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Cinchonaceoi. 



HI>i\DSA4 Benth. 



violicea Bcnth. A greenlioiiae plant ; growing three feet high ; with blue flowers ; ap- 

 pearing in April and May ; increasod by cuttings ; a native of South Brazil. Bot. Reg. t. 40, 



" Hiiids«« violacea is one of the finest things of recent 

 importation. Tlie genns is nearly alHed to Rondeletia, 

 having a similar foHage and habit of flowering. This 

 species forms a small shrub, with large, slightly pubescent 

 foliage, and terminal heads or corymbs of large flowers, 

 unsurpassed in beauty by blue flowering shrubs." Messrs. 

 Veitcli received it from Brazil, and first exhibited the plant 

 at the exhibition of the Horticultural Society in May last, 

 when it was awarded a large silver medal. It is a most 

 desirable greenhouse plant. Mr. Bentham has referred 

 Rondeletia longiflora to the genus Hindsia, and it is now 

 called H. longiflora. {Bot. Beg., Aug.) 



PE'NTAS (" From pentas, 'a number five,' in allusion to the parts of the flower being in 

 fives instead of fours.") Bentham. 

 c4inea Benth. Flesh colored Pentas. A greenhouse plant; growing two feet high ; with 

 flesh colored flowers ; appearing in September ; increased by cuttings ; a native of Africa. 

 Bot. Reg. 1844, t 32. 



A rather neat and pretty soft wooded shrub, with strongly 

 furrowed leaves, and terminal cymes of delicate flesh color- 

 ed flowers. Several specimens of it were exhibited by Mr. 

 Glendenning and other nurserymen at the early exhibitions, 

 last spring, of the Horticultural Society, but the drawing 

 was taken from a plant in the possession of Messrs. Rolli- 

 son. The foliage is not very ornamental, but the dense 

 heads of pale, rosy colored flowers render it a good acquisi- 

 tion. It will grow in any good soil, and is readily increased 

 by cuttings. {^Bot. Beg., June.) 



Cestrdcece. 



HABROTHA'MiNUS (so named from ^oj/ and sAoot, in allusion to the beauty of the species.) 

 elegans Lindl. Elegant Habrolliamnus. A greenhouse plant; growing two feet high; 

 with crimson fluwers ; appearing in January and February; increased by cuttings ; a native 

 of Mexico. Bot. Keg. t. 43, 1844. 



"The beauty of Habrothamnus fasciculatus is so strik- 

 ing, that attention is strongly drawn to the discovery of 

 other species m Mexico : and the Belgians have succeeded 

 in adding the present species. The drawing was made 

 from specimens received from Mr. Van Houtte, of Ghent, 

 in January last, in whose collection of new plants it first 

 flowered. It forms a neat shrub, with ovate, lanceolate, 

 accumiaate foliage, the branches terminated by a head or 



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