of new and beautiful Plants. 139 



flowers freely. Its habit would indicate a less abundant and 

 early bloom than many of the other kinds, but young plants 

 have already flowered in Birmingham. It strikes freely from 

 cuttings. [Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



cordiftlia Benth. Heart-leaved Fuchsia. A green-house plant; growing three to five 

 feet high; with green and crimson flowers; apiiearing in spring; a native of Gunlemula; 

 increased by cuttings, and grown in leaf mould and loam. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 70. 



The family of fuchsias has become exceedingly numerous, 

 from the introduction of many new species, and the produc- 

 tion of numerous new seedlings by the English florists. But 

 notwithstanding the brilliancy of many of them, they are 

 yet to be eclipsed by new additions from abroad. "If," 

 says Dr. Lindley, "the woods of Mexico and Chili, now al- 

 most exhausted, have yielded us the species ihymifolia, mi- 

 crophylla, cylindrica, Lycioides, fulgens, macrostemma, grac- 

 ilis, and all their train of beautiful hybrids, we have still the 

 rich store-house of the Cordilleras of Peru to investigate, from 

 which F. corymbiflora only, of itself a treasure, has yet ap- 

 peared." M. Hartweg, the Horticultural Society's collec- 

 tor, is now on his route from the Cinchona forests of Guaya- 

 quil to the untrodden mountains of Popayan, and will probably 

 detect some new and fine species. 



The F. cordifolia has a glabrous stem, with opposite, cor- 

 date, acuminate leaves; the flowers are tubular and pubescent, 

 about two inches long, of a fine scarlet, the segments termi- 

 nated with green, thus forming a striking contrast. The foliage 

 is large, and "handsomer than the generality of its race." 

 M. Hartweg found it on a volcano, ten thousand feet above 

 tlie level of the sea. It will be an excellent species from 

 which to raise hybrids, by crossing it with the globosa and 

 others. Increased by cuttings, and requires the same treaU 

 inent as others of the genus. {Bot. Reg.^ Dec.) 



Campanulacect. 



GLOSSOCO'iMIA (from a money lag, because of the reseniblance of the flower to It.) 

 D. Don. 

 ovita Benth. Ovate Pouch-bell. A hardy perennial; growing a foot and a half high; 

 with white and pink flowers; appearing in July; a native of the north of India; in- 

 creased by seeds. Bot. Reg., 1842, t, 3. 

 Syn. Wahlenb^rgia Roylei Alph. U. C. 



A pretty perennial plant, growing eighteen inches high, with 

 erect stems, and small, cordate, ovate, pubescent leaves; each 

 shoot terminated by a single white bell-shaped flower, the in- 

 ner part of the corolla veined and streaked with bright pink. 

 The plant is of simple cultivation, requiring only a common 



