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thinks the present different from every species j'et published. Professor 

 Lindley, in devising the specific name, has been pleased to swell the cata- 

 logue of botanical compliments already paid to Mr. Lambert ; his un- 

 bounded liberality, however, certainly entitles him to every one of them. 

 P. Lamberti«M« is an ornamental stove plant. — Potentilla *argiita. An 

 upright-stemmed, hardy, perennial species, blooming in July, producing 

 fine large foliage and a dense panicle of yellowish white fair-sized flowers. 

 This, in foliage and inflorescence, is a fine plant, needing only the colour 

 of P. formosa or P. atrosanguinea to render it very ornamental. It would 

 be an eligible stock for Mr. Dennis, or some other able cultivator, to at- 

 tempt the raising of hybrids from. — Justlci« ^venusta^ Beautiful Justicia. 

 Brought, under this name, to England by Dr. Wallich. A lovely species, 

 with a large and spreading panicle of numerous smallish deep purple 

 flowers. Native of the Pundua Mountains in Bengal* A stove plant, bloom- 

 ing in September. — Lophospermum (from lophos, a crest, and sperma, a 

 seed ; the seeds being crested or winged) erubescens (from erubesco, to grow 

 red, or to blush). Blushing Lophospermum. A most beautiful shrubby 

 Mexican climber, which will thrive perfectly and flower abundantly in 

 sunny sheltered aspects in the open ah- during summer. It may be rapidly 

 multiplied, as cuttings planted in sand and placed in a frame or warm green- 

 house strike root readily. The lophospermum, like the georgina, is from 

 Mexico, and like the georgina it will not endure frost ; but, as soon as the 

 frosty nights of spring are all past, let it be instantly turned out, and its 

 vigorous and rapid growth will render it, by the middle of autumn, or 

 perhaps before, a bushy branchy vine, exhibiting along its branches, espe- 

 cially towards their extremity, festoons and garlands of large, rosy, trumpet- 

 shaped flowers. This style of blooming will be continued till the destruc- 

 tion of the plant by autumnal frost. The quantity of flowers produced 

 will be increased, and their colour improved, by inserting the plants into 

 calcareous or other poor soil in preference to that more indulgent, as highly 

 manured soil induces a redundance of shoots and foliage, and delays the 

 formation of flowers. — Sphacele*campanulata. A hardy green-house plant, 

 or perhaps a frame plant, from ChUe, with pretty pale blue blossoms. — 

 Grevillea concinna. A green-house species from the south-western coast of 

 New Holland, having rose-coloured blossoms (calyces). It is, notwith- 

 standing Prof. Lindley's identification, very distinct from G. concinna, 

 being the G. Cunninghamz'i of Broivn^s Supplement, 



No. XII. for February, contains 

 1384 to I39L — Browallia *grandifl6ra. Large-flowered Browallia | So" 

 laneag, A beautiful little plant, apparently annual, and perhaps to be pre- 

 served ,by cuttings ; at least this is to be hoped, as it has not yet yielded 

 seed in this country. Native of Yazo, in Peru, found there by Mr. Cruick- 

 shanks, who presented seed of it to the Horticultural Society, in whose 

 garden it flowered from July to November last. Plants in the open ground 

 suffered so much from the constant rain and gloom, that they scarcely 

 opened their flowers ; but the individuals in the green-house were covered 

 with a constant succession of blossoms, producing a very pleasing effect 

 by their changeable hues, varying from pale pure blue to white, with a deep 

 yellow eye. — Jnemone *«itif61ia. Vine-leaved Anemone ; i^anunculacese. 

 An ornamental whitish-flowered plant of Nipal, where it grows in all the 

 forests of the great valley and surrounding mountains, delighting in the 

 most shady, retired, and moist situations in the vicinity of rills and torrents. 

 Found also in Kamoon. Blossoms in August and September. A frame 

 plant. — Cuphea *Llave«, 'Lsl LX&ye's Mexican two-petaled Cuphea; Sali- 

 carise. An interesting frame herbaceous plant, stems numerous, Ia ft. high; 

 petals deep purple. Introduced by Mr. Ackermann, who presented its seeds 

 to Mr. Tate, in whose nursery it flowered in August last. — Potentilla 



