By Mr. John Lindley. 



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in a tall, very compound, stiff panicle, greenish white, and of 

 no beauty. It has a remarkable resemblance in every thing 

 but size to the original species of the genus, C. inornatum. It 

 is cultivated in the stove in decomposed wood, and grows 

 vigorously, but indicates no disposition to multiply. It pro- 

 duces seeds in abundance. It is figured in the Botanical 

 Register, tab. 813. 



XXIII. Ipomaea paniculata. Kcr. 



I am unable to distinguish from this species, two different 

 plants received by the Society in 1822 and 1823, from Sierra 

 Leone and Maranham, as the Jalap of those countries. Their 

 roots are very large and fleshy, pushing forth one or two 

 annual branches, which grow with great vigour to the length 

 of twenty feet or more, and remain covered for several months 

 with cymes of bright purplish red blossoms. Their leaves are 

 lobed, and generally shaped as in /. paniculata. The plant 

 from Sierra Leone differs from that from Maranham in hav- 

 ing the leaves more deeply lobed, and in the tube of its 

 corolla being shorter. These differences do not, however, 

 appear sufficient to make it necessary to separate them bo- 

 tanically, though they certainly are not identical. Cut- 

 tings of them strike root freely in a mixture of sandy loam 

 and peat, under a hand-light in a warm frame. Their roots 

 should be kept dry through the winter, and re-potted in 

 fresh mould in the spring. 



XXIV. Aneilema Sinicum. Kcr. 



This pretty plant is usually cultivated in the stove, but, I 

 believe, it is quite able to bear the temperature of a common 

 green-house. It is a procumbent herbaceous plant with 



