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pointing directly downward, so as to allow insects to descend, but effectually to obstruct their return. The inner surface 

 of the hood is likewise lined with stiff and sharp retrorse bristles, which subserve a similar purpose, except in S. flavu, 

 which is smooth ; but in that species this appendage is erect with its sides turned away from the mouth of the tube, which 

 thus it bears no part in guarding." 



The species now represented inhabits the States from Virginia to Canada, and is readily known by the short inflated form 

 of its pitchers. It strikes us that manufacturers might easily avail themselves of its grotesque figures for various economical 

 purposes, especially the workers in gold and silver porcelain. In what way this may be done, our artist has endeavoured 

 to suggest ; but we doubt not that the good taste and practical skill of manufacturers would soon strike out a better path. 



Echixopsis campy lacantha. Pfeiffer (alias Echinocactus leucanthus, Gillies; alias 

 Cereus leucanthus, Pfeiffer). A long-spined Cactus, from the province of Mendoza, in 

 Chili. Flowers long-tubed, large, pink, with a grey outside. Produced at Kew. 



A fine and well-marked species, with handsome flowers, readily distinguished by the great length of the central spine 

 of the areolae, and by its taking an upward and inward curve, a direction to which the other radiating spines are more or 

 less inclined. It is a native of the Argentine province of Mendoza, at the eastern foot of the Andes, where it was 

 discovered by the late Dr. Gillies, and introduced by him to our Gardens, with mauy others from that region, which we 

 fear are now mostly lost to us. It flowers in the spring and summer months. Our plants are, the largest of them, a 

 foot high, in shape between ovate and globose, not unlike that of a pine-apple, rather acute at the top, longitudinally 

 furrowed ; ridges fourteen to sixteen, considerably elevated, scarcely compressed, obtuse ; the edges slightly tubercled or 

 lobed.— Bot. Mag., t. 4567. 



Rhynchospeemum jasminoides. Liiulley. A Greenhouse evergreen climber, with white 

 sweet-scented flowers. Native of China. Belongs to Dogbanes. (Fig. 142.) 



This is a slender climbing evergreen shrub, rooting along its branches, whenever it touches a damp surface, like ivy. 

 When wounded, its branches discharge a milky fluid. The young shoots are slightly downy ; the leaves opposite, oval, 

 deep green, quite smooth, sharp-pointed, with minute scale-like glands in the place of stipules. The flowers are white, 



deliciously sweet-scented, aud produced in small irregular 

 corymbs on the ends of peduncles, considerably larger 

 than the leaves. Their calyx consists of five narrow 

 smooth convex sepals, rolled backwards, and much shorter 

 than the tube of the corolla, with a very shallow toothed 

 glandular ring surrounding the base of the latter. The 

 corolla is about three quarters of an inch long, pure white, 

 salver-shaped, contracted in the middle of the tube, with a 

 partially spreading border, whose five divisions are wedge- 

 shaped, truncate, and twisted obliquely. 



The anthers are five, arrow-headed, placed just within 

 the orifice of the tube, and separated by five slightly 

 elevated hairy lines. The ovary consists of two separate 

 carpels, and is surrounded by five oblong green emargi- 

 nate hypogynous scales, which sometimes are slightly 

 united at the edge. 



The structure of this plant is not precisely that of the 

 genus Rhynchospermum, as given by M. Alph. De Can- 

 dolle, for the scales beneath its ovary" are not exactly 

 united into a cup. But they are partially so : and as 

 there is no other difference as far as can be ascertained 

 from the plant in a state of flowering only, it may be 

 referred to the genus. In habit it is more like an 

 Aganosma, but its corolla has not the tapering lobes of 

 that genus, nor do the nectary or stigma correspond with 

 it. Journal of Hort. Soc. vol. i, p. 74. 



Columnea Kalb reYeuana. A very sin- 

 gular and distinct looking plant, shown by 

 Messrs. Veitch at a meeting of the Royal 



