GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Nepenthes Outeamiana. A handsome addition to these singular and interesting- 

 plants now so much cultivated. • It is a seedling variety, raised at the Holloway Nursery, 

 and is a cross between the deeply-mottled N. Hookerii and N. Sedenii, a small highly- 

 coloured kind of garden origin. It has received a first class-certificate from the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. 



The ground-colour is a medium shade of green, densely mottled, with deep red, the latter colour is so pro- 

 minent as to give the pitchers a more than usually bright appearance. The ciliate wings are large and 

 conspicuous. 



Nepenthes eobusta. A seedling raised by Mr. B. S. Williams, the parents being 

 N. Hookerii and the small Chinese species N. phyllamphora. 



It is a distinct-looking variety, with flask-shaped pitchers, the lower part much more inflated than with many 

 of the species or varieties. The wings are large and deeply toothed. The colour is similar to that of N. Hookerii* 

 which in itself is one of the handsomest marked kinds in cultivation. 



Eeytheina Eeytheostachya. Morten. A stove shrub of unknown origin, belonging 

 to the leguminous order. Mowers scarlet, very handsome. Introduced by the Belgians. 



The genus Erythrina of Linnaeus is composed of shrubs or shrub-like plants, occasionally having a subterraneous 

 stem with annual sub-herbaceous branches. They are indigenous to the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the whole 

 globe. Their stem and leaves are often furnished with prickles ; their leaflets are trifoliate and pinnated, the ter- 

 minal leaflet being at some distance from the other two ; instead of stipules there are stalked glands, small stipules 

 distinct from the petioles. The spikes of the flowers are long. The pedicels are often in threes. The flowers are 

 generally red and scarlet, and most beautiful. The seeds are often black, or variegated with black, and brilliant. Thi s 

 splendid species is not like any hitherto described and enumerated in the repertorium of M. Walpers. It approaches 

 Erythrina reticulata, Presl., but the leaves are glabrous, not wrinkled or downy. Besides, the thick tuberculiform 

 tooth of the calyx separates it from all the other species of the genus. The spike is more than six inches long. The 

 flowers, arranged in threes, are very numerous, and an inch and a half or two inches in length. Their colour is very 

 brilliant, and it is no doubt one of the prettiest plants that can be cultivated. It was found in the collection of 

 M. Verleuvren of Ghent, from whom it was bought by M. Cachet of Angers, under the erroneous name of Erythrina 

 speciosa. This was in 1832. We have given it one which recalls the beauty of its spike The cultivation does not 

 differ from what is required for the Erythrina Corallodendron. The trunk, when well cut in, is placed in a large pot 

 in a temperate house, where it begins to grow after February, if, that is to say, it is not wished to force it. In fine 

 weather it may be planted out, and in summer it forms a great ornament in our gardens.— Annales de Gand, t. 291. 



Conoclinium Ianthinum. Morren. A stove herbaceous plant from Brazil, belonging 

 to the Composites. Mowers in broad violet flat-headed panicles. Introduced by M. Alex. 

 Verschaffelt. 



This is a plant of great beauty. It forms a low soft-wooded shrub, covered with short brown down. The leaves 



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