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Cllbensis (fig. " Bot. Mag.'' 4829). — Cuba. Leaves small ; peduncles 

 axillary, 1 -flowered ; flowers long, tubular, curved, scarlet, 

 yellow at the base. A shrubby plant for a warm greenhouse. 

 See also " Fl. des Serres," 3, 297. 



floribunda (fig. "Rev. Hort." [1878], 30)— Cuba. A dwarf 

 bushy reddish downy species ; flowers axillary, numerous, 

 reddish ; the tube distended above the middle, the limb shortly 

 3-lobed. Very near libonensis. 



libonensis (fig. " Bot. Mag." 4380 as Gesnera). — West Indies. A 

 very pretty little plant, with long crimson tubular flowers and 

 spathulate leaves. Cuttings root rapidly in sand, and flower 

 much more freely than the old plants, and are fascinating in tiny 

 pots. It is sent out from foreign nurseries under the name of 

 Ophianthe libonensis. See also " Fl. des Serres," 178. 



long-iflora (fig. " Bot. Mag." 7339).— West Indies. A beautiful 

 small shrubby plant ; supra-axillary peduncles with several fine 

 scarlet flowers. 



neglecta (Hanst. in "Linn." xxxiv. [1865], 305) (not figured).— 

 Jamaica. Shrubby ; peduncles short, 1 -flowered ; corolla tube 

 broadly campanulate. 

 verrucosa (fig. Paxt., u Fl. Garden," iii. 30, t. 250).— Cuba. A 

 rigid greenhouse shrub ; flowers tubular, scarlet, solitary in the 

 axils, on long peduncles. In the way of cubensis. 

 Phinaea.— Dwarf stove-herbs allied to Niphaea, of scarcely more than 

 botanical interest. Rhizomes like Achimenes. 

 albolineata (fig. " Bot. Mag." 4282). — Colombia. Leaves beauti- 

 fully streaked with white ; peduncles axillary, umbellate ; flowers 

 small, white. "Bot. Mag." 5043, P. reticulata, is a variety 

 only of this species. 

 rubida (Nicholson, "Diet. Gard." iii. 99) = Niphaea oblonga. 

 Phylloboea Henryi (Duthie, MS. Herb. Kew).— Yunan, 4,600 feet 

 elevation on rocks. A pretty little pot plant, in the way of 

 Diclymocarpus ; leaves with dense white tomentum beneath ; 

 cymes axillary ; flowers broadly campanulate, whitish. In 

 cultivation at Kew. 

 Plectopoma. See under Achimenes. 



Ramondia pyrenaica (fig. " Bot. Mag." 236). — Pyrenees. A well-known 

 hardy plant; scapes 1 -many-flowered ; flowers purple or white ; 

 scarcely any tube to the corolla. 



Rhabdothamnus Solandri (fig. "Bot. Mag." 8019).— New Zealand, 

 Wellington, N. Island. A small shrubby greenhouse plant ; 

 llowers tubular, campanulate, sub-bilabiate, orange-scarlet, 

 Tydaea-like, on axillary solitary pedicels ; leaves small, round, 

 scabrous, deeply toothed. Lately introduced and sent out by 

 Lemoine. 



serbica, DC. "Mon." v. 168 (not figured). — Thessaly. Scapes 

 1-3-flowered ; flowers yellow, with scarcely any tube to the 

 corolla ; leaves crenato-serrate. 



Heldreichli, Hoak. "Gen. PI." ii. p. 1024 (not figured).— Mount 

 Olympus, Thessaly, up to 3,000 feet elevation. Leaves nearly 



