supplementary io the Encyc. of Plants and Hort, Brit. 279 

 ^ricacecE. 



1173. £RI'CA ^ i. Tubiflbra 



9+I6a *c\\\oxo\bma. Lindl. green-edged M \ | or 2 n C.G ? C.G.H ... C s.p Bot. reg. n. s. 17. 



An erect and graceful bush, with crimson flowers tipped with 

 green, produced in clusters at the ends of the young shoots. It 

 was I'aised by Mr. Young, in the Taunton Nursery, and belongs 

 to Professor Don's genus Syringodea. Whether it has been 

 received from the Cape, or is a British hybrid, is not expressly 

 stated ; but the former is implied in the following sentence : — 

 " This, like the other Cape species of this charming genus, is 

 propagated easily from cuttings." [Bot. Reg., March.) 



9854 florida [3639. 



*var. campanulata Hook. heW-flowered it i i pr 3 my R. hybrid 1837 C s.p Bot mag. 



A charming shrub, which has attained the height of 2J ft. in 

 two years, and which, in the profu.seness, beauty, and expanded 

 form of its blossoms, in its foliage, and in the straightness and 

 vigour of its branches, is greatly superior to the species. It was 

 raised at Bothwell Castle, from seeds ot E. florida, by the very 

 intelligent gardener there, Mr. Turnbull, who selected it from a 

 number of seedlings, not apparently different from the parent. 

 The plant which bore the seed, it is conjectured, must have had 

 one of its flowers fertilised by the pollen of some other species, 

 probably by means of an insect, [Bot. Mag., March.) 



Bigiiomacead. 



1706a *AMPHrcOME Royle. Amphicome. {Amphi, round, and kcme, hair; in allusion to the structure 

 of the seeds.) Bignomaceai. 

 *argfita Royle finely cut fl_ A p.r 1 au L Himalayan Mts. ... C l.p Bot. reg. n. s. 19. 



A very elegant, and rather slender, perennial, probably hardy 

 enough to stand out on dry rockwork. Its flowers resemble 

 those of a bignonia, and its leaves those of some species of Co- 

 reopsis, or of the French marigold. " Seeds of this very rare 

 and curious plant were given to the Horticultural Society by 

 Professor Royle, marked as having been collected on the Hi- 

 malayan Mountains, at the elevation of from 6000 ft. to 8000 ft. 

 A single individual was raised, and produced its beautiful and 

 graceful flowers in August, 1837." It is very different from A. 

 Embdi, a still finer species, not yet introduced. It may be pro- 

 pagated either by seeds or cuttings. {Bot. Beg., April.) 



Polemonidcea^. 



501. Hoitza mexicdna Lam. Encyc, iii. p. 134. A charming 

 plant, with flowers of the most brilliant red, and altogether one 

 of the most beautiful of the Mexican Polemoniaceae. It has 

 long been a desideratum in this country, and has at length blos- 

 somed in the garden of Thomas Hairis, Esq., of Kingsbury. 

 {Bot. Reg., March.) 



Cotwolvuldcece. 



491. IpomcB'a * Schiedikna Hamilton, not of Zuccarini. A splen- 

 did hot-house climber, introduced by Dr. Hamilton of Plymouth^ 



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