33S Floj'iciiltural and Botanical Notices, c5*c, 



from the base into a wide throat, which has a spreading 

 limb an inch and a half across." For covering a rafter, 

 or a column of a stove, or for training over a circular trellis, 

 it is a fine object. When once established in the ground, it 

 " blossoms throughout the summer with the greatest prodi- 

 gality.'"' The plants grow finely in sandy loam and heath 

 mould, and it may be freely propagated by cuttings. It 

 would be a fine addition to our greenhouse climbers. {Bot. 

 Reg. May.) 



ConvolviddcecB. 



IPOM^'A 



cymosa Choisy. The white cluster Ipomsea. A stove climber; growing ten feet high, 

 with while flowers ; appearing in December ; a native of Asia ; increased by cuttings. Bot. 

 Reg. 1843, t. 24. 



No less than thirteen different names are enumerated as 

 synonyms according to M. Choisy; and Dr. Lindly says 

 " it must be confessed that the botanists who have invented 

 them have much to answer for." In justification, however, 

 it is stated to be, like other Ipomseas, variable in its appear- 

 ance. It is a perennial of " great beauty, flowering most 

 profusely ; the blossoms appear in axillary clusters, and 

 their snow-while yellow-eyed corols, show to great advan- 

 tage resting upon a deep green shining foliage. The plant 

 is increased by cuttings, and grown in any good soil. {Bot. 

 Reg. May.) 



Gesnerdcea. 



ACHl'MENES 



grandiflora Pazt. Large flowered Achimenes A greenhouse plant ; growing a foot high ; 

 with rose-colored flowers ; appearing in summer; a native of Mexico; increased by cuttings 

 and offsetts ; grown in loam and loaf mould. I'ax. Mag. Bot. Vol. X. p. 145. 



The species of achimenes bid fair to rival in beauty any 

 other tribe of plants. We have now the coccinea, pedun- 

 culala, rosea, longiflora, and multiflora, and this increases 

 the number to six. all but the first of which have been in- 

 troduced within a few years. E. grandiflora is a fine com- 

 panion to the E. longiflora ; its flowers are not quite so 

 large ; but they are of a " rich and brilliant color, essentially 

 diflferent from any thing else of the kind we yet possess." 

 The foliage is larger than the longiflora. It is easily culti- 

 vated, requiring a luitritive soil composed of fresh loam and 

 a large proportion of leaf mould : and it must not be stinted 

 for pot room. It should be started early in a little bottom 

 heat, and it will then bloom finely in the greenhouse' all 

 summer. For ornamental objects in the greenhouse in 

 summer, all the species of achimenes are highly valuable, 

 and deserving of extensive growth. {Pax. Mag. Bot. Aug.) 



