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tapered into a fine point. The lateral sepals are quite destitute of hairiness, and only faintly 
stained with purple." It is a native of Manilla, whence it was received by Messrs. Loddiges, 
who flowered it in March, 1841. — Bot. Reg. 61. 
Cle'matis monta^na ; var. grandiflo^ra. " This handsome variety of the very fragrant 
Clematis montana flowered in the open ground in the garden of Mr. Veitch, of Exeter, at the 
same time with the ordinary form of the plant, of which the blossoms are not half so large. Both 
are well worth cultivating in gardens, where there is accommodation for climbers. The profusion 
of lai'ge flowers, the delicacy of their colours, and their fragrance, are strong recommendations. 
The species is a native of Northern India, Dr. Buchanan Hamilton collected it at Chittong, in 
the valley of Nepal, flowering in April. Mr. Blinkworth gathered it in Kamoon, and Dr. Royle 
notices it as prevalent in the Himalayan mountains, at an elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet 
above the level of the sea. In our country it flowers in early summer, and indeed, through the 
month of September. In a few years it ought to become a very general plant, for it strikes readily 
from cuttings, and from layers." Bot. Mag. 4061. 
Convo'lvulus ocella^tus. — "A very neat Evolvulous-like species of Bind-weed, discovered by 
Mr. Burke, at Macalisberg, in the interior of Southern Africa, and raised from seeds in the green- 
house of the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, where it produced its pretty white 
flowers with a purple eye, in the month of August. I can find no Convolvulus,^^ says Sir W. J. 
Hooker, "anywhere described, that corresponds with it. Indeed, I should have referred it to 
Evolvulus, but for the style and stigmas, which are truly those of a Convolvulus. The corolla is, 
as it were, intermediate between those two genera, between campanulate and salver-shaped ; 
scarcely to be called rotate." It is a shrubby plant, procumbent at the base, bearing numerous 
almost erect, silky branches, and rather thickly clothed with linear foliage. The flowers are 
borne singly on axillary peduncles. Bot. Mag. 4065. 
Cro'ci Autumna^les. Under this title, figures are given of five species of autumn-flowering 
Crocuses, viz., C. pulchellus, longiflorus, odorus, Thomasianus, Pallasianus, and Cartwrightianus. 
The Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert writes of them that " the first was sent to Spoff'orth by the 
kindness of J. Cartwright, Esq., H. M. Consul-general at Constantinople. Having seen a dried 
specimen of the plant from Roumelia, confounded with C. specioms in SirW. J. Hooker's herba- 
rium, I requested that search might be made for it in the forest of Belgrade, where I thought 
it likely to grow, and there it was found in flower without any leaf in October. It diff'ers from all 
knownCroci in having white anthers and pollen. The filaments are also remarkable, being yellow 
and hairy, C. longiflorus is a native of Italy and Sicily, and flowers with us in October, or 
sometimes later, the leaf accompanying the flower, which is very fragrant, of a pale-reddish lilac, 
with the tube yellowish, and the throat of very deep yellow. It is closely akin to C. odorus, of 
Mount Verdala, in Malta, whereof the leaves rather precede the flowers, and which has the throat 
vei'y much paler, and the sepals and tube striped with purple. C. Thomasianus has much affinity 
to C. sativus, and is a native of Italy. C. Cartwrightianus was obtained last summer from the 
Greek island Tino by J. Cartwright, Esq., and was before unknown. It is evidently akin to C. 
Pallasianus. C. Pallasianus is found in Tauria, and said to grow also in the Cyclades, but is 
not sufficiently known and examined. The figure given is from a dry specimen found by Professor 
Besser in Tauria, for the sake of comparison with C. Cartwrightiatms." These are all beautiful 
plants, and deserve to be grown as well on this account, as from the period at which they bloom. 
Bot. Reg. 3. 
Cyno'ches ventrico'sum ; var. Egertonia'num. The concluding plate of Mr. Bateman's 
splendid work on the Orchidacese of Mexico and Guatemala, with its accompanying pages, are 
devoted to a most remarkable transformation of Cynoches ventricosnm into that kind ©f Cynoches 
which has been called C. Egertoniamim ; and a history of their transformation is there recorded. 
The same subject is taken up by Professor Lindley, in the November Number of the Botanical 
Register, 1843, (Supplement), and a beautiful wood-cut is given of a portion of a raceme, bearing 
the flowers of the two kinds and intermediate states. There can be no doubt, therefore, of the 
propriety of considering them as varieties of one and the same species ; a conclusion which could 
not be arrived at by anything short of such ocular demonstration. In one respect Mr. Bateman's 
figure is still more remarkable, for the same pseudo-bulb bears two racemes, one of them exhibiting 
perfect flowers of C. ventricosnm, and the other perfect C. Egertonianum, as if from the eff'ect 
