figured in the London Flor. and Bot. Magazines. 341 



form and color to be distinctly seen." The specimens from 

 which the drawing was taken, were received from the garden of 

 Robert Mangles, Esq. at Sunning Hill, in the com-se of the last 

 summer. {Bot. Reg., June.) 



Silendcem. 



iY'CHNIS {Lychnis, a lamp ; said to have derived its name from !hh, because the cottony leaves of 

 some species were employed as wicks fo lamps.) 

 Biingertrta Fischer MSS. Biinge's Lychnis. A handsome frame plant ; growing a foot or more in 

 heinht ; (lowers of a brilliant scarlet ; appearing in August ; introduced to England last seajon from 

 Petersburg; propagated from cuttings. Bot. l<eg.,lStj4. 

 Stinonrjme : Agrostemma Bungeann Don in S-.oeet's Brit. Flow. Gard. t 317. 



" A very beautiful species." The flowers are single, and of 

 a beautiful scarlet; the petals with several deep incisions upon 

 their margin: flowers solitary: leaves ovate, lanceolate, hairy. 

 In England it is not quite hardy, suffering both from the dryness 

 and the coldness of the climate: a cool green-house suits it best. 

 Probably in our climate it wotdd require similar treatment. It 

 should be fully exposed to the light, or the brilliancy of the flow- 

 ers becomes much impaired. It is propagated freely by cuttings. 

 The drawing was made from the garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, in August, 1835. [Bot. Reg., June.) 



Dicotyledonous, Monopetalous, Plants. 

 Cinchonkcedd. 



MANE'TTI^ (So called after Xavier 3Innetti,a professor of Botany at Florence,who published a work 

 on Italian Fruit Trees, in 1751.) 

 cordifdiia De Cand. llenrt-lenved Manettia. A beautiful hot-house climber ; running four or five 

 feet high ; with flowers of a scarlet color ; appearing in June; a native of Brazil; propagated by 

 cuttings. Bot. Reg. 1866. 



Described as follows: — stem herbaceous, twining : leaves 

 ovate, cordate at the base, and acute: peduncles axillary, one- 

 flowered. This species is a beauiiful hot-house climber, with 

 scarlet, tubular, trumpet-shaped flowers, somewhat pendant, and 

 appearing in great profusion in the month of June. It is a valua- 

 ble addition to the stove, and should enrich every collection. It 

 is " a native of hedges and copses and the skirts of forests in Bra- 

 zil, near Villarica, and elsewhere in the Province of the Mines, 

 where it is accounted a potent medicine in cases of dropsy and 

 dysentery." It is easily grown from cuttings. [Bot. Reg., 

 June.) 



Portuldcece. 



We have, at this time, a patch or two of Calendrinia specio- 

 sa, displaying its brilliant blossoms in the sandiest and poorest 

 soil of our flower border. About mid-day, whenever the sky is 

 clear, and the sun shines with full force, the corollas expand and 

 the flowers are one dense mass of beautiful crimson, reposing on 

 the dark green and velvety fohage of the plant. In dull weather, 

 and also in the morning and evening of every day, the blossoms 



