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It has much of the habit of the common bindweed of the fields, 

 with shghtly pubescent fohage, and the flowers are about the 

 size of an anemone, irregularly double, and of a pale, delicate 

 pink. It will probably prove a fine plant for turning out into 

 the border in the same way as the Ipomaea Learii. At pres- 

 ent, it is extremely rare. It is a valuable acquisition to our 

 summer flowering greenhouse plants. 



16. Fuchsia micra'ntha Hook. Great-flowered Fuchsia. {Ona- 



grdccce.) 



A greenhouse shrub ; growing two feet high ; with rosy crimson flowers ; appearing in summer; 

 a native ofPeru ; increased by cuttings -, cultivated in good rich light soil. Flore des Serres, Vol. 

 n pi. 15i. 1S46. 



Among all the fuchsias which have been mtroduced. this 

 species stands conspicuous, not only in the color of the flow- 

 ers, which are of the most brilliant deep rose, but in their 

 very large size, and the abundance in which they are pro- 

 duced on plants not more than two feet high. It was found 

 in Peru by Mr. Lobb, collector for Messrs. Yeitch of Exeter, 

 and first flowered in their collection in 1845. It is one of the 

 most desirable which has yet been introduced, having all the 

 splendor of the F. corymbiflora, but, unlike that variety, bloom- 

 ing with the ordinary care given to the common varieties. 

 {Flo?-e des Serres, Sept. 1846). 



17. Metho'nica LeopoYdh Van Houtte. King Leopold's Me- 



thonica, (hiliacece). 



A bulbous plant ; growing four feet high ; with yellow flowers; appearing in summer; a native 

 of Africa ; increased by offsets; cultivated in sandy peat and loam. Flore des Serres, Vol. H. pi. 



163. 1846. 



Another fine plant belonging to the liliaceous tribe, and 

 having somewhat of the noble appearance of the Japan lilies, 

 and like them flowering in summer. It is described as hav- 

 ing a majestic bearing, ample and deep green foliage, and 

 large flowers of a soft yellow, marbled and striped with rose, 

 and the colored figure fully justifies the description. It was 

 sent home from the western coast of Africa in 1845, by the 

 collector of Van Houtte, and first flowered at his establish- 

 ment in August 1846. It is named in honor of Leopold, King 

 of Belgium. It is of robust habit, but the stems are rather 

 slender, and the leaves, which are recurved, have a terminal 

 tendril which is generally curled up. The flowers are very 



