450 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



singly at the axils of the leaves. It has been treated as a 

 greenhouse plant, shading it in summer, and keeping it rather 

 dry in winter ; it should also be grown in small pots, or the 

 plants make too much foliage. {Bot. Reg. March.) 

 Acanthdcem. 



LANKESTE^RM 



parvifldra Lindl. Small flowered Lankesteria. A stove plant ; with yellow flowers ; appearing 

 in winter; a native of South Africa; increased by cuttings; cultivated in sandy peat and loam. 

 Bot. Reg. 1846. pi. 12. 



A rather interesting plant, requiring, in England, the warmth 

 of the stove, where it blooms freely, producing heads of pretty 

 bright yellow flowers. It may be grown in the greenhouse in 

 summer, and removed to the stove in autumn, where it will 

 continue to flower for some months : increased freely from cut- 

 tings. (^Bot. Reg. January.) 



RUE'LLIJ 



lilacina i/ooA-cr Lilac-flowered Ruellia. A stove shrub ; growing three feet high; with lilac 

 flowers; appearing in summer; a native of Guiana; increased by cuttings; cultivated in loam, 

 peat and sar.d. Bot. Reg. 1S46, pi. 13. 



" A charming shrub," with panicled spikes of handsome hlac 

 flowers, which are abundantly produced during summer. It 

 requires the same temperature as the R. formosa, and some- 

 what similar treatment ; keep them in a warm and humid at- 

 mosphere during spring, and then remove them to the green- 

 house, when they will flower for a long time ; afterwards, they 

 should receive less supplies of water, and be kept in a dormant 

 state till spring. (^Bot. Reg. March.) 

 CompositcB. 



MULGE'DIUM 



machorizon Roijlo Large-rooted Mulgede. A hardy perennial plant ; growing a few inches high.; 

 with blue flowers; appearing in September and October ; a nalive of Cashmere; increased by seeds ; 

 cultivated in any good soil. Bot. Reg. 184ti, pi. 7. 



"A charming perennial, with numerous branching stems 

 two feet long, and scarcely rising more than a few inches high. 

 For decorating rock work, it is misurpassed among autumn 

 perennials." The flowers have very much the appearance of 

 the common succory, but the dwarf habit of the plant and 

 the profusion of bloom render it a fine object. It should be 

 planted in a dry situation, and protected in winter by a cov- 

 ering of leaves. Readily increased by seeds. {^Bot. Reg. 

 March.) 



Lythj'dcecB. 



CirPIIEA 



strigilWsaiJfn^A. Coarse haired Cuphca. A greenhouse shrub ; growing two feet high; with 

 yellow and scarlet flowers; appearing in October ; a native of Mexico; increased by cuttings ; cul- 

 tivated in sandy peat and loam. Cot. Reg. lS4t), pi. 14. 



A pretty greenhouse shrub, with ovate lanceolate leaves, 



