140 FlorieuUural and Botanical J^otices 



garden soil, and good situation, where it flowers freely in July. 

 It is increased by seeds. {Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



Gooden'ikceds. 



LESCHEN'AU'LTM 

 bilob;\ Lindl. Large blue Leschenaultia. A green-house plant; growing a foot high; 



with blue flowers; appearing all the sprinc; a native of Swan Riverj increased by 



cutiinas; grown in peat, loam, and sand. Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 2. 

 Syn. Leschenaultia grandifldra De Cand. 



The great beauty of the old Leschenaultia formosa of our 

 gardens, is acknowledged by all who have ever seen it: its 

 delicate heath-like foliage, its small stature, and the profusion 

 of its orange scarlet flowers, displayed nearly the whole year 

 through, has rendered it a universal favorite in all choice collec- 

 tions. When it was announced that a species with similar hab- 

 its, and with fine blue flowers, had been discovered, great inter- 

 est was excited among cultivators to introduce it to British 

 collections, for it could not fail to be as generally cultivated 

 and admired as the formosa: in due time plants were procured, 

 and they bloomed for the first time in the fall of 1840, in the 

 collection of INlessrs. Veitch & Sons, of Exeter, who obtain- 

 ed the large silver medal of the London Horticultural Society 

 for the specimen exhibited. Its reputation has not been ex- 

 aggerated, for few plants can "be more lovely than its deep 

 azure flowers, on so delicate and heath-like a foliage." To 

 describe it is only to imagine the orange scarlet flowers of the 

 L. formosa to be changed into deep blue, and the L. biloba 

 is before us. Dr. Lindley states that there are other species 

 of Leschenaultia in Swan River, not yet introduced, "one, 

 too, with blue flowers," called the L. grandiflora, which ap- 

 pears, from the dried specimens, to be loaded with "blossoms 

 of a much larger size than this." 



This species is as easily treated as the formosa, requiring 

 the same soil, and the same situation in the green-house. Cut- 

 tings root freely in spring and summer, under a bell-glass, in a 

 little heat. When growing, care should be taken to nip off 

 the tops of the branches, to make the plants form compact 

 bushes. [Bot. Reg., Jan.) 

 Primuldcece. 



iYSIMACHIA. 



LobcUnldes Wallich Lobelia-like Loose-strife. A hardy perennial; growing one to two 

 feet hiarh; with white flowers; appearing from July to October; a native of India; in- 

 creased by seed and division of the roots; grown in common garden soil. Bot. Reg., 

 1842, t. 6. 



A rather pretty plant, with opposite ovate leaves, and short 

 petioles; the stem terminated by a raceme of small, white, 



