By Mr. John Lindley. 



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be found in the Botanical Register, tab. 899, taken from a 



exists in collections in this country. It is therefore not im- 

 possible that the Costus spicatus of the Hortus Kewensis is 

 a synonym of C. Pisonis, 



XVIII. Leonotis intermedia. Lindley. 

 This fine plant was raised from seed collected in Delagoa 

 Bay, and sent to the Society by the late Mr. John Forbes. 

 It is a naked, half shrubby, herbaceous plant, about four feet 

 high. Leaves rugose, cordate, small, much shorter than the 

 joints of the stem ; the flowers are disposed in several terminal, 

 whorled spikes ; the corolla is about an inch and a half long, 

 covered all over with long, silky, loose, dark orange coloured 

 hairs. Cultivated in the stove, in common soil, and easily in- 

 creased by cuttings. It is figured in the Botanical Register, 



A small herbaceous perennial plant, requiring the protec- 

 tion of a frame. Stem a foot or a foot and a half high, 

 square, blunt at the angles, slightly pubescent, coloured with 

 purple at the joints. Leaves triangular-ovate, coarsely ser- 

 rated, entire at the base, nearly smooth, about the same 

 length as the slender footstalks. Flowers white, very minute, 

 in slender dense spikes, bracteae subulate, length of the calyx, 

 which is campanulate, five-cleft, nearly equal, covered with 

 white hairs. Corolla a little longer than the calyx, downy 

 on the cutside, four-cleft, the upper lobe emarginate, the 

 lateral entire, the lower cup-shaped, a little larger than the 



tab. 850. 



XIX. Mentha blanda. Wallich. 



