GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



TurcnosACME lanata. Zuccarini. A woolly climbing Asclepiad from Mexico. Flowers 

 small, dark purple, with long tails. Introduced by Messrs. Kniglit and Perry. (Fig. 68.) 



This singular plant is so buried in wool that no part of its surface, except the face of the corolla, can be seen. The 

 leaves are white, like a lamb's fleece. The stem is in the same state. The minute flowers grow in pendulous umbels 

 at the end of a woolly reflexed flower-stalk. The singularity of the flower resides in the production of long, weak, 



feathery, purple tails from each lobe of the 

 corolla ; not, however, from the apex, as 

 Zuccarini supposed. On the contrary, each 

 lobe of the corolla is cut into two equal 

 triangular teeth, and it is from the right 

 hand tooth of each lobe that the tails proceed. 

 They spring forth abruptly, wave in the wind 

 in the most curious manner, and do not 

 separate from the corolla without the appli- 

 cation of some force. No doubt they are 

 analogous to the tails of Strophanths ; but 

 what can they be for I Messrs. Knight and 

 Perry received it from the Imperial Botanic 

 Garden, St. Petersburg. 



Dieffenbachia splekdens 

 Another handsome, quick-growing 

 stove plant, obtained by Mr. Bull 

 from the United States of Colombia. 



Stem deep green, relieved with a mottling 

 of paler green. The leaves are large and 

 pointed, the ground colour a medium shade 

 of green, the broad mid -rib is white, and 

 the whole surface of the leaf -blade is irre- 

 gularly interspersed with creamy-white 

 markings, well defined from the ground- 

 colour, giving the whole a bright, fresh 

 appearance. 



Nepenthes bicalcarata. 

 This very interesting pitcher- 

 plant has reached this country 

 in a living state through Mr. 



