serted of those in the various departments of science ; they are 
scattered through the island, and dignify, at the same time 
that they adorn, the residences of our men of rank and fortune. 
Amongst those who have devoted their attention to horticul- 
ture, and to the rearing of rare exotic plants, none has done so 
with greater success than our inestimable friend Robert Bar- 
clay, Esq. of Buryhill, Surrey. In the midst of a country 
remarkable for its natural beauties, and the profusion of its own 
vegetable productions, he has established a garden that already 
possesses a most choice collection of extra European vegetables, 
and in which I have lately seen, with peculiar satisfaction, a 
great number sent from Madagascar and the opposite coast of 
Africa and from the Mauritius, by Charles Telfair, Esq. 
who has been long resident in the last mentioned country. 
The African and Madagascar seeds were gathered by 
Messrs Helsinborg and Boyer. From the latter of these 
collections were raised the Thunhergia here figured, to which 
we have prefixed the MS. name of its discoverers, and of which 
the drawing was made in Mr Barclay's stove by an ingeni- 
ous artist Mr Duncombe, in the month of May 1825. 
The province in Madagascar where this plant is found, is 
Emirne, and the name there given to it is Hurnbi. The 
blossoms are produced in abundance, and they continue ex- 
panded about three days ; but no seeds have been as yet form- 
ed. 
The nearest affinity of this plant is unquestionably with 
the Th.fragrans : but here the leaves are much broader, the 
flowers much smaller, far longer in the tube, and different in 
colour. 
Fig. 1- Flower, with a leaflet of the outer calyx thrown back, to shew the 
inner calyx. Fig. 2. Anther. Fig. 3. Stigma. 
