamarcana. (Bot. Mag. 4247.) Amaryllidea, Ilexandria 

 Monogynia. Collected by Mr. Matthews on the lofty mountains of Andina- 

 BUrca in Peru. It is a tall straggling plant, and no doubt in its native situa- 



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