244 Editorial Miscellany. 



Among- many curious plants raised in the garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society from the abundant collections of our zealous friend, 

 Mr. Skinner, is this, which he describes as " an exquisite little 

 thing," Tvith ultramarine-coloi*ed seeds. It crawls over shady 

 banks. Both leaves and flowers beautiful." From its great re- 

 semblance to a GeophUa, it was provisionally named G. villosa, un- 

 der which name it has been distributed. Now that it has flower- 

 ed it has been identified as the Coccocypselum cordifolium of Brazil, 

 which has found <its way as far northwards as the forests of 

 Guatemala. The flowers are in very small heads, about three to- 

 gether, of a pale lilac color, and of little interest in their present 

 state ; but it is conceivable that if carpeting a bank, and bloom- 

 ing abundantly, the appearance might be gay enough. It is, 

 however, to the " ultramarine-colored" berries that we must trust 

 for the beauty which belongs to the plant. The leaves are round- 

 ish cordate, of firm texture, shaggy, with stalks longer than the 

 peduncles in the wild plant, though much shorter in the specimen 

 that has just flowered. — Ibid. 



EucH.\Ris Grandiflora. — This is one of the handsomest of bulb- 

 ous plants. A correspondent (J. M. A.) has sent us a flower, pure 

 white, thick, like fine kid leather, four and a half inches in dia- 

 meter, and sweet, like a Tuberose in the evening. In appearance 

 it may be compared to a Pancratium, or rather to a Eurycles. 

 The leaf is five inches broad by seven inches long, acute, some- 

 what heart-shaped, with the texture of a Funkia. Three or four 

 such flowers as are above described form ' an umbel, on a stiflF 

 terete scape. The tube is curved and trumpet-shaped, more than 

 two and a half inches long ; the border is quite flat, consisting of 

 six ovate segments, the inner overlapping the outer at the base. 

 The coronet is fleshy, cylindrical, about half an inch deep, 

 with eighteen thick teeth, every third of which is longer than the 

 others, and bears an anther. The style projects a little, is very 

 slender, slightly declinate, and ends in a flat bluntly three-lobed 

 stigma. Each cell of the ovary contains about a dozen papilli- 

 form ovules. 



The plant was found by Mr. Triana, one of Mr. Linden's collec- 

 tors, in the province of Choco, in New Grenada. It requires 

 stove temperature while growing, and a dry greenhouse when at 

 rest, and is a charming thing. — Ibid. 



