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doubly serrated, the serratures mucronate. Corymb large, the capitula clustered at the ends of the branches. Flowers 

 remarkable for the exceedingly long purple styles, which have, at first sight, almost the effect of a many-flowered ray. 

 The corollas are also purple. Achenium angular. Pappus of few scabrous setse." 



If Conoclinium differs as a genus from Heheclinium, merely in having a smooth conical receptacle, instead of a hairy 

 convex one, — very small matters, — then no doubt this plant has been wrongly placed by Morren. But if the genera differ 

 in the coloured enlarged bracts of the one, as compared with the herbaceous bracts of the other, then Morren's view may 

 be the more correct. But, in truth, the genera are so nearly allied that it would be better to unite them than to waste 

 words in unprofitable discussions concerning distinctions which are fleeting and undeterminate. Sir W. Hooker adds that 

 the plant is Mexican and not Brazilian. 



Eogiera Menechma. PlancJwn. A 

 stove shrub of the order of Cinchonads. Flowers 

 pale salmon-coloured. Native of Guatemala. 

 Introduced by the Horticultural Society. (Pig. 

 144, reduced, with flowers by the side, of the 

 natural size.) 



In his accoint of this genus, at t. 442 of the Flore 

 des Serves, M. Planchon distinguished from his R. amcena, 

 a plant which he called R. Menechma, by its stamens being 

 inserted near the orifice of the tube, and having paler 

 pollen, and by the shortness of the style, which does not 

 reach half way up the corolla. In other respects it was 

 said to be wonderfully like R. amcena. We entertain no 

 doubt that his species is what is now figured from a 

 specimen in one of the hothouses of the Horticultural 

 Society, although in some respects the resemblance fails. 

 It has the same manner of growth and similar foliage, 

 but is more downy ; and the leaves are more ovate. The 

 branches are covered with a close fur instead of having 

 a fine pubescence. The flowers are not so large nor so 

 compactly arranged, and are much paler; the lobes of the 

 corolla are almost acute instead of being emarginate: and 

 the anthers are placed just below the throat of the corolla. 

 We do not, however, find the style always as M. Planchon 

 describes it ; sometimes it is protruded beyond the orifice 

 of the corolla as in R. amcena, sometimes it is not half the 

 length of the corolla. Both these plants are very useful 

 aids in decorating stoves, and possess the good quality of growing without unwillingness under the commonest management. 

 Dampness, light, tropical warmth, and a light vegetable soil, are all the requisites which they demand. 



TitopiEOLUM pendulum. KlotzscL An annual (?) climbing, half-hardy plant, with 

 yellow flowers, from Central America. Introduced by Mr. Mathieu, Nurseryman, Berlin. 



Branches shining, round, bright green, climbing. Leaves peltate, smooth, glaucous beneath, deep green above, 

 rounded and truncate at the base, slightly five-lobed, with short acute lobes of which the middle one is mucronate. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous. Calyx five-parted, yellow, with oblong lobes tapering to the point, the three upper 

 curved backwards, the two lower nearly erect, together with the middle one of the upper set greenish at the point. 

 Petals yellow, spathulate, crenated on the upper edge, the three lower long-stalked and whole coloured, the two upper 

 sessile, recurved, marked with parallel red lines and a dull violet bar near the edge. Filaments yellowish. Anthers 

 greyish green. Raised from M. Warczewitsch's collections. Allgem. Gartenzeit., Nov. 30, 1850. 



Lespedeza bicolor. Amongst the pea-shaped flowers are to be found many of the 

 most attractive blooming plants Ave possess, and the subject of the present notice being 

 a hardy shrub, is a fine addition to our out-door flowers. Its flowers are produced in 

 partially erect racemes from several of the joints towards the extremities of the shoots, and 

 are very handsome. It bloomed at Kew in the autumn of 1881, and is a native of Japan 

 and North China. 



