74 “NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS, 
BEJARIA COARCTATA.—CLOSE-FLOWERED. 
Ericacee. Polyandria Monogynia. 
It is a very neat ‘evergreen shrubby plant, growing about a foot 
high, and blooms profusely. The bush is similar in its growth to a 
Rhododendron hirsutum. The flowers are borne in large terminal 
racemes, of twenty or more in each. A separate blossom is about an 
inch and a half across, having seven petals, a pale rose streaked with a 
deeper colour. It has bloomed along with Chinese Azaleas in the 
greenhouse at Messrs. Lucombe, Pince,.and Co., of Exeter. It is 
supposed likely to prove a hardy shrub, (Figured in Bot. Mag., 
4433.) 
CALONYCTION MACRANTHUM.— LARGE-FLOWERED. 
Convolvulacee. Pentandria Monogynia. 
A magnificent perennial greenhouse climber, with an elongated 
tuberous rhizoma, and long, smooth, milky, climbing stems, of a 
sombre purple colour. The lower leaves are cordate-ovate, acuminate ; 
the upper ones hastate, with roundish basal lobes. The flowers grow 
in umbels of four or five together in the axils of the leaves; they are 
large and strong; the calyx is tubular, deeply five-parted, the three 
outer segments membraneous at the borders, and bearing on the outside 
a long divaricated horn; the tube of the corolla is cylindrical, delicate 
green, merging to white at the summit; the limb pure white, nearly 
five-lobed, each lobe being traversed by a broad fold or plait, which is 
prominent underneath, finely striated, and inclining to green. The 
flowers are from six to seven inches across, and the tube alone more 
than four inches long. Native country not known. It is the Ipomea 
Krusensternii of the Belgian gardens. 
Currita Moonir.—Mr. Moon’s Currira. 
This very fine species is a native of Ceylon. It blooms during the 
whole of summer, and its large rich purple flowers streaked with yellow 
are highly ornamental. It merits a place in every hothouse. During 
summer we found it bloom well in a warm greenhouse, and requiring 
similar treatment to the Gloxinias. It was figured in our last year’s 
volume, and now in Pax. Mag. Bot. 
DENDROBIUM DEVONIANUM.—THE DuKE OF DEVONSHIRE’S 
DENDROBIUM. 
Certainly one of the loveliest of all orchideous plants. It is a 
native of the Khoseea hills, in the East Indies. The flowers are borne 
in a rather dense terminal raceme. The ground colour is white. 
Sepals slightly tinged with purple. Petals, the tips have a rich purple 
spot. The lip is elegantly fringed, and its pure white ground beau- 
tifully ornamented with two large spots of rich orange, and its terminaal 
point tipped with purple. A separate flower is about two inches and 
a half across. he flowers are produced on leafless stems during the 
dry season. It merits a place in every collection. (Figured in Bot. 
Mag., 4429.) 
