figured in the Botanical Periodicals. 231 



some hybrids from the same parent, which are very different from C. 

 Wheel en; it appears that there will soon be as many hybrids in Calceolaria, 

 as there are in Geraniacese. . . . The whole, or the greater part, of the 

 herbaceous species will bear our winters in a warm border; and if a col- 

 lection of them were planted together, and a flower-pot placed over each 

 in severe frost or very wet weather, and single mats thrown over the pots, 

 they would thrive well, and make a fine appearance in spring and summer ; 

 and in such a winter as the present has been, many would stand well without 

 the least protection : when the weather is fine and mild, the pots and mats 

 must be all removed, to give them light and air, and even when frosty, if 

 the sun shines warm on them." (Mr. Sweet.) 



Calceolaria bicolor is figured in the Botanical Cabinet for March, t. 1783., 

 and of it Messrs. Loddiges say : — " It is necessary to keep it in an airy green- 

 house in winter." We notice this, because this pleasing species ;.eems 

 especially prone to die. 



STEMONDIA. 

 15989a chilensis Benth. Chilean ^ A or 1J au.o B Chile 1829. D l.p Lot. reg. 170 



Appended to the picture of this species is a valuable communication by 

 Mr. Bentham ; in which, besides a detailed generic character and detailed 

 description of the species mentioned (S. chilensis), he gives a synoptical 

 view of all the species of Stemodia hitherto known. These are thirty ; 

 and Mr. Bentham supplies specific characters and other particulars to at 

 least twenty of them, and indicates the sources whence he has obtained a 

 knowledge of the existence of the remainder. Seventeen are natives of 

 India and the contiguous isles ; and the remaining thirteen of Brazil, 

 Jamaica, and Mexico. S. chilensis is a hardy frame plant ; increasing by 

 suckers, which trail on the face of the soil, or by what is usually but 

 erroneously (although so in the Botanical Register) denominated " creep- 

 ing roots." Its angulated, downy, viscous stem, a foot or more high, bears 

 lanceolate, serrate, downy, clammy leaves, which are disposed usually in 

 threes, sometimes in pairs, and occasionally in fours. In the axil of the 

 upper whorls of these are produced whorls of purple (blue lilac) funnel- 

 shaped corollas ; which, from their tubes being short, and their limbs not 

 broad, are not extremely conspicuous. The plant, I conjecture, would 

 show its capabilities of magnitude and ornament more fully than it has 

 hitherto done in Britain, if planted in May in heath mould, in a shaded 

 moist northern border ; and I am led to this opinion, from the trailing 

 suckers and general aspect of the plant at Knight's, and from a remark by 

 Mr. Bentham, that S. sessilis Benth., another radicant species, inhabits a 

 marshy situation. Stemodia chilensis was raised in 1830, by Mr. Knight, 

 from seeds presented to him early in the spring of the same year by Robert 

 Bevan, Esq., banker, Bury St. Edmunds, who, very early in 1830, had 

 received them from Mr. Thomas Bridges, collector and vender of the pro- 

 ductions of nature, now residing at Valparaiso. With seeds of Stemodia 

 he also received and presented to Mr. Knight seeds of several other plants : 

 and from them Mr. Knight has succeeded in raising Cephalophora glauca ; 

 a species of Lobelia which, judging from its habit, is rather nearly allied 

 to Lobelia decurrens of Sweet's Flower-Garden ; a plant with somewhat 

 of the foliage of JTryngium ; a curious plant in Compositse ; and several 

 others. 



53. GRATl v OLA. 



tetragona Hook, square-slmd, & _AJ pr 1 au B Buen.Ayr. 1830. D p.l Bot. mag. 3134 



Agrees in habit, calyx, and corolla with Gratiola, but differs in having 

 four fertile stamens. Seeds of it were received at the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden from Buenos Ayres, by favour of Mr, Tweedie. Cultivated in the 

 stove, it produced its small but bright blossoms in August, 1831. (Bot. 

 Mag., Feb.) 



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