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CLXXXIX. RubidcecB. 



RANDIA (named after Isaac Rand, nil English apothecary). 



Bowicilna Jl/an Cii nil in, ah am, Mr. Bowiu's Raiidia. A slender stove shrub; flowers yellowish 

 white; propagated by cuttings; a native of Brazil. Bot. Mag., t. 3409. 



"A handsome stove plant," similar in the appearance of 

 the flowers to the Gardenia florida, but with a very long- 

 tubulous corolla. The genus is doubtful, as Dr. Hooker had. 

 not the means of examining the fruit. The leaves opposite, 

 oblong, waved, on short footstalks, glaucous green beneath, 

 except on the midrib. Flowers axillary by the branches, 

 striking out immediately beneath. Discovered in 1815, in 

 Brazil, by Messrs. Cunningham and Bowie. The drawing 

 was taken from the Royal gardens at Kew. {Bot. Mag.., 

 June.) 



CCYII. Primuldcece. 



PRIMULA. 



palinuri Jacg. Palinurian Primrose ; a green-house perennial, growing about a foot high ; 

 llowers yellow, appearing in March ; propagated by seeds; a native of Italy. Bot. Mag., t. 

 341-1. 



This is an elegant species of the Primula; the foliage is 

 very large, and ^ has a most striking resemblance to that of 

 a luxuriant plant of Sempervivum arboreum." "This cir- 

 cumstance, together with the bright yellow corollas, almost 

 pure white, mealy calyces, pedicel, and involucre, and the 

 season of its blossoming (March) render it a most desirable 

 acquisition." The fragrance is similar to the cowslip, but 

 much more powerful. The leaves are from four to six inches 

 in length, obovate, of a pale green color. A native of Palinuri, 

 near Salerno, in the Neapolitan dominions. {Bot. Mag., June.) 



CCIX. Gesnerece. 



GESNERA. 



allagophylla De Martins. Shifting-leaved Gesnera. A stove plant, growing a foot or more 

 in height ; flower orange yellow ; appearing in summer; propagated like the other species ; 

 a native of Brazil. Bot. Reg., t. 1767. 



Another beautiful stove plant, and " an interesting addition 

 to the showy and easily cultivable genus to which it belongs." 

 The stem is erect and hairy ; leaves in threes, opposite, sub- 

 sessile, oblong ; flowers in a long terminal spike, sessile, 

 hairy, with a short tube. Dr. Lindley is not certain that he 

 has referred it to the right species ; if so, it is "a native of 

 the auriferous plains of Brazil, in the province of the mines, 

 in various places, especially about villa Rica, the town of 

 S. Joao d'El Rey, in the Serras da Pires, and da Piedade, 

 and elsewhere." The drawing was made in the garden of 

 the Messrs. Young, of Epsom. {Bot. Reg., June.) 



CCXI. Scropliularinece. 



PENTSTEMON. 

 staticifolius Lindl. Sea Lavender-leaved Pentstemon. A hardy perennial plant, growing 

 about a foot high ; color of the flowers a bluish lilac ; appearing in summer ; a native of 

 California. Bot. Reg., t. 1770. 



" It is most nearly related to P. difi"usus (fig. in the Regis- 

 ter, t. 1132), from which it differs in its much larger and 

 more lilac flowers, in the form of its leaves, and in those 



