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flowers are scarlet, tipped with green. The plant was pro- 

 duced from seeds sent home by Mr. Hartweg ; and it will 

 probably prove the hardiest of the species, as it was found 

 on a mountain called Totontepeqne, at the height of ten 

 thousand feet above the sea. As regards its cultivation, it 

 should neither be grown in a very rich soil, nor in a large 

 pot, for both these circumstances liave a tendency to pre- 

 vent its flowering freely. It thriA^cs in any good soil, and 

 is easily raised from cuttings in sand. {Bot. Reg.^ Dec.) 



PapilionacecB. 



villosa Lindl. Villous Zichya. A green-house climber ; growing four feet high ; with 

 scarlet-flowers ; appearing in spring; a native of Swan River; increased by cuttings or 

 seed ; grown in loam or sandy peat. Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 68. 



A showy and pretty species of the genus Zichya, sepa- 

 rated from the kennedyas, and now comprising seven spe- 

 cies. The present subject is of free growth, with ovate, 

 acute, obtuse, yellowish green, villous foliage, and corymbs 

 of scarlet flowers, which spring from the axils of the 

 leaves. This, together with the other species, is well 

 adapted for training on the pillars or rafters of the green- 

 house, or for covering an ornamental trellis in a pot. Noth- 

 ing would be prettier than a plant of each of the species 

 so trained. It is freely increased by cuttings, and the plants 

 should be potted in sandy loam and peat. They should be 

 kept in a frame in summer, facing the north, and be remov- 

 ed to the greenhouse in winter. {Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



Balsa7ni?idce(e. 



TROPiEOLUM 



aziireum Micrs. Blue Nasturtium. A green-house climber; growing ten feet high ; with 

 blue (lowers ; appearing in spring ; a native of Chili ; increased by cuttings ; grown in 

 good sandy loam and leaf mould. Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 65. 



Some time since Mr. Miers, in his travels in Chili, men- 

 tioned the existence of a blue nasturtium ; and Mr. Bridges 

 also saw it many years ago : but the statement has been 

 doubted. Very recently, however, the plant has been receiv- 

 ed alive, and the subject before us is a drawing from a plant 

 which flowered in the collection of Messrs Veitch and Son, 

 of Exeter, was exhibited before the July meeting of the 

 London Horticultural Society, and received the large silver 

 medal for its rarity and beauty. The plant is of a slender 

 twining growth, with five-parted leaves, and small azure 

 blue flowers, nearly regular in their formation ; these ap- 

 pear in abundance along the stem at the axils of the leaves. 



