70 Floricultural and Botanical J^otices. 



corollas very long, tuberous, and gracefully recurving from 

 the calyx; their different hues forming a really pretty object. 

 For stove collections it is a fine addition. Easily grown from 

 cuttings in saud in a good heat. {Bot. Reg., May.) 



VolemonidceK. 



COB^E'j? Cavan. (in complimentto aSpanish Jesuit, named Cobo.) 

 stipulAris Benth. Clian£;eable Cobsa. An herbaceous climbing plant; growing ten feet 

 high; with greenish yellow flowers; appearing in August; a native of Mexico; in- 

 creased by seeds and cuttings. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 25. 



The common cobsea of our gardens (C. scandens,) is a 

 good representative of the present subject, except in the color 

 of the flower: in the former it is a fine purple, in the latter it is 

 of a greenish yellow. Its habits are the same: that is, it may 

 be treated as an annual by planting early in March, and turn- 

 ing out into the border, where it will flower freely in August 

 and September: or it may be sown later, kept in a frame or 

 green-house, and planted out the following year. By the lat- 

 ter mode it produces a much greatei' quantity of flowers. 

 This species flourishes well in a conservatory, as it does not 

 prefer too much light. Found by M. Hartwig, in Mexico, 

 and first flowered in the garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society, from seeds received from him. (Bot. Reg., May.) 



AcanthdcecB. 



STROBILA'NTHES (from pine cone, and a flower, in allusinn to the appearance of the 

 inflorescence of some species before the blossoms expand.) 

 scabra JVecs. Rough leaved Conehead. A stove plant; growing two feet high; with 

 yellow flowers; appearing in Aucust; a native of India; increased by cuttings; grown 

 in loam and peat. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 32.^ 



A very pretty stove plant, in habit somewhat like a justitia. 

 It is half shrubby, with dark green foliage, and terminal clus- 

 ters of gay yellow blossoms. The plant is covered over with 

 short stiff hairs, which form little points upon the leaves and 

 stems. The plants thrive if managed like the justitia; that is, 

 to keep them in rather small pots during summer, in a cool 

 situation, and bringing them into the stove in autumn, when 

 the change of temperature will speedily bring them into bloom. 

 Any free soil will suit it. (Bot. Reg., June.) 



Bignonvixce^. 



CO'LEjJ (after Gen. Sir G. Lowry Cole, Governor of Mauritius.) 

 floribiinda Bnjcr. The yellow Rei-rei. A stove plant; growing eight feet high; with 

 ye>llow flowers; appearing in August; a native of Madagascar; increased by cuttings; 

 Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 19. 



"A stove plant, with a stately aspect, and singular habit in 

 consequence of the stem, which is seven or eight feet high, 

 being perfectly simple, covered with noble pinnated leaves at 



