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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Candolle, and both natives of Eastern Australia ; now, six others are described in the s Plan tee 
Preissiante,' as inhabitants of the Swan River settlement." The species here more immediately 
under notice, is a tall and rather loose-growing heath-like shrub, with slender branches full of 
twigs towards the point of each. The flowers are of a lively yellow colour spotted with red, and 
spring from the axils of the leaves, very densely arranged, and completely encircling the stem 
with an unbroken mass for several inches in length. With proper management whilst the plant 
is young, to render it bushy, the species will make a very attractive shrub. Bot. Mag., 4146. 
Calathe^a Villoma. " A native of Demerara, whence it was sent by the Chevalier Schom- 
burgk to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in July, 1843. It is not possible, in the present 
state of the Marantaceous order, to say much about its affinity, without a very careful examination 
of all the species to be found in books ; but we presume that it is nearly related to Roscoe's 
Phrynium Cylindricum. Its very shaggy leaves and flower-spikes, taken along with the 
lengthened cylindrical form of the latter, offer discriminating marks that are not to be mistaken." 
It has oblong petiolate leaves of considerable size, and the stem extends into a long scape, at the 
summit of which is a cylindrical spike of yellow flowers. Before they expand, the flowers are 
concealed in large greenish bracts. The species needs a high stove temperature, and should be 
liberally watered whilst it continues in a growing state. Sandy loam and peat is recommended 
as a suitable soil for it. It is increased by offsets. — Bot. Reg., 14. 
Eu'stoma Exalta^tum. This plant is known in botanical works by no less than five other 
names besides the present. "It appears" writes Dr. Lindley, "from the researches of Dr. 
Grisebach, that Lisianthus Russellianus, this plant, and another or two like them, constitute a 
peculiar genus which Mr. Bentham called Urananthus, but which had been previously named 
Eustoma by the late Professor Don. It is therefore necessary to cancel the common name of 
this plant in favour of that which is now given. Under the designation of Lisianthus glaucifoIiu s 
the species is circulating among gardeners as something new ; but it is, in truth, a species 
respectable for its antiquity, having been described years ago by Lamarck, under the name of 
Lisianthus exaltatus, and by Jacquin as /„* glaucifoIius. It is the celebrity of L. Russellianus 
that has again brought it into notice." Besides the foregoing synonymes, it has received the 
names of Chlora exaltata, and Eustoma silenifolium. " It is a native of various parts of North 
America : the warm parts of Mexico on the coast of the Pacific, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Cuba, St. 
Domingo, the Havannah, and the Arkansas, are all set down as stations from whence it has been 
brought." Dr. Lindley suspects that all the plants thus collected may not prove to be the same 
species, as the style is considerably longer in specimens from the North of Mexico, than in those 
which flowered last summer at the establishment of Mr. Glendinning, at Turnham Green. In 
point of beauty it is inferior to E. Russellianum, having smaller flowers, but is, nevertheless, a 
very pretty and interesting greenhouse plant. It has rather a stiff habit, with glaucous, elliptic, 
oblong leaves, and flowers when not more than a foot high. The seeds "should be sown about 
midsummer. The plants will naturally come weak at first, but to retard their flowering till the 
following season, as well as to strengthen them, they should be stopped at every other joint, until 
they have produced a sufficient number of lateral shoots. The soil which seems most suitable is 
sandy peat. Water and heat should be liberally given during the growing season." It is 
naturally only of annual duration. Bot. Reg., 13. 
Ly'cium fuchsio'ides. " Introduced to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, and raised from 
seeds sent by Dr. Jameson, from Azoques, in the Quitinian Andes, where it is used by the natives 
for fences." It appears from dried specimens procured from the same locality, that both fruit 
and flowers are witnessed on one branch at the same time ; the former, of course, appearing on 
the lower part from the flowers of the previous season, and the latter adorning the more extreme 
portion. A good representation is given in the e Plantee ^Equinoctiales/ from specimens obtained, 
at neighbouring stations— the somewhat cold, elevated region near Delay, Cumbe, and Cuenca, in 
the province of Quito ; but the intermediate lesser teeth of the limb of the corolla are omitted, 
which, indeed, are not easily seen in the dried specimens ; and the fruit is given as a small 
globose berry. In the Nov. Gen. Amer., however, the berry of the same plant is, on the 
authority of Humboldt, described as < ovate so that I cannot doubt," adds Sir W. Hooker, " of 
our plant being identical with it." This species of Box-thorn is one of the unarmed section, and 
is a handsome showy plant, everywhere perfectly smooth, and well furnished with blunt leaves, 
