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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



Magazine, t. 4397 ; and the present, with shorter, blunter, and 

 wavy leaves, which is what was originally described. Both have 

 lar^e fleshy flowers, greenish on the outside, and stained with 

 deep purple all over the inside of the corolla, the coronet re- 

 maining straw-coloured, and they are among the finest of the 

 stove-twiners in cultivation. If the purple of the corolla were 

 more brilliant, they would be almost unrivalled. 



A strong climbing plant, growing freely in a mixture of sandy 

 peat and leaf-mould, if placed in a strong moist heat. It is 

 easily increased by cuttings in the usual way, and flowers freely 

 at different times all the summer and autumn. 



A fine shrub for places where there is plenty of room up the 

 rafters, in the stove, or it may be trained round a trellis in a 

 pot. 



Sept. 4, 1849. 



5. Calboa globosa. Morenoa globosa, Llave and Lexarza, 

 Nov. Stirp., fasc. ii. p. 5. Quamoclit globosa, Bentham, 

 Plantce Hartweyiance, No. 603, p. 89. 



Raised from seeds received from Mr. Hartweg in January, 

 1846, said to have been collected on the eastern de- 

 clivity of Orizaba in Mexico. 



A rambling perennial, smooth in every part. Leaves thin, 

 dull green, on long stalks, extremely variable in form ; some 

 are cordate and acuminate ; others sagittate ; others completely 

 hastate, with the lobes all narrow, and the lower ones deeply 

 angular. The flowers grow in naked umbels, on a peduncle 9 

 or 10 inches long; the pedicels are from H to 4 inches long. 

 Each sepal has a long subulate process at the back. The corolla 

 is 2^ inches long, deep rich red, with a curved cylindrical tube, 

 and a campanulate erect limb, divided into 5 erect rounded wavy 

 lobes. The stamens are declinate, and longer than the corolla. 



This very curious plant was referred to Quamoclit by Mr. 

 Bentham, but it appears to be perfectly distinct from that genus 

 in its declinate stamens, and curved corolla with a great cam- 

 panulate inflated limb. Whether or not there may be more 

 than one species is somewhat uncertain. The Calboa vitifolia of 

 Cavanilles, from St. Bias in California, is figured by that author 

 with 5 long distinct reflexed segments to its corolla, which is said 

 to be yellow on the outside, and purplish red in the inside. If 

 so, it must be distinct from this. The plant in the Society's 

 garden is undistinguishable from the Guatemala specimens 

 brought home by Hartweg, and yet it was raised from Mexican 

 seeds. This gives rise to a suspicion that Cavanilles' account is 

 not to be trusted, and that there may be only one species ; if so, 

 it will bear the name of C. vitifolia. 



A strong half-woody climber, growing freely in any good 



