70 Floriciiltural and Botanical Notices, 



" Has been very lately introduced. . . . The flowers are very pretty, and 

 open a few at a time, in succession, each lasting but a short while." (Bot. 

 Cab., Dec.) 



CC. IPolevionidcece. 



459. G11.1A. « Ipomopsis. 



aggregata D. Don txtfteA-inflar. £Sor3jl S N.W. America 1822. SanJG s.I Sw.fi,gai\2.s.21S 

 G. aggregata D. Don in Eilinb. Phil. Journ., 1322 ; Cdntua aggregata Ph. ; Gilifl pufchiHIa Dou. ; 



Ipomopsis elegans Lindl. 

 This is the plant noticed by the name of G. pulchella in IX. 705. : G. aggregata is the name 



which proves to have been anteriorly applied. 



" When G. aggregata is in blossom, few plants of this family surpass it in 

 beauty. It is very nearly related to G. coronopifolia, but they are botanically 

 distinguishable. G. aggregata is figured from Mr. Knight's collection. (Brit. 

 Floiu. Garden., Dec.) 



CCIX. Gesneress. 



1698. GE'SNER.4. (Dr. Lindley has thus spelled the word. Gesn&na is more usual; but, perhaps, 



not so proper.) 

 15332a Sutton j Booth Capt. Sutton's &E)or2jl S Rio Janeiro 1833. C r.l Bot. reg. 1637 



" Introduced by Captain Sutton, who found it growing in a wood ; its 

 beautiful flowers attracted his attention, and induced him to dig up the plant 

 and bring it home. On his arrival in England, in March, 1833, he presented 

 the choice collection which he had formed of orchideous and other interesting 

 plants, to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., and Geo. Crocker Fox, Esq., Grove Hill, 

 Falmouth ; in the garden of the latter, G. Suttoni flowered in July, under the 

 judicious management of Mr. Friend. It bears some resemblance to G. bulbosa, 

 but is evidently distinct from that species, differing from it in foliage, and its 

 flowers are larger, and have a broader outstretched upper lip." ( Wm. Beattie 

 Booth, A.L.S., who has described, drawn, and named the giant, as published 

 in the Bot. Reg., Dec): 



CCXVII. Big?ionvdceas. Bignonia venusta. Of this superb climber two most 

 striking specimens, abounding in clusters of brilliant orange-coloured tubular 

 blossoms, 2iin. long, were sent us on Jan. 2. 1834, from the stove of Robert 

 Trevor, Esq. of Tingrith, near Woburn, by his excellent gardener, Mr. George 

 Phillips. This charming plant was first figured in the Botanical Register for 

 Jan. 1818, Hi. 249., and from a plant which had flowered in Lord Liverpool's 

 residence at Coombe Wood. At the date mentioned the plant was also in 

 the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co., Fulham, and that of Mr. Colvill, 

 Chelsea. Now it is, we trust, more common ; for its ready growth, and 

 extreme beauty when in blossom, render it, at least one of, the most desirable 

 of stove climbing plants. We have been favoured by Mr, Phillips with the 

 following facts on his practice in the culture of it : — 



" B. venusta appears to like free scope for its roots. We have here two 

 flowering plants, which are planted in the back corners of the bark bed, in 

 boxes 1 ft. square and 5 ft. deep, formed of perforated boards, and filled with 

 a mixture of sandy loam and leaf mould. The roots have passed out of the 

 boxes into the decayed bark of the bark bed, in which there is always a gentle 

 heat, and in which they grow and spread very freely. We water liberally with 

 the drainings from the hot-beds and rain water. The plants are trained per- 

 pendicular with a single stem, now 3 in. in girth, to the points where they 

 touch the rafter; and to this point the branches, when they have done 

 flowering, are always cut back, while at the same time the bark bed is reno- 

 vated and the roots reduced. When the grape vines are in this house we 

 train the bignonia along two wires close under the rafters, over the path, a foot 

 from the glass. When the grape vines are taken, out we lead the shoots of 

 the bignonia down the rafters ; and, in its flowering season, it may be said to 

 cover the whole house; and it has a most splendid appearance. In 1831, 

 1832, the B. venusta began flowering on Oct. 3. ; in 1833, two or three weeks 

 later. It continues blossoming between three and four months, and some of 

 the finest specimens have upwards of 70 flowers in a corymb. A branch 

 introduced into the green-house has flowered sparingly. Cuttings of the young 

 shoots when about 9 in. long will strike root freely in a hot-bed," 



