238 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



are in Europe. It is an extremely showy plant ; and is admirably suited for 



being trained to trelliswork or over a veranda. Mr. Little, nurseryman, 



King's Road, Chelsea, has cultivated it for some years as an ornamental 



plant ; and he finds it to be quite as hardy, and to require the same treatment, 



as the kidneybean. Its seeds ripen in the open air. (The Brit. Flow.-Gard., 



April.) 



CLVII. i?<?goMiaceae. 



2654. BEGCrNM. r_Bot. reg. 1668 



f28661 heraclci/blia Schlecht. & Cham. Heracleum-lfd. & .Al or 2 all sea Ro Mexico 1831. O r.m 

 B. radiata Graham in Edin. New Phil. Journ. July, 1833. 



It is a very free-growing hot-house plant, producing its rosy flowers in 

 every month of the year. All that it demands at the hands of the cultivator 

 are, heat, moisture, and a full exposure to light. If kept too much in the 

 shade, the flowers lose the bright rosy tint which is natural to them, and with 

 it their beauty. Some of the leaves produced by this species are 7 in. across. 

 Plants of it are in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, the London Horticultural 

 Society's garden, and in other gardens. (Bot. Reg., April.) 



Dicotyledonous Monopetalous Plants. 



CXC. Cinckonkceas. 



389. M ANE'TTI^. [Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 233 



glabra Cham. & Schlecht. smooth-surfaced $_\ |or5?au.d S Buenos Ayres 1831. C p.l 



M. cordifblia Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3202., Gard. Mag. 9. 107. 



" It is, doubtless, the M. glabra of Chamisso and Schlechtendal; who enumerate, in the Linntza, 



several other nearly related species, differing chiefly in the degree of pubescence, and in the 



proportions of the calycine segments. — D. Don. 



This is an exceedingly elegant plant : its delicate and graceful form, and its 

 long (li in.), tubular, scarlet corollas, contrasted with its broad deep green 

 leaves, render it one of the most beautiful objects that can well be conceived. 

 Mr. Neill of Canonmills, near Edinburgh, has raised and possesses this plant. 

 It thrives in soil composed of peat and loam. " It will doubtless succeed 

 well in the open border during summer." (The Brit. Flow.-Gard., April.) 



CXCVI. Kpocynece. 



ALY'XI A R. Br. In the Bot. Mag. for April, this genus is much elucidated. Mr. Allan 



Cunningham has supplied the distinctive characters, synonymes, and habitats of eleven species. 

 A. actinophylla Cun., spicata R. Br., tetragbna R. Br., stellata R. Sj S., /aurina Gaudichaud, 

 obtusifulia R. # S., scandens R. 8; S., Gynopbgon R. fy S , rfaphnoldes Cun., ruscifblia R. Br., 

 iuxifblia R. Br. Dr. Hooker has added to these the names of six other species, which are also 

 known ; namely, A. odorata Wall., stellata R. Br., calophylla Wall., lbcida Wall., olivaeformis, 

 and Torreszarea. This enumeration is accompanied by a figure of A. aaphnoldes Cun., and one 

 of A. ruscifblia R. Br. ; and detailed descriptions, by Mr. Cunningham, of these two species. 

 From these descriptions, and those in the enumeration, we revise the species given in Hort. Brit. 

 p. 67. and 580. 

 532. ALY'XIA. 



4373. Gynopbgon R. §• S. bearded-styled fl| | or 5 ... W Norfolk Island 1831. C p.l 



Gynopbgon Alyxia Forster, Alyxia Forsterz Cun. MSS. 1830, Loudon's Hort. Brit. No. 28594. 



4374 (faphnuides Cun. Daphne-like «( j fra? 5? W Norfolk I. 1831. C p.l Bot. mag. 3313 



4374a ruscifblia R. Br. Butcher's broom-lfd.it i I fra 5 au.n W N. Holl. 1820. C p.l Bot. mag. 3312 

 A. Richardsbnz Swt., Loudon's Hort. Brit. No. 4373. ; Gynopbgon pugioniformis Cun. MSS. 1828; 



Alyxia pugionif6rmis Cun., Loudon's Hort. Brit. No. 28595. 

 More of the species enumerated above may be extant, alive, in British collections; but it is not 

 stated that more than the three which we have tabulated are. 



The alyxias are not attractive-looking shrubs; but their foliage is pleasing: 

 and the leaves are, in several of the species, disposed four in a whorl ; the 

 flowers, small and white, are, in A. ruscifolia, " exceedingly fragrant, smelling 

 like jasmine; " and, it appears, in some other species as well. (Bot. Mag., 

 April.) 



537. JJCHPTES. 



stellaris Lindl. stat-ei/ed-corollaed £_ □ or 10 ? au Ro.Y Rio Janeiro 1831. R p.l Bot. reg. 1664 

 Its characters approach nearly to those of E. puWscens Willd. 



A tender, stove, climbing plant, introduced by the Hon. Robert Gordon to 

 the Horticultural Society. In the month of August, its flowers [which are 

 represented as produced in corymbose clusters, each of about fourteen flowers, 

 and these severally wider, in the spread of the limb, than a shilling is broad] 

 perfume the part of the hot-house in which it is placed with a delightful smell 

 of primroses We have named it with reference to the coloured eye of 



