46 Floriatltural atid Botatiical Notices. 



P. verrucosus ScJirad.y is smaller flowered, more cream-coloured, 

 and is a flir more robust plant, but altogether inferior in beauty 

 to P. speciosus. The true P. grandiflorus, and also P. latifolius, 

 Dr. Lindley has promised to figure afterwards. {Bof. Meg., 

 Kov.) 



Solandcece. 



iSi. BRVCtMA'XS/^ [ofbot. iv. p.241. 



•Wayman/j Paxt Wayman's JO or ? -2 myjn W.P & America 1S37 C Lp Paxt. mag. 



Raised in Sir H. Digby's gardens at Minterne Magnel, by 

 his gardener Mr. Waynian, from seeds imported from South 

 America. The tiowers have two distinct corollas ; and in one 

 specimen, besides the proper corolla, containing stamens and 

 pistil, there were three more growing within each other, and 

 surrounded by the proper calyx, and connected only at their 

 base. Propagated freely from cuttings in sand, and in a little 

 heat, under a glass. Messrs. Webber and Pierce, of whom 

 plants may be obtained, have hitherto treated it in the green- 

 house, but think it will flower in the open air in summer. {Paxt. 

 Mag. o/Bot., Dec.) 



Sa-ophidarinecv. 



17S3. .in'MULUS 159CX) Ivlteus [SwL Br. fl.-gard. t. 406. 



var. *WiUoni D. DoQ .V»*i VNTlson's ^ A pr J jl Y. spotted with P ... ?1S36 D p.l 



A perennial herb, with opposite, rounded or ovate, acute, 

 slightly wavy, leaves, about 1 in. long. It was raised at Miss 

 Wilson's, Stanhard House, Stamford Hill, from seeds of M. 

 liiteus. (5ic/. Brit. Fl.-Gard., Nov.) 



Asclepiddex. 



PHILIBE'RT/J Kunth gr&cilis D. Don ; Card. Mag., xiiL p. 504. 

 SyHoni/mc- : P. graudifldra Hooi. Sot. Mag., 361S. 



•TWEE'D/.^ Hook. The Tweedia. (In honour of Mr. Ttrecdie, a botanical eollector.1 [gard. 407. 



•cjerillea D. Don blue-jioircrai _§ A or 3 ... B Buenos Ayres ? ISoo C s.1 Swt. Br. fl.- 



The whole plant is densely clothed with downy white hairs. 

 Leaves opposite, stalked, cordate-lanceolate, mucronulate, entire, 

 even, i in. broad : posterior lobes rounded, connivent, frequently 

 overlapping each other. It is a native of Buenos Ayres, and 

 was first discovered by Mr. Tweedie. It is closely related to 

 Sarcostemma ; being principally distinguished by the absence of 

 the exterior crown, by the form and length of the pollen gland, 

 and by the presence of a tooth to each of the pedicels. It will 

 doubtless prove nearly, if not quite, hardy ; and young plants 

 raised from cuttings are frequently erect, and blossom when 

 scarcely J ft. high. There are plants in Mr. Gilan's nursery, 

 Shacklewell Lane. {Sict. Brit. Fl.-Gard., Nov.) 



Polj/gdlecP. 



£953. POLY GALA lSSiX> myrtiiblia 

 fvar. S grandiiOra Hoct. 

 SyMWyr/ic- ; P. grandiflCra LodJ. Bot. Cab., 12?r., H. B. 1S231. 



" Tlie Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the possession 

 of this handsome shrub to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it 

 was received from Southern Africa. It bears its lovely blossoms 



