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2. M DiANDRA, Don's syst. 4, p 235 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1 656 ; 

 Gaert. Fr. 2, 1 10 ; Bot. Rep. t. 575.— Native of Mexico*; springs up 

 everywhere in waste places of gardens, &c. during the rains. The 

 flower is very ornamental, and the quaint-shaped, beetle-like seed, 

 with its two sharp anterior hooks, is often an object of curiosity. 



3. M Peoboscidla. — Has been raised by us from seed sent by 

 the Marchese Ridolfi, of Florence ; the hooks at the end of the 

 seed-vessel are about 3 inches in length ; flower pink ; leaves broad, 

 ovate, downy. It has for the present disappeared from the 

 gardens. 



LIX.— COBEACE^, D. Don. in Echn. (?) Phil. 



Jour. 1824, Vol. 10. 



1 . CoBEA ScANDENS. — A climber, with leaves alternate, abruptly 

 pinnate, branched tendrils ; calyx 5-wingled ; corolla long, having a 

 deep purple throat, and the lacinise spreading, ciliated. Native of 

 South America. Garden Dapoorie. 



LX.— POLEMONACEtE, Juss. Gen. p 136. 



This family contains some of the Californian annual plants, 

 mostly of great beauty. They are, however, generally of too 

 evanescent a character to merit a place here. We have at different 

 times had in flowers, Gilia tricolor, Cantua coronopifolia, and 

 Leptosiphon androsaceus. The only one which merits a place as 

 an established annual, renewed from its own seed, is Phlox 

 drummondii, which has ovate-lanceolate, half stem-clasping, 

 entire leaves, and showy purple flowers, darker in the centre. 



LXL— CONVOLVULACE^, Don's Syst. 4, p 253. 

 THE BINDWEED TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 218. 



PHARBITIS, Choisy, Pentandria Monogynia. 



1. P Learii.— Native of Brazil; a very beautiful Convolvulus, 

 with large, blue flowers tinged with streaks of purple ; it is now a 

 favourite ornament of verandas and trellises in Western India, 

 throwing out many flowers in the rains. Is not this the Ipomea 

 hookeri of Don's Catalogue, otherwise Ipomea rubo-coerulea ? 

 We ask the question doubtingly ; but there is evidently some un- 

 certainty, as Don asks whether it be not a Rivea. Jn fact, there is 

 great confusion in the more modern classification of the Convol- 

 vulacese. 



