supplementary to E7ic. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 487 



" We are indebted to Mr, Wheeler, nurseryman, Warnainster, Wilts, 

 for the opportunity of giving a figure of this fine variety, raised by him 

 from Chilean seeds, received from Mr. Hugh Cuming. We had the plea- 

 sure of seeing the plant when in full flower, and we have seldom witnessed 

 any thing so beautiful : the large spreading panicles, with its profusion of 

 blossoms of various shades of purple, contrasted with the dark green leaves 

 and glossy stem, had a pretty effect. Like the other variety, this is also 

 perennial ; and will doubtless succeed very well in the open border during 

 the summer months." (Z). Don in The British Flower-Gardeny July.) 



Scrophuldrince. ^ Four stamens, all bearing anthers. 



1783. MI'MULUS. 



»-6seus Liiidl. rosy-flwd. ^ _AJ or 1 jl.au Ro N. California 1831. C p.l Bot. reg. 1591 



A beautiful species, sent by Mr. Douglas to the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety, which at present does not possess very many plants of it. " It is found 

 rather difficult to manage, or else the right mode of treating it has not yet 

 been applied ; for the plants that were kept in the open border, during the 

 summer, by no means answered the expectations that had been enter- 

 tained of it. . . . We suspect that it will grow better in a green-house 

 than in the open air ; just as is the case with the beautiful M. glutinosus 

 W., from the same country. The plants in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society have been potted in loam and leaf mould, and have been kept 

 under glass: they are succeeding much better this season than they did 

 the last. {Bot. Reg., June.), 



CCXITL Solmiecs. § Seeds in a eajisule.. 



486. T^lCOTIA'^NA. 



Tpirska Lindl. Persian O or 3 s.o W.G Persia 1831. S l.t Bot reg. 1592 



The species which produces the far-famed tobacco of Shiraz : the com- 

 mon Virginian tobacco is also cultivated in Persia ; but from the N. per- 

 sica it is that tobacco of the finest qualit}' is manufactured. " Seeds of it 

 were brought from Persia by Sir Henry Willock, upon his return from 

 his late residence at the court of Ispahan ; and communicated to the 

 Horticultural Society, in whose garden it blossomed in September and 

 October last. It is rather a handsome annual ; exhaling a faint but 

 pleasant odour in the evening, at which time its flowers are in perfection. 

 In the Hort. Trans., new series, vol. i. p. 205., there is, by Dr. Riach, a 

 full account of the Persians' method of manufacturing this tobacco. It 

 appears to require a dark rich soil, and most abundant watering during all 

 the season of heat." {Bot. Reg., June.) 

 longiflbra Cav. long-tubed O or 3 jl.s W Buenos Ayres 1831. Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 196 



The tube of the corolla in this species is " 4 in. or 5 in. long j the limb 

 spreading, deeply 5-lobed [the tips of the five lobes would reach the cir- 

 cumference of a crown piece]; plaited j, above of a clear white j un- 

 derneath greenish, afterwards becoming of a dingy purple This 



curious species of tobacco forms another interesting addition to the flower- 

 border, its long and slender-tubed blossoms being produced in great 

 abundance, and for several months in succession. The singular pheno- 

 menon, common to many white and dingy flowers, of expanding only at 

 night, or in cloudy weather, occurs also in this plant." (British Flower- 

 Garden, June.) 



3474, NIEREMBE'RGi^J. 



phoenlcea D. X)o« purp]e-J!wd. £ ^ or 3 jn.o P Uraguav 1831. C p.l- Sw. fl. gan 2. s. 193 

 The SalpigKssis integrif61ia of Dr. Hooker, Bot. Mag., 3113., Hort. Brit., No. 29216. 



A highly valuable addition to the stock of showy-flowered easily cul- 

 tivated plants with which our gardens are now enriched. What Petunia 

 nyctaginiflora is in its white blossoms, this plant is in its blossoms of a rich 

 rosy purple or almost crimson colour. The flowers are, perhaps, not quite 

 so large as those of P. nyctaginiflora ; but they are still large, and are 



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