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flower-garden. Lobelia, in compliment to M. Lobel, a celebrated botanical 

 Author and Physician: he died in 161G. 



8. Lobelia polyphylla. Many-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 35.30.) -4 native of 

 Valparaiso, from whence it has been recently sent to this country, and bloomed 

 in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Mr. Knight of Chelsea also possesses plants 

 of this species. The plant is perennial, suffruticose, growing a foot high, branch- 

 ing, each producing a terminal raceme of flowers, of a deep blood purple colour, 

 producing a beautiful appearance. The plant ought to be in every flower-garden. 



9. Menonvillea filifolia, Thread-leaved. (Brit. Flow. Gard. 371.) Cru- 

 cifera. Tetradynamia ; Siliculosa. A hardy annual plant, a native of Chile, 

 from whence it appears to have been sent to the Imperial Botanic Garden, at 

 St. Petersburgh, and from thence sent to A. B. Lambert, Esq. Boyton-House, 

 Wiltshire, where it bloomed the last summer. Ths stems grow erect, about a 

 foot high, each terminating in a longish raceme of flowers. The flowers are 

 Small, having very narrow petals, white. There are several other species of this 

 genus, all natives of Chile. Menonvillea, in compliment to M. Thiery Menon- 

 ville, an enterprising Naturalist of France. 



10. Muscaiua commutatom. Dark Purple Flowered Grape Hyacinth. — 

 (Brit. Flow. Gard. 369.) A native of Italy and Sicily, where it grows frequent 

 in the meadows. The flowers are produced in dense racemes about twenty in 

 each, of a dark purple colour. It is grown in the gardens of the Honourable. W. 

 T. II. Fox, Strangways, Abbotsbury Castle in Dorsetshire. The plant blooms 

 in March and April. The flowers are scentless. Muscaria, from moschos, allu- 

 ding to the order of the type. 



11. Nepenthes distillatoria. Distilling Pitcher Plant. Pas. Mag. Bot.) 

 This very singular plant is a native of the East Indies, aud was introduced into 

 this country in 1789. Tt was subsequently lost, but the late Dr. Carey gathered 



of it near Bengal, on the drear Mountains, who sent some to Mr. Cooper, 

 id' Wentworth. A very fine plant is now growing in the stove at Chatsworth, 

 which has near fifty pitchers upon it. The plant has bloomed for eighteen 

 months past. The flowers, which are numerous, are produced upon a raceme of 

 eight or nine inches long. 



12. Oncidium Lunatvm, Crescent-lipped. (Bot. Reg. 1929.) Orchidaceaj- 

 Gyandria; Monandria. This very neat flowering species bloomed in the collec- 

 tion of Messrs. Loddiges', during the last summer. It is a native of Demerara. 



pike rises about nine inches high. The flowers very much resemble those 

 ofO. Harrisoneanum. Each is about three quarters of an inch across. The 

 lum is white striped, with dark blood colour. The other portion of the 

 r is yellow, spotted with brownish-red. 



13. Pereskia aculeata. West India Goosebery. (Bot. Reg. 1928.) Cac- 

 tacea?; fcosandia; Monogynia; Synonym, Cactus Pereskia. This plant is an 

 old inhabitant of our hot-houses, but seldom seen in bloom, often used as a stock, 

 on which other kinds are inarched or grafted. The plant produces its flowers in 

 a panicle of ten or more upon each. They are white, rather more than an inch 



. and make a very pretty appearance. A fruit is produced much like a 

 soft mellon Gooseberry. Pereskia from N. F. Peireskin's, an Amateur Botanist. 



14. Spiranthus Brhcteosa. Long Bracted Lady's Traces. Orchidaceae 

 (iynaii'iia ; Monandria. (Bot. Reg. 1934.) A stove harbaceous species of 

 < IrchideiB, belonging to the division Neottiere. It was sent to Messrs. Loddiges' 

 from St Catharines. The scape rises about a foot high, terminating in a spike 

 of flowers. Thay are very small, of a pale yellow colour. Spiranthes, alluding 

 to the spiral manner that the flowers are produced in. 



15. Tropceolum bkachyservs. Short Spurred Indian Cross. (Brit Flow. 

 <iard., 370.) We have already given some particulars respecting this pretty 

 little plant, under the spacific name, Brachysema, which, by some mistake, we 

 hail so inserted it. It appears the proper specific title is as now given. We in- 

 troduce it in this place to correct the mistake. 



I(i. TulBAOHIA VlOLACEA. Violet-flowered. (Bot. Mag., 355.0.) Liliaca:; 



Hoxandria ; Monogynia. A native of Southern Africa. The scape rises about a 



foot high, producing an umbel of eight or nine flowers, of a bright shining purple 



colour. Each flower is about three quarters of an inch across. I'ulbaghia, in 



lent tu M. Tulbagh, a Dutch Governor. 



