152 TJie Allamanda. 



A. IVardlcana, the subject of our illustration, is perhaps the finest, as it 

 is the most recently-introduced species. 



We copy the following remarks upon its characteristics from " The Floral 

 Magazine," to which we are also indebted for our illustration : — 



" A fierce and strong battle has been waged during the last season with 

 regard to the different allamandas in cultivation, not only as to which was 

 the best, but as to their identity. Into the merits of this controversy it is 

 not our intention to enter, especially as they are now in course of trial at 

 the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick. We have only to 

 bring under notice one which for its qualities is likely to be a general favor- 

 ite, and which has been exhibited by Mr. Ranley Tanton of the Epsom 

 Nurseries, to whom we are indebted for the following remarks : — 



" ' The plant was introduced from New Grenada, and is as distinct from 

 all other species as possible. With all the art 1 can bring to bear upon 

 their culture at the present time, Si/iottii, Catluirtica, Grandi/iofa, Parensis, 

 Aubletii, Nobilis, Hendersonii, are all deciduous and at rest : and in the 

 same stove I have the plant which has been in flower since the 5 th of 

 March last ; also some young ones, all in full, glossy, vigorous foliage, 

 and in full flower, as exhibited at the Floral Committee, South Ken- 

 sington, on Tuesday, Dec. 15. This, even of itself, is a sufficient guaranty 

 of its being a distinct species. There were upwards of a hundred blooms 

 on the plant exhibited on the above day : and at this season it is really a 

 desirable plant ; for the blooms come in now with their unusual color for 

 dinner-table decoration and for cut-flower work. We exhibited the other 

 day a small plant in sixty pots, bearing a flower from the cor)mb these 

 blossoms had previously dropped.' 



" We need add nothing to the above ; remarking only, that the deeper 

 color of the throat and the deep maroon-color of the outer side of the 

 (lower mark its distinctiveness." E. S. Rand, jfun. 



