GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Vanda Boxalltt Cobbiaisia. A variety of the handsome V. Boccallii introduced by 

 Messrs. Low, and flowered witli Mr. Cobb, of Sydenham. 



Flowers very large, milky-white, with small short purple stipes on base. The inner half of lateral sepals is 

 of the darkest purple-brown. There are no blotches on the tops of sepals and petals, which is the chief difference 

 between this and the o.iginal V. BoxaUii. — Gardener's Ckruiiide, N.S., vol. xvi., p. 780* 



Escallonia rubra, var. punctata. This is a much smaller-growing sj)ecies than 

 E. maeranfJm, now so well known in most parts of the kingdom as a favourite evergreen 

 wall-plant, and which is deservedly popular for its pretty flowers and handsome deep 

 green glossy leaves. E. rubra is a native of Chili, and appears to thrive under like 

 conditions to E. macranfJia, . The flowers, produced from one to four in corymbs, are 

 bright red in colour, giving the plant a pretty appearance. Ordinary garden soil, with 

 the protection of a south wall where it can get plenty of sun, seems to suit it. 



A shrub, three to six feet high, much branched, evergreen, more or less clothed with resinous pubescence glands ; 

 branches slender, twiggy, with rich brown bark. Leaves one to one and a half inches long, deep bright green, 

 sessile or narrowed into a very short petiole, elliptic-ovate acute, finely serrated, the serration often irregular ; 

 upper surface glossy with deeply impressed veins ; under paler, smooth, glabrous, or glandular-pubescent, or gland- 

 dotted. Flowers one to four, rarely more, in terminal corymbs, suberect, pedicels a quarter to half an inch long, 

 pubescent. Calyx-tube turbinate, limb of five spreading entire or serrate triangular-ovate acuminate lobes, rather 

 longer than the tube. Corolla deep dark red ; petals one-third to half an inch long, cohering in an obtusely five- 

 angled tube, with thickened angles (the overlapping margins), tips of the petals about twice as broad as the claws, 

 rounded, revolute. Stamens equalling the tube in length, anther-tips exserted. Stigma very shortly exserted. — 

 Botanical Magazine, 6599. 



DitosERA capensis. Most people possessing any knowledge of plants are acquainted 

 with the Sundews of our native swamps — those interesting little fly-catchers, the leaves 

 of which, by the aid of their glutinous glands, allure to their destruction the incautious 

 flies and gnats that come to feed on the sweet sticky secretion which stands like miniature 

 pearls on the tips of the hair-like glands. The plant under notice is one of the species 

 introduced from the Cape of 'Good Hope. The stem, from the top of which the leaves 

 spring in a tuft, is of a woody nature ; the leaves are thickly studded with bright red 

 hairs, giving the plant a very pretty appearance. It was introduced by Messrs. Veitch; 

 the description is taken from a plant that flowered at Kew in a cool greenhouse. It is 

 a pretty species, well deserving cultivation. 



Stem one or two inches high, erect, simple, clothed with remains of leaf-bases and stipules. Leaves crowded 

 at the top of the stem, four to eight inches long, spreading ; blade as long as the petiole, one-fourth of an inch 

 wide, strap-shaped, obtuse, clothed with long red gland-tipped hairs ; petiole stout, hairy. Scape stout, much 

 longer than the leaves, hairy and slightly glandular. Raceme three to six inches long, many-flowered, sharply 

 decurved before flowering, ascending as the flowers open. Flowers opening one at a time, an inch in diameter 

 pale rose-red; pedicels short. Sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Petals orbicular obovate. Anthers with a broad 

 connective and the cells spreading below. Ovary oblong, three-grooved, with three placentas ; stigmas three, 

 divided to the base into two spreading and then ascending filiform divisions, each with a capitate stigma. — Botanical 

 Magazine, 6583. 



