GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Maeanta (?) oenata. Linden. Var. 1, albo-lineata ; var. £, eoseo-lineata. Two 

 charming stove plants from Columbia, introduced by M. Linden. Leaves rich, deep green, 

 striped in one variety with clear white, in another with clear pink. 



Meteosideeos floeida. Smith (alias Melaleuca florida, Forster ; alias Leptospermum 

 scandens, Forster) . A beautiful greenhouse shrub, with rich crimson flowers, belonging to 

 the order of Myrtleblooms (Myrtaced). Introduced to the Boyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

 from New Zealand. Flowers in May. 



A shrub, about five feet high, everywhere glabrous, forming a compact mass, but every now and then sending 

 out spreading branches, which indicate that under favourable circumstances it. would be scandent. Leaves opposite, 

 one inch or one and a half inches long, leathery, slightly glossy, distinctly and closely nerved on both sides ; dark green 

 above, pale beneath, where also the dotting is more distinct than on the upper side, but not visible to the naked eye. 

 Corymbs terminal, almost sessile. Petals orbicular, concave, red, deciduous, longer than the calycine lobes. Stamens 

 numerous, at first involute, then spreading, four times as long as the petals, red. A fine glossy -leaved evergreen shrub, 

 forming a handsome bush, having much resemblance to the Myrtle. 



Choeozema coedattjm. Lindley (alias C. flava, Ilenfrey) . A yellow variety of this 

 well-known little greenhouse shrub has been imported by Messrs. Henderson, of the 

 Wellington Nursery, and published in the Gardeners' Magazine of Botany as a new species. 

 Except colour, which is variable in its wild state, there is nothing essential by which it 

 can be distinguished. 



Eeica elegantissima. Gardeners 3 Magazine of Botany. A pretty hybrid, said to 

 have been raised between E. hiemalis and E. Hartnelli. Flowers tubular, deep rose, with 

 a white flat border. 



iEscHYNANTHUS Javanicus. Hort. A most beautiful stove epiphyte, introduced by 

 Messrs. Rollisson, from Java, with close racemes of bright red ascending flowers, each more 

 than two inches long, with a starry yellow throat. Belongs to the order of Gesnerads. 



At first sight this bears much resemblance to the M. pulcher. The plant is more compact, the leaves smaller, the 

 flowers all over down as well as the pedicels, the calyx truly cylindrical (not swollen below), the limb spreading, the 

 corolla more slender and graceful, the stamens exserted. Leaves opposite, oval or ovate, sometimes approaching to 

 oblong, between coriaceous and fleshy, obscurely angular and toothed, the veins sunk in the substance of the leaf. 

 Corymbs terminal, of many large, handsome, richly-coloured flowers. Calyx large, greatly wider than the tube of the 

 corolla it includes, downy, dark green, red-bro wn above ; the tube cylindrical, faintly striated, the five lobes of the limb 

 spreading horizontally. Corolla bright red, about thrice the length of the limb ; the tube slender, funnel-shaped, downy, 

 laterally compressed, with a prominence under the throat ; mouth oblique ; limb of four nearly equal, spreading, large 

 ovate lobes, the upper one notched, the rest entire and streaked and blotched with yellow. Stamens all exserted, 

 especially the upper ones. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4503. 



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