92 FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
glandular dots, resembling those of Hypericum. The first discovered species is a native of New 
Grenada ; the second, and only other yet known, {A. zygomeris,) is a native of Mexico, was first 
taken up by Decandolle, and afterwards more fully described in the * Linnsea,' from specimens 
gathered by Schiede in woods at Jalalingo ; and fine native specimens were collected by M. 
Galeotti, upon the Cordillera of Mexico, near the Pacific, growing in woods and by river sides, at 
an elevation of from 5500 to 8000 feet above the level of the sea. Its flowers are large, copious, 
and the foliage extremely delicate. It was introduced to this country from Paris by Messrs. 
Rollisson, of the Tooting Nursery, and by them kindly given to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where 
it blossomed copiously during the early winter months. This blossoming was probably hastened 
by its growth being checked from cuttings being taken from the plant." The flowers are deep 
yellow, and showy, while the leaves are divided into two twin pairs, and have leaflets of an 
obcordate retuse figure. Bot. Mag. 4008. 
Centradenia ro^sea. "A pretty greenhouse half-shrubby plant, introduced from Mexico by 
Messrs, Lucombe, Pince, and Co., nurserymen of Exeter, by whom it was sent in flower to the 
Horticultural Society in January last. When allowed to blossom quietly in a cool greenhouse, it 
forms a deep green bush, studded all over with gay flesh-coloured stars ; but as the petals easily 
fall, the plant does not bear travelling well. It is a soft-wooded species, growing afoot or so high, 
in sandy peat, and striking readily from cuttings. As far as we can judge from our experience of 
a few weeks, it seems to require a sunny situation, but not a dry atmosphere." Bot. Reg. 20. 
Campa'nula L(e'flingii. " A beautiful little annual, found wild in sandy places all over Por- 
tugal, also near Madrid, and in the country round Mogador. M. Alphonse Decandolle observes, 
that it has the habit of C. patula, but differs in being more branchy, in having broader and less 
acute leaves, in its annual root and deeply-furrowed capsule. The latter is indeed remarkable ; 
the three carpels of which it is composed adhere only by the middle — a circumstance by no means 
common among plants with an inferior ovary, unless in the Umbelliferous order. It is a pretty 
half-hardy plant, growing from six to nine inches high," of a very graceful habit, producing great 
numbers of blue flowers, " and requiring a light rich sandy soil. The seeds should be sown either 
in the month of August or March, and treated in the same way as Rhodanthe Manglesii, or 
similar half-hardy annuals. If sown in the autumn it should be potted singly, and kept in small 
pots placed in a dry situation free from frost during the winter ; when sown in the spring they 
may be kept in a cold frame, but where they have plenty of air, as the plants are very delicate 
and are apt to damp off*. The autumn-sown plants will flower about the end of May, those raised 
in the spring not before the middle of July. They continue a long time in flower. It may be 
grown in the open border, if planted in a warm and dry situation, after the danger of spi'ing 
frost is over." Bot. Reg. 19. 
Cro'cus insula'ris. " Many bulbs of this pretty and variable Crocus,'^ writes the Hon. and 
very Rev. W. Herbert, Dean of Manchester, " were sent to Spoff'orth, at my request, by M. Pal- 
raedo, the British Consul at Bastia, having been procured through his kind offices by Signer 
Romagnuoli, from Turiani, and the Bocca di San Antonio, three or four leagues from Bastia. 
The greatest pains were taken to discover the C. minimus of Decandolle ; it is certainly one of 
the smaller varieties of insularis, which name, given by M. Gay, though posterior, must be pre- 
served to the species, because minimus is only applicable to the smaller varieties. The species, 
which has sometimes a faint smell of primrose, approaches most nearly to the Italian C. suaveo- 
lens, from which it may be distinguished, in all its varieties, by the absence of yellow in the throat, 
which is deep both in suaveolens and imperatonianus. The absence or presence of yellow in the 
throat seems to be an invariable feature in Croci. Insularis produces usually only one shoot and 
flower, and no bract ; but the fourth rare variety found on M. Pigro and M. d 'Oleastro, 
approaches to C. versicolor, by a two-flowered involucre, and sometimes, though rarely, a lorate 
bract, and the leaf one (if not two) nerved ; but it conforms too closely with its compatriots in 
other respects to be separated as a species. They grow on the hills of schist, and are rare in the 
west of the island." The foliage is very narrow ; while the colour of the flowers seems to be a 
kind of crimson internally, and yellow, with stripes on the outside. Bot. Reg. 21. 
Cycno'ches pentada'ctylon. « The fleshy-stemmed Orchidaceae, consisting of Catasetum, 
Cycnoches, Mormodes, and Cyrtopodium, probably form a group, among which we find the most 
astonishing deviations from ordinary structure, and the most startling variations from what 
appears to be the rule in other parts of the organic world. If we were informed that the came- 
