348 Floricultaral and Botanical Notices, 



.... When treated as a hardy green-house plant, it thrives vigorously ; and its 



" flower-heads " are, in spring, put forth " in abundance." P. Aypericina Cun. 



has been raised, in the Kew Garden, from seeds collected by Mr. Wm. Baxter. 



(Bot. Mag., June.) 



LXXVI1. heguminbscB. 



COI/VT'LLE/f Bojer. (The late Sir Charles Colville, Governor of the Mauritius.) 10. 1. Sp. 1 — 

 racembsa Bojer grand-racemed } □ spl 45 S Madagascar ... S p.l Bot. mag. 3325, 3326 

 Has not yet been introduced to Britain, i It " is probably a native of the east coast of Africa ; but 

 was only seen by Professor Bojer, in 1824, in the Bay of Bombatoe, on the western coast of 

 Madagascar, where a single tree was cultivated by the inhabitants. That indefatigable naturalist 

 obtained one, which he took to the Mauritius, where it has perfectly succeeded; and we may 

 soon expect to add this most ornamental plant to the stoves of our own country. Its flowering 

 season in the Mauritius is April and May." 



A splendid species of tree, from 40 ft, to 50 ft. high, with the general aspect 

 of PoinciaMffl regia. Branches very long. Leaves alternate ; bipinnate, with 

 twenty to thirty pairs ; oblong-oval in their outline, 3 ft, long. Racemes from 

 four to twelve, 1^ ft. long; partly arising from the apex of the branches, and 

 partly from the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers crowded. Corollas bright 

 scarlet, rather large. Stamens twice the length of the corolla. (Bot. Mag., 

 June.) 



Two Varieties of the dark-corollaed Kennedys, of which a notice is quoted, from the Horticultural 

 Journal, into our p. 285. " Messrs. Buchanan and Co., Camnerwell, have a new Kennedya in 

 bloom, which is evidently a variety of the one we figured last month [May : see our p. 285. J. . . . 

 The foliage differs in some degree from [that of] the one raised at Mitcham, and now at the 

 "Epsom Nursery ; but the flowers are very similar." (Page 2. of the cover of the Horticultural 

 Journal and Florist's Register for June, 1834.) As we have not seen a previous mention of a 

 kind raised at Mitcham, we suppose this last to be also a variety of, and distinct from, the one Qf 

 which an account is quoted in our p. 285. 



MONOPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CLXXV. Lobelikcese, 



509. LOBE N L7^. [Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 242 



41026 polyphylla Hook. S; Arnott many-lvd. ^ _AJ or 4» s D.P Valparaiso 18^9. D lt.r 

 " This, mucronata [see IX. 106.], and Tilpa, from the same country, are very nearly allied ; being 

 found to differ chiefly in the proportionate length of the tube of the corolla, the degreeofdeve- 

 lopement of the bracteas, and in the presence or absence of downiness on the stem and leaves. 

 L. polyphylla has the largest bracteas, the shortest tube to the corolla, and is almost wholly gla- 

 brous." — D. Don. 



A species " highly ornamental when grown in perfection. A plant [of it] 

 which flowered at Boyton [in the garden of A. B. Lambert, Esq.], in the open 

 border, in 1832, had several stems nearly 6 ft. high, with the racemes more 

 than 1 ft. long. It thrives best in a light rich soil, and is increased by division 

 or by seeds." The figure is copied from a weakly plant, which flowered, in 

 Sept. 1833, in the nursery of Messrs. Allen and Rogers. The corolla is 

 " scarcely an inch long, of a dark purple " colour. (The Brit. Flower-Gard., 

 June.) 



CC. YolemoniaceoB. 



499. GI'LI^. 



achMefij/d//a Benth. Milfoil-lfd. O or If au.d P California 1833. S co Bot. reg. 168! 



Notice of this species is supplied in IX. 705. " It resembles G, capitata 

 in its foliage, and in the arrangement of its flowers ; but its appearance 

 [herbage] is much more green, and its habit is dwarfish. The flowers, too, are 

 purple, instead of sky-blue." The corollas are, besides, larger; and the heads 

 of flowers seem larger and less compact. " It will grow in any kind of soil, 

 and produces seeds in abundance ; so that it will soon become as common as 

 G. capitata itself." (Bot. Reg., June.) 



CCXI. Scrophula?'ine£B. 



65. CALCEOLA v RIA 27993 purpurea. 



3 picta D. Don painted-coro/laed £ _AJ or 1 su W.P Eng. Garden 1832 ? D lt.r Sw.fl.gar.2.s.244 



" An accidental variety of C. purpurea ; first raised, as we have been 

 informed, by Mr. Wheeler, nurseryman, Gloucester. It differs from C. pur- 

 purea in nothing but colour, and the greener hue of the whole herbage. Its 

 copious delicate white blossoms [corollas], marked with a broad purple band, 

 render it an agreeable addition to the already numerous cultivated varieties of 

 this genus. C. purpurea 3 picta requires a light rich soil, and can be increased 



