254 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



tinged with blush, and of delicious fragrance. Native of 

 Nepaul. Raised from seed by Mr. Pince. Similar to Lucu- 

 lia gratissima, op. id ; No. 3046. — J. L. R. 



HI NDSIA violAcea. 



A genus constituted by Mr. Bentham, and intended to in- 

 clude Rondeletia longiflora (Chamioso). Dedicated to R. B. 

 Hinds, Esq., R. N., a gentleman charged with the publica- 

 tion of the collections in Natural History made on the survey- 

 ing voyage of Sir Edward Belcher in the Pacific. A plant 

 of great beauty with cymes of handsome violet-purple, mon- 

 opetatous, five-limbed corols, and foliage, resembling that of 

 Justicia ; a native of the Organ Mountins, Brazil : requiring 

 in culture the heat of the stove. — /. L. R. 



MalvdcecB. 



SI'DA grav^olens Roxb. 



"A handsome species with soft, pale green foliage, and 

 yellow flowers, with a deep blood red eye." Detected grow- 

 ing wild in Jamaica by Mr. Pendie, though a native also of 

 East Indies, and perhaps common to the tropics of both the 

 old and new world. — /. L. R. 



HcemodoracecB. 



BARBACE^NIA SQuam^ta. 



A singular plant with a stout dichotomous stem, covered 

 with the scale-like remains of flower leaves; the perfect 

 leaves grow exclusively on the tips of the branches ; and are 

 from four to six inches long, resembling in miniature those of 

 some Yucca ; the flowers are supported on scapes springing 

 from among the terminal leaves, of a fine orange red color, 

 and altogether exceedingly pretty, we should think, from the 

 plate, (Tab. 4136). Only twelve species had been hitherto 

 known, and these, as Martins tells us, were confined between 

 14° and 23° of southern latitude in the new world, delight- 

 ing in mountainous situations, on micaceous schist rocks in 

 exposed dry situations, at elevations of from 1,000 to 5,500 

 feet. The present seems to be distinct, and was sent from 

 the Organ Mountains by Mr. Wm. Lobb, in 1841. {Pax- 

 ton's Mag. of Bot.)—J. L. R. 



PassiJiordccB. 



DISETHMA Cfromdis double, and semma a crown ; Gr). 

 ^urantia De Cand. 



