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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



Corolla defiexed, nearly cylindrical, gibbous at the base on the 

 upper side, ljt inch long, bright scarlet, with an oblique regular 

 limb, and a circular throat. Disk, a lobed fleshy ring. Stigma 

 large, two-lobed, very hairy. 



This is a neat, distinct, and rather slender kind, requiring the 

 same treatment as the old A. coccinea, and easily increased by 

 the small scaly rhizomes. It grows about 8 or 10 inches in 

 height, and flowers from June to August. It is very handsome. 



25. Parsonsia heterophylla. Allan Cunningham, in An- 

 nals of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 46. (P. albiflora, Raoul.) 



Raised in 1847 from New Zealand seeds, presented by 

 J. R. Gowen, Esq. 



A twining evergreen greenhouse plant, flowering abundantly in 

 May and June. Stem covered with fine down, pale yellow ; leaves 

 leathery, dull green, slightly downy, wavy, very variable in 

 form ; linear, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, obovate, or even spa- 

 thulate, often repand, varying in length from 2 to 3 or 4 inches. 

 These singular diversities in the form of the leaves do not seem to 

 be confined to any particular parts of the plant, but appear on any 

 of the branches, and all intermingled ; the short spathulate leaves 

 are, however, most usual on short lateral shoots. Flowers pale 

 cream-colour, in close one-sided naked panicles, rather sweet- 



