figured in the London Plor. and Bot. Jllagazines. 411 



beautiful plant for the border, remaining in bloom until the pres- 

 ent time, notwithstanding there have been several hard frosts. 

 It is not gross in its foliage, like the common evening primrose, 

 but has long and slender recumbent branches, and attains, under 

 good cultivation, the height of twelve or fifteen inches. To our 

 taste, it is the neatest of all the annual kinds we have ever grown. 

 Fabdccce or LeguminbscB. 



OXVLO'BIL.M 

 relu-uni H. B. Ketu?e-?eared Oxv!6!>ium. A gref^n-hcu?e plant; (;roTin<r two feet liisli; "Ith 

 orange-colored Howers: appe^.ring in April an I Jlay; grow n in \ eat and loam; iucreasLd by 

 callings. Hort. Journal, JNew Series, ifo. VII. 



A beautiful species, with splendid capitate heads of orange- 

 colored flowers. It is an old inhabitant of English collections; 

 but, like many of the New Holland plants, has been neglected, 

 and is found in but few collections. It is, however, a very 

 showy and desirable plant. [Hort. Jour., June.) 



DicoTrLEDorcous, MoNOPETALous, Plants. 



Convolvuldcece, 



Batatas bonariensis Lindl. " A handsome twining convolvu- 

 laceous plant, with large purple flowers, imported from Buenos 

 Ayres, by Messrs. Lowe & Co., of Clapton. Tt has handsome 

 purple flowers, and appears as if intermediate between Ipomse^a 

 Horsfalh'fE and insignis. It requires only the protection of the 

 green-house." This will probably be figured soon, as it must 

 prove a very valuable plant from its hardiness; nearly all the ipo- 

 maeas require the heat of the stove, particularly the 1. Horsfalh"cc 

 and insignis, the former of which is a brilliant species, and the 

 latter exceedingly showy. Being of a character between these 

 two, it cannot be otherwise than a fine addition to the few green- 

 house twiners. {Bot, Reg., Mis. Not., July.) 

 Ycrbendc€(B. 



Ferbena Tweediedua superba. — Under this name we have 

 lately noticed that a variety has been exhibited at the meetings 

 of the London Horticultural Society. Through no other source 

 have we heard of it; but as there seems, from this, to be two kinds 

 of the V. Tweediedna in cultivation, we have thought that some 

 few observations upon the subject, in connection with a plant 

 which we possess, would not be uninteresting to many of our 

 readers. 



There are two distinct kinds of verbenas which we have grown, 

 and which are in some other collections, that we have received 

 under the name of F. Tweediedna, One, only, can be the true 

 species; but as both were imported for it, it remains to be as- 

 certained which is the correct one. V. Tweediedna according 

 to Paxton's .Magazine of Botany, where it is figured (and notic- 

 ed in our HI., page 225) is descihcd as having "rosy crimson 



