180 J^otices of new and beautiful Plants 



probably soon become common. The seeds should be sown in 

 May in a bed of light rich soil, (covering them with a little sandy 

 peat,) in a situation not exposed to the mid-day sun: the plants 

 will be fit to pot in September, and should be kept in a frame dur- 

 ing winter and turned into the garden in the following April, where 

 they will commence blooming about the end of June, and contin- 

 ue in flower till destroyed by frost. A stock should be annually 

 raised from seeds or cuttings, as the profuseness of the blossoms 

 exhausts the old plants. Humboldt and Bonpland discovered this 

 species on the slope of the snow-capped mountains, 10,500 feet 

 above the sea. (Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



Cohrt'a Nun. Cohtenfiowered Fentsletnon. A hardy perennial; growing two feet high; with 

 p-ile purple flowers; appearing in August; a native of Texas; increased by seeds. Pai. 

 Mag. Hot. Vol. IV. p. 2-13. 



A much stronger species than the above, resembling in the 

 size of its blossoms the Cobce^a scandens, from whence its name. 

 The flowers appear in a terminal panicle, each peduncle bearing 

 from three to five; the outside of the corolla is pale purple; the 

 inside nearly white, striped with red lines which extend to the edge. 

 Mr Drummond sent the seeds of this from the interior of Texas, 

 but we believe Mr. Nuttall previously discovered it on the prai- 

 ries of the Red River, and gave it the above specific name. It 

 probably requires the same treatment as the other species, and 

 may need the protection of a frame in our climate; but it is am- 

 ply worth any trouble in cultivation. It is more splendid than 

 any which we have heretofore seen figured. All the pentstemons 

 are beautiful plants, and many of them perfectly hardy. They 

 should be better known. {Pax. Mag. Bot., Dec.) 



^olanace(z. 



BRUGMA'NSM. 



Wayminii Piixt. Mr Waymnn's Rriicmansia. A green-house shrub; growing two feet high; 

 with purple flowers; appearing during summer; a native of South America; increased hy 

 cuttings antl grown in peat, loaui auddecomposed manure. Pax. Mag. Bot. Vol. IV. p. 241. 



This is the plant we noticed at p. 73 under the name of B. 

 Whymanii, and which, it was stated in the paragraph we quoted, 

 was identical with the old Datura Stramonium. But according to 

 Mr. Paxton it is quite a distinct species. It is not certainly the 

 D. Stramonium as that has white flowers. The only purple flovir- 

 ered one in the genus is the old D. fastuosa. 



The present subject, the Brugmansra Wayrnanff, is a very el- 

 egant plant. It presents the uncommon character of funnel shap- 

 ed flowers becoming semi-double; that is, one perfect corolla plac- 

 ed inside of the other; as an example of this we may mention the 

 polyanthus, one variety of which, very common in gardens, pos- 

 sesses the same habit. A specimen from the same plant from which 

 this drawing was taken, ]^Ir. Paxton adds, contained, besides the 

 stamens and pistil, "three corollas growing within each other and 

 surrounded by a purple calyx, but connected only at the base." 



