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rich, nor should it be much pruned, or it will principally grow gross wood, and 

 flower but sparingly. The flowers are produced in clusters of three or four at 

 each joint near the extremities of the shoots. The flower is of a campanitlate 

 form, tube short, limb five-parted rather more than two inches across, of a red- 

 dish yellow. 



Cle<ime lutea. — Golden flowered. (Bot. Reg. 67.) CapparidaceSe. Hex- 

 andria Monogynia. A native of the north west coast of America. It is a hardy 

 annual, blooming freely in summer, and being liable to damp off, requires to be 

 grown in an open and dry situation, and to have a strongish soil. The flowers 

 are of a preity yellow, produced numerous in racemes of three inches long. Each 

 blossom is about three quarters of an in A across. 



Fuchsia radicans. — Rooting fuchsia. (Bot. Reg. 66.) Onograceae. Oc- 

 tandria Monogynia. It is a native of Brazil, but succeeds well in a conservatory 

 or greenhouse. It is a free grower, requiring the same treatment as other 

 fuchsias. In growth it has a pendant, trailing habit, and when trained to a 

 pillar or stake, has a pretty effect. It strikes freely from cuttings. It was 

 introduced into this country by John Miers, Esq., who gives the following 

 account of it ; viz., that he met with it in the Organ Mountains, in 1829, cling- 

 ing in long festoons from a tall tree, and having a profusion of bri.liant flowers. 

 On a subsequent visit a cutting was taken and brought home ; it struck root, and 

 four years elapsed before the plant flowered. The principal stem is now 18 feet 

 high, with many others nearly as long. From its handsome flowers and trailing 

 habit, it is likely to be a favourite and ornamental plant for the greenhouse. 

 In its native situation it grew at an elevation of 3,000 feet, where at night the 

 temperature is frequently as low as 35° to 45° of Fahrenheit. Although Mr. 

 Miers's plant did not bloom till it had attained the size above stated, plants 

 raised from cuttings in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, very small plants, have 

 bloomed freely. It is a trailing perennial shrub, having numerous branches. 

 The leaves are of an elliptic form, three inches long and one and a half broad, 

 quite smooth on the upper surface. The flowers are produced at the axils of the 

 leaves, and as many of them as there ai e leaves at each joint, being usually four. 

 Each flower is about two inches long, having a footstalk nearly that length too. 

 Tike calyx is of a bright scarlet, the sepals expanding quite open. The petals 

 are of a deep purple, but in consequence of being almost wholly enclosed within 

 the tubular portion of the calyx little of it is seen. It will be a valuable acqui- 

 sition to this lovely tribe; we hope to be able to supply plants of it soon.' 



Gesneha mollis. — Downy Gesnera. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 243.) Gesneracea?. 

 Didynamia Angiospernaia. A native of Caraccas, introduced into this country 

 in 1839. It has been usually kept in a stove, but it will thrive exceedingly well 

 in a greenhouse. It is a very handsome flowering species. The flower stem 

 rises to the he ght of four or five feet, or even more. It is a sub-shrubby plant. 

 The flowers are very like those of G. oblongata (or elongata), but it is not of so 

 shrubby a habit, but differs in having strong, erect, tall, succulent stems, and 

 large soft leaves. The flowers proceed from lhe axii of the leaves, on a footstalk 

 about three inches long, and are of a brilliant light crimson colour. Each flower 

 is a little more than an inch long. It is of easy culture and blooms the whole of 

 summer, and is readily propagated by cuttings. 



Houixetia vittata. — Striped flowered. (Bot. Reg. 69.) Orchidaceie. 

 Gynandria Monandria. This curious plant is very similar in habit to Maxillaria 

 Warreana. The flowers are produced in an erect raceme, forming a long pyra- 

 mid of bloom. Each flower is about two inches across, yellow streaked with 

 deep chocolate. 



Makiantiius cckrujlea-pi;nctatus. — Blue-spotted flowered. (Pax. Mag. 

 247.) Pittosporacea:. Pentandria Monogynia. From the Swan River Colony. 

 It is a greenhouse shrubby climber, its slender branches twining to a consider- 

 able length, something like a Sollya, producing quantities of its pretty pale-blue 

 flowers, in umbellate-cymose heads. Each flower is about three quarters of an 

 inch across. It grows freely in a compost of heath mould and sandy loam, hav- 

 ing a liee drainage. It strikes readily from cutiiugs. 



