supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 75 



variety of that species." Tliis is doubtless a very desirable kind. 

 It flowers for a considerable length of time. Its corolla is " of 

 a brilliant blue-purple above, paler and redder beneath ; the eye 

 or centre yellow ; the margin minutely and irregularly crenated," 

 {Bat. Mag., Jan.) 



CCXI. Scrophularhiece. 



3468. LOPHOSPE'RMUM D. Do?z. Sp. 3.— PSw. fl. gar. 2. s. 250 



atrosanguineum Zuccarini dark-red-coro//(ierf § I or 10 jn.o D.P Mexico 1833. C p.l 



Synonymes : Rhodochiton volubile Zaccaj-zw, in 1829; LophospiJrmum atrosanguineum ZaccanW, 

 in 1832; LophospiJrmum RhodochUon D. Don, in 1834. 



Plants of this showy-flowered climbing species were raised, in 

 182^8, in the Munich Garden, from seeds brought from Mexico 

 by Baron Karwinski. M. Zuccarini sent, in 1829, the species 

 to several gardens under the name Rhodochiton volubile, which 

 he had applied to it. His subsequent examination convinced 

 him that the species is one of the genus Lophospermum. The 

 characteristics of this genus were first described, by Mr. D. Don, 

 in the lAnudsan Transactions ; where he has also described two 

 species of it. M. Zuccarini has, in the Ahhandlungen der Mathe- 

 matisch-Physikalischen Classe der Koniglich Bayerisclien Akademie 

 Wissenschqften (Munich), 1832, presented an abstract of these 

 characteristics ; and described, in p. 306., those of the plant he 

 had formerly called Rhodochiton volubile, and has there applied 

 to it the name Lophospermum atrosanguineum. This fact was 

 not present to Mr. D. Don's mind when he named the same 

 species Lophospermum Rhodochiton in Sweet's British Flower^ 

 Garden, Aug. 183 1, t. 250.; and Mr. D. Don has kindly com- 

 municated these particulars to us, that the priorly published 

 name, Lophospermum atrosanguineum Zuccarini, may be made 

 known as the legitimate one, to the abrogation of the name L. 

 Rhodochiton D. Don. In the Ahhandlungen, tab. 13., a plate of 

 excellent figures, uncoloured, of the species is given : they exhibit 

 a flowering specimen, and several parts of the flower and fruit. 

 For information on the habits of the species, see Gard. Mag., 

 X. 460. 



1779. GERA'RD//i. [^Jameson's Eden. Phil. Journ., No. 35., descript. 



aphfUa Nutt. \eaRess-stemmed O or 3 n Ro From N. Carolina to Florida 1834? S bog 



This very pretty plant came up in soil in which plants of 

 Dionae^a Muscipula had been imported, from North America, 

 by Mr. Cunningham of the nursery at Comely Bank, near 

 Edinburgh. It flowered in the stove in November, 1834. [It 

 was probably kept in the stove only because the plants of 

 DionaeV, among which it had grown, were of necessity kept in 

 that department.] Its flov/ers terminate the stem and branches 

 in spicate racemes ; the corolla is half an inch long, half an inch 

 across, rose-coloured. (Dr. Graham, in Jameson^s Edin. Phil. 

 Journ., Jan.) 



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