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grown amazing]}', and is now a fine plant, 4 ft. high, covered 

 with beautiful kixuriant fohagc ; and each shoot terminated by 

 large spreading panicles of rich scarlet flowers, each flower 2 in. 

 long; and the whole plant having open, all at once, several hundred 

 blossoms. It has now been in this splendid state for more than 

 six weeks, and promises to continue quite as long again. It 

 thrives in equal parts of heath mould, loam, and vegetable soil ; 

 and delights in being frequently washed with the syi'inge." {Pax. 

 Mag. q/' Bot., Nov.) We are informed by Mr, Main, Mr. Geo. 

 Don, and others, that this is nothing more than the Cleroden- 

 dron squamatum Fa/it, Hort. Brit., No. 15681., Bot. Reg., t. 649.; 

 which was introduced in 1790, and flowered in Colville's Nursery 

 in 1822. On comparing the figure in the Botanical Register 

 with Mr. Paxton's figure, we have no doubt whatever of the 

 identity of the plants. 



174?. J'ERBE'NA 15642 Lambert/ 



*2 r6sc-a D. Don. roie-Jioivered ^ A or IJ jl Pk Carolina ... D co Swt. fl.-gard. 2. s. 363. 

 Si/nonymc: V. Drumiii6nd(>' Hort. 



" The V. Lambert/ was originally imported by the late Mr. 

 Lyon, by whom it was gathered in Carolina. The present very 

 pretty variety was collected in Texas by the late Mr. Drum- 

 mond, and is cultivated in gardens, as a distinct species, under 

 the name of /^. Drummond/V; but we have looked in vain for 

 characters to separate it from Lambert/ ; and we must confess 

 that the line of distinction even between this last and Aublet/a 

 is not easily drawn." {Sweet's FL-Gard., Dec.) 



•28421a Tweediea/ifl Hook. Tweedie's £ lAJ el ... s S Brazil ?1834 C p.l Bot. mag. 3541. 



" Dried specimens of this most lovely plant were sent, by the 

 kindness of Mr. Niven, the able and zealous curator of the 

 Glasnevin Botanic Garden, under the name here adopted." 

 " It will be seen at once that the species has much affinity with 

 V. chamaedrifolia B. M. {V. Melindres Gill., in Bot. Reg.\ 

 Hort. Brit.., No. 28421. ; but it is a tall upright-growing plant, 

 clothed with soft downy hairs; of a much more delicate texture, 

 especially in the leaves, which are considerably larger, more 

 acuminate and serrated, more cuneate at the base, and decidedly 

 petioled. The flowers are larger, and more inclining to rose 

 colour ('rich rosy crimson'), in greater number, and the raceme 

 more capitate. Hitherto it has only been treated as a stove 

 plant ; but it will, in all probability, be found to bear the open 

 air as well as V. chamaedrifolia." {Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



Begoti'iaceae. 



2r)54. BEGO'isIA 



*Fischeri otto Fischer's «.norlJ f.tnr W ... 1835 C l.p Bot. mag. 3532. 



This {ilant was introduced into the Edinburgh Botanic Garden 

 from Berlin. It has small flowers, but foliage exquisitely beau- 

 tiful in its colouring, this being as follows : — The leaves, when 

 young, are bright red behind, paler at the veins, and pink above, 



