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in the Gardens of the Agri-Horticultural Society. A plant 

 under the same name, but very distinct from this, in the 

 Calcutta Botanical Gardens, bears pure white flowers with a 

 thick, dark, linear, ray-like mark in the centre ; not of much 

 beauty. 



6. H. Simmondsii. A species in the Agri-Horticultural Society's 

 Gardens. 



7. H. macrophylla. Native of Java ; accounted a very noble 

 species ; has large, very thick, roundish-oval, three-nerved leaves 

 A plant or two is to be met with in the Calcutta Botanical 

 Gardens, but it thrives very indifferently there, and is apt to 

 die off. 



8. H. orbiculata. Native of Prome and Java : specimens in 

 the Calcutta Botanical Gardens ; seem to thrive moderately well 

 there. 



9. H. longifolia. A curious narrow linear-leaved species, met 

 with in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, but not blossomed there 

 I believe. 



10. H. coriacea. A native of Java, described in Curtis as '" a 

 climbing shrub with the habit of H. carnosa, and bearing umbels 

 of yellowish flowers, having a white coronet with dark brown eye." 

 The sharp-pointed feather-nerved leaf, as figured in Curtis, shows 

 it to be a distinct plant from that issued under the same name 

 from the Gardens of the Agri-Horticultural Society. 



11. H. viridiflora. Native of this country; a rambling mem- 

 branaceous-leaved plant with insignificant flowers. A mere 

 weed. 



3 2. H. imperialis. Native of the Moluccas ; introduced from 

 Madras, where it is said to thrive well in Mr. Grote's garden. 

 A very handsome plant, perhaps the finest of the whole genus, 

 with great smooth, fleshy, oval leaves ; described as bearing 

 flowers of a fine violet colour, protruding from their centre a 

 staminal crown of yellowish white, and emitting a delightful 

 fragrance. 



13. H. variegata. Has its leaves spotted with silver white, 

 and bears flesh-coloured fragrant flowers; has been exhibited 

 at the Calcutta Shows. 



Ceropegia. 

 C. Gardner!!. A very interesting, slender-stemmed, twining 



