598 Botanical, Floricultural, and Arboricultural Notices. 



This beautiful climbing green-house shrub, the flowers of which are pinkish, 

 rather than purple, has been splendidly flowered by Mr. Webster, gardener to 

 Mrs. Huskisson, at Eartham, by confining its roots to a small pot. " In this 

 simple fact lies the whole art of flowering plants perfectly; and nothing can 

 be more prejudicial to a species like the present, which is constitutionally 

 disposed to grow luxuriantly, than planting it in a bed or border, where its 

 supplies of fluid cannot be completely controlled, and its roots judiciously 

 limited." ( Paxt. Mag. of Bot., Oct.) 



Jioraginece. 



CynogUssum glochidiatum Wall. " A straggling herbaceous plant, about 



3 ft. high, of a loose inelegant habit of growth." The flowers are small, but 

 of an intensely bright blue, and the leaves, though few, are of a very bright 

 green. " It is quite hardy, and was raised by the Horticultural Society from 

 seeds sent from India by Dr. Falconer." (B. M. R., No. 128., Oct.) 



Scroph ularin ecB . 



1807. ANGELO'NIA 



Gardner* Hook. Mr. Gardner's J* □ or 3 my L Pernambuco 1838. D s.l Bot. mag. 3754, 



This very beautiful plant was found by Mr. Gardner in open dry places in 

 the province of Pernambuco in Brazil. " Seeds were sent to the Glasgow 

 Botanic Garden in 1838, and plants raised from them flowered in the stove 

 there in May, 1839." The flowers are large and handsome, and produced in 

 great abundance. (Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



Labiates. 



Salvia Moorcroftmna. Wall. A herbaceous species resembling' S. Sclarea, 

 with very large leaves and light blue flowers ; raised from seeds sent from 

 India by Dr. Falconer. (B. M. R., No. 127., Oct.) 



V erbendcece. 



1749. PERBE^NA. 

 29324a officinali-venosa W. H. B. hybrid £ A or 4 jl.o Bsh Oxford Gard. 1837. D co 



" When in a young state this plant very nearly resembles V. vendsa; but as 

 it advances it assumes a much more robust habit (growing to the height of 



4 ft.), becomes much branched, and produces its bluish flowers, which are 

 about the size of those of V. officinalis, in somewhat longer and looser spikes 

 than those of V. venosa ; the bracteae are also shorter than in the latter 

 species. We imagine that it must have been produced by accidental impreg- 

 nation between the two above-mentioned species, from the circumstance of 

 there having been plants of both species growing, and still remaining on the 

 spot where the hybrids first appeared. The plants certainly partake of the 

 characters of both V. officinalis and V. venosa, favouring the latter, however, 

 in nearly all respects except its robust habit, much-branched stem, and 

 smallness of its flowers." (W. H. B.) 



Amaryllidacese. 

 948. AGA'VE 31523 Saponaria Bot. Reg. 1839, 55. 



This very curious plant, which is used as a substitute for soap in Peru, very 

 closely resembles the Polianthes mexicana of Zuccarini. " Its culture is 

 very simple. When it is in a growing state it should be placed in a temper- 

 ature a little higher than that of a common green-house. It never requires 

 much water, and in the winter months it should be kept nearly dry. The 

 soil used in potting should be fresh loam mixed with a considerable quantity 

 of sand." (Bot. Reg., Oct.) 



979. ALSTR02ME'R/^ 8047a acutif&lia-aurea Botanist, No. 137. 



This beautiful hybrid was raised by Messrs. Pope of the Handsworth 

 Nursery, near Birmingham, and they are of opinion that it would flower 

 freely if planted out against a south wall. The greater part of these plants, 

 Mr. Herbert observes, " are natives of elevated situations, and dislike a high 

 temperament, and will endure the winter if planted pretty deep in a light soil, 

 and covered over with leaves in the cold season." (Botanist, Oct.) 



