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portion surmounting the ovary about eight inches in length; the upper portion 

 a foot long, funnel-shaped, and dilated into a three-lobed limb. The wliole 



ARISTOLOCHIA GOLDIEANA. 



flower is of a pale green, with brown stripes, richly mottled inside with brown 

 and orange. 



'■'■ Dalechainpia RoesHana^ Roezl's Dalechampia (Bot. Mag., t. 5640). — Eu- 

 phorbiaceae. Amongst the many meritorious novelties of the past season, none 

 is more deserving the attention of cultivators than this beautiful Mexican plant. 

 It was first met witl; in Vera Cruz by Roezl ; and, according to the absurd 

 practice of naming plants after persons, it bears his name for a specific distinction. 

 Bougaiiivillea and the Euphorbia, in both of which the most highly-colored por- 

 tions are not the true flowers, but their appendages. There are two varieties of 

 Dalechampia Roezliatia, — one mth green, the other with pink bracts. It is the 

 last named that we especially recommend to the favorable consideration of cul- 

 tivators. One of the most interesting features in the numerous admirable exhi- 

 bitions of the plant by Mr. Bull of King's Road, Chelsea, during the past season, 

 was the perfection, in respect both of leafage and richness of floral coloring, of 

 the very small specimens that were brought forward. It does not need a vast 

 It is a member of the vast order Euphorbiacece, -s-nA belongs to that section of 

 the order the plants of which have broad cotyledons. The genus Dalechampia 

 is characterized by the presence of a single ovule in each compartment of the 

 ovary, by the anthers being erect in the bud, by the segments of the calyx in 

 the male flowers touching their margins, and by the two-leaved involucre enclos- 

 ing flowers of both sexes. These involucres, or (as they will, no doubt, be more 

 commonly called) 'bracts,' are, in the plant before us, of a bright pink color : the 

 male and female flowers which they enclose are yellow. As respects the pecu- 

 liarity of its decorative features, therefore, this plant may be classed with the 



