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leaves similar to B. grandiflora, and flowers disposed in a corymbose order, of a form similar to 
those of B. margmata. It is said to be a splendid, free-blooming kind. Still another species has 
been added under the name of B. Cunninghamii, with deep rich red flowers, twice the size of 
B. marginata. It was found by Allan Cunningham, but no locality is mentioned.— Bot. Reg., 18. 
Calceolaria floribu'nda. Found by Mr. Lobb, in the American Tropics, and sent to 
Messrs. Veitch's nursery at Exeter, in 1843, where it flowered last September. It was discovered 
at an elevation of 11,000 feet above the sea, in the environs of Q,aito, and hence will probably 
prove a greenhouse plant, and perhaps thrive in the open air in summer. It is a sub-shrubby 
plant with narrow leaves, and many-flowered corymbs of pale-yellow blossoms, apparently some- 
thing like those of C. thyrsiflora.-^Bot. Mag., 4154. 
Ce'strum aurantj v acum. Most of this family have flowers of a greenish or some dingy colour, 
and only recommend themselves by their occasional sweetness. The large, and clear orange- 
coloured blossoms of the present, invest it with more gaiety. It forms a handsome greenhouse 
shrub, and may probably prove useful for the open border in summer. It has dark green, shining 
oval leaves, and is ornamented in winter with numerous snow-white, pear-shaped, berries. The 
flowers come in spikes on the top of the branches, and have a scent of orange-peel. Mr. Skinner 
sent it from Chimalapa, in Guatemala, to the Chiswick garden, where it flowered in August, 1844. 
It is a deciduous plant. — Bot. Reg., 22. 
Dysophy'lla stella'ta. Till Dr. Blurae corrected the error, the Dysophylls were regarded 
as Mints ; they are common in the warmer parts of India. The Starry Dysophyll is a " delicate 
little light green plant, looking something like a Bedstraw, but more erect, and bearing spikes of the 
prettiest little purple blossoms, which remind the observer of the spikes of a Mimosa, or some such 
plant. The long tender filaments are directed downwards, and being covered with delicate hairs, 
produce the appearance of plumes of purple silk." It is mentioned by botanists as inhabiting 
Malabar and Mysore. A specimen flowered last October, in the Earl of Auckland's garden. It 
must be managed in a warm greenhouse, and looks like a plant that would thrive well, where its 
roots could run amongst damp pebbles. — Bot. Reg., 23. 
Gesne^ra Schiedia v na. A very pretty species, flowered last November by Mr. Forbes, at 
Woburn Abbey, where it was received from Mexico. " It quite agrees with the G. spicata, (3, 
of De Candolle (also from Mexico), and seems different, as that author suspected, from the 
original New Grenada G. spicata of Humboldt, in which the inflorescence is more truly spicate, 
the flowers smaller, and the corollas much less hairy. Our species is remarkable for its richly- 
coloured blossoms, clothed with long shaggy hairs ; their colour a bright golden scarlet ; the 
limb variegated with red and yellow, the red arranged in broken lines. It is an erect-growing 
plant, with soft downy oblong leaves, generally three in a whorl, and sends out a number of 
flowers from each node. [It has also flowered in the Kew collection.] Bot. Mag., 4152. 
Gove^nia utricula v ta. This singular terrestrial orchidaceous plant, "remarkable for the 
large transparent, bladdery sheath surrounding its scape and the lower part of its leaves, was 
only known for a long time through the description of Swartz, who gathered it in Jamaica and 
Hispaniola." With the same specific name still retained, it has been severally referred by 
botanists to Cymbidium and Limodorum. A plant sent to Kew from Jamaica by Mr. Purdie, and 
grown amongst earth in a pot, blossomed in September, 1844. " The bladdery sheath seems 
destined to contain water for the nutriment of the plant." It has cream-coloured flowers arranged 
in a spike, six or eight inches long. — Bot. Mag., 4157- 
Iochro'ma tubulo v sa. This is the plant noticed at p. 213, vol. xi., as Habrothamnus cyaneus 
and together with two others, I. calycina from the woods of Guayana, and 7. grandiflora, from 
the mountains of Saragura, both discoveries of Mr. Hartweg's — has been separated to form a 
new genus. Mr. Hartweg found this plant in the form of a shrub, from four to six feet high, 
growing on the mountains of Yongana, near Loxa. It flowered in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society in August, 1844. Bot. Reg., 20. 
J^obe'lia tiiapso'idea. This species so far excels even the most stately and showy plants in 
the genus, as to have obtained from De Candolle the epithet of Lobeliarum princeps. Pohl 
gives the height as six feet. Mr. Gardner, to whom our stoves owe the possession of this fine 
plant, gathered specimens measuring eight feet. The collections at the Kew, Glasgow, and 
Dublin Botanic Gardens, contain plants of it. The stem is herbaceous and leafy, something like 
