By Mr. John Lindley. 



great facility from cuttings. In a pot, kept in a frame or 

 green -house, it ripens seeds in abundance. During the sum- 

 mer it is quite hardy, but the first frost destroys it. It is an 

 upright branching plant, with pinnate fleshy leaves, and ter- 

 minal bunches of pale yellow flowers, resembling, in a strik- 

 ing degree, the old Calceolaria pinnata. The plant was 

 raised in the Garden, from seed presented by Mr. Place, re- 

 ceived by him from Chili. It is figured in the Botanical Ma- 

 gazine, tab. 2405. 



L. Schizanthus pinnatus. Ruiz and Pawn, 

 The same collection of Chilian seeds from Mr. Place, to 

 which reference has so often been made, produced an abund- 

 ance of this beautiful annual. It bears few seeds in the open 

 borders, and, in the green-house, is propagated by cuttings ; 

 which will strike root with careful management. It is 

 thus, only, that the plant should be expected to be pre- 

 served. I know nothing more elegant, and, at the same time, 

 singular, than its spreading lilac flowers, delicately spotted 

 here and there with purple or yellow, and hanging, appa- 

 rently without support, over a finely cut foliage of the most 

 fresh and lively green. A good figure of it is in Dr. Hooker's 

 Exotic Flora, tab. 73. The Schizanthus porrigens of the same 

 indefatigable botanist, Exotic Flora, tab. 86, is surely a mere 

 variety of S. pinnatus, continually produced from seed of the 

 latter. 



LI. Schizopetalon Walkeri. Sims. 

 Another charming addition to our list of hardy annuals, 

 from the same source as the last. The petals are white, and 

 curiously cut ; they only expand for a few hours, after which 



