376 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



very interesting plant, in summer of ISS^, from seeds gathered 

 on Mount Wellington, at 3000 ft. above the level of the sea, by 

 Mr. William Davidson, the curator of theHobart Town Botanic 

 Garden, and brought by Dr. Wilson. It is communicated in the 

 Bot. Mag., from Mr. Curtis, that " the plant flourishes with me 

 in a common pit ; but I expect it will prove quite hardy, though 

 I do not venture to remove it to the border during winter." 

 [Bot. Mag., June.) 

 CXC. Cinchonaceae. 



6315. ? RA'ND/^. 



BowieiJraa Gun. Bowie's «( □ or Pa.Y Brazil 1815 ? C l.p Bot. mag. 3409 



"The genus must remain doubtful, until we have an opportunity of examining the fruit." — Hooker. 



A shrub of slender habit. Leaves oblong, but broader upwards; 

 acuminate, 3 in. to 4 in. long, and more than 1 in. broad ; borne 

 in opposite pairs, several together, at the extremity ~ of long 

 straight shoots. Flower large, handsome, terminal, solitary; 

 tube of the corolla about, by the figure, 5 in. long, cylindrical ; 

 the limb spreading or slightly recurved, more than 2 in. across 

 by the figure, of five large, obovate, yellow-buif-coloured seg- 

 ments : a club-shaped, large, yellow stigma is prominent from 

 the mouth of the tube. *' A handsome stove plant, discovered in 

 the year 1815, by Mr. Allan Cunningham and Mr. Bowie, the 

 king's botanical collectors in Brazil ; and by them sent to the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew," whence the specimen figured 

 and described has been supplied. {Bot. Mag., June.) 



CCIX. Gesnerese. 



1698. GE'SNER^. 



[oblong or spathulate) tt. n or IJ? jl O Brazil ? (see below) 1834? C p.l Bot.reg.1767 

 ailagophylla. Ma?-tius shifting-leaved (leaves ternate, opposite, or scattered; and either linear- 



The figure has been taken from a plant belonging to Mr. 

 Young, Epsom. Dr. Lindley is not certain that this is of the 

 species allagophylla Martins : if it be, it " is a native of the 

 auriferous plains of Brazil, in the province of the Mines, in 



vai'ious places It has also been met with by Sellon, beyond 



the tropic, in the province of St. Paul's." Whether it be this 

 species, or one distinct from it, Dr. Lindley has deemed it " a 

 very pretty neat species, and an interesting addition to the showy 

 and easily cultivable genus to which it belongs." The whole 

 surface of the plant is represented hairy, even the corollas exter- 

 nally ; a detached leaf, from the lower part of the stem, is 

 oblong, obtuse crenate ; leaves on the upper part of the stem are 

 ovato-acuminate crenate. Flowers sessile, constituting a spike 

 more than 4 in. long ; corolla more than half an inch long, 

 orange-coloured, or rather more red than this. {Bot. Reg., June.) 



CCXI. ScrophularinecE. 



A revision of the characteristics of nearly all the known genera 

 of this order, by George Bentham, Esq., is presented in the Bo- 

 tanical Begister, the number for June, 1835. This will be agree- 



