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in the bracts ; calyx 5-parted, lobes nearly equal. Nearly allied 



to Liboniana. 



A. formosa, DC. (carduifolia, Hook. " Ic. PI." t. 713), is 

 now lost to cultivation, lyrata, DC. " Prod." xi. 302, Colombia, 

 and runcinata, DC. " Prod." xi. 302, Colombia, all belonging 

 to the spinous-leaved section, would be welcome introductions to 

 our hothouses. 



Asystasia 



bella, Hook., "Gen." ii. 1095 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 5797).— South 

 Africa. A well-known beautiful shrubby plant for intermediate 

 house or conservatory. Lovely lilac flowers delicately reticulated 

 with purple lines, in many-flowered racemes. When planted out in 

 a house, well cut back after flowering, rested for a time in the early 

 autumn and then well fed, it flowers profusely in May and June. It 

 can also be grown in pots, treated as above, but it does not then 

 flower quite so well as when planted out. Syn. Mackaya bella, 

 under which name it is generally met with. 



chelonoides, Nees, DC. "Prod." xi. 164. — India and Ceylon. 

 Straggling habit ; leaves elliptic, entire, sub-glabrous, up to 

 4 inches long by If inch broad ; racemes compound, many- 

 flowered, the lower pedicels longer than the calyx ; corolla | inch, 

 purple. Closely allied to coromandeliana. 



COromandeliana, Nees in "Wall. PI. As. Rar." iii. 89. — India. 

 A straggling herbaceous plant. Racemes about 5 inches long ; 

 flowers 1 J inch long ; the upper inflated portion of the tube much 

 longer than its cylindric base, white to pinkish. Rather a weedy 

 subject ; answers well round a hanging-basket, admirable for 

 covering a wall over which peat has been wired in, as it flowers all 

 the summer. 



macrocarpa, Nees, DC. "Prod." xi. — Himalayas up to 4,000 feet 

 elevation. A rambling plant ; leaves oblong or elliptic, up to 

 nearly 5 inches long by 1| inch broad ; racemes usually condensed, 

 1 -sided, sometimes lax, erect, 3-4 inches long ; flowers dull pink, 

 corolla- tube 1J inch long, ventricose upward from a very short 

 cylindric base. 



scandens, Hook. (fig. " Bot. Mag." t. 4449).— Sierra Leone. Scan- 

 dent or straggling shrub. Racemes terminal, with many large 

 cream-coloured flowers ; calyx of 5 small, linear, ciliate, equal 

 sepals ; corolla slightly hairy, tube curved, the narrow cylindric 

 portion as long as calyx, then enlarging and spreading into 5 

 large lobes. A very fine stove species. 



Violacea, Dal/, in "Fl. Brit. Ind." vol. iv. 494 ; (fig. "Bot. Mag." 

 t. 4248 as coromandeliana). — India, Western Ghats up to 6,000 feet 

 elevation. Leaves sub-ovate, sub-glabrous, up to about 7 inches 

 long by 8 inches broad ; racemes compound, many-flowered, the 

 lower pedicels shorter than the calyx ; flowers large, violet-blue, 

 \ \ inch long. 



