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sometimes heart-shaped and undivided. The whole genus is worth cultivation, and some of the 
species are extremely handsome. They amount to forty-five, according to M. Adrien Jussieu, and 
are found in most of the warmer parts of South America, especially Brazil. Some of them are 
Banisterias of authors. Of the cultivation of this plant we can, of course, know nothing certain. 
It is, however, probable, that it will prove suited to a greenhouse ; but as it is found trailing 
among stones, it will no doubt require full exposure to all the sunlight that can be obtained in this 
climate. Probably the treatment given to melons will suit it during summer. We should add, 
however, that the correspondent who sent it states, that it is a free flowerer, growing luxuriantly 
in a moist stove." Bot. Reg. 7. 
Turr^'a loba'ta. *' This very rare stove plant flowered at Chiswick House last July. His 
Grace the Duke of Devonshire received it from Mr. Whitfield, who collected it in Sierra Leone, 
The flowers have much the appearance of those of the Orange, but have no smell. The nearest 
affinity of this plant is evidently with the T. heterophylla of Smith, a species from the same 
country, and apparently very like it. But Mr. Bennett, in his revision of the genus in Horsfield's 
PlantcB Javanicw, places T. heterophylla in a section having from ten to twenty cells to the ovary; 
this, however, has most certainly only five cells, with two ovules in each. The stamens are 
formed into a tube, and the head of the style is club-shaped, with five stigmas projecting beyond 
it. The twenty awl-shaped reflexed teeth, which form a kind of coronet to this tube, stand in 
pairs between the ten anthers, and are apparently lateral processes of the stamens, one of each 
pair belonging to a different stamen. There i% something very singular in the placentce, which 
are densely covered with entangled twisted jointed hairs, the nature and use of which require 
further examination." The plant appears to be a dwarf evergreen shrub, with three-lobed and 
toothed leaves, and pure white flowers. Bot. Reg. 4. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS FLOWERING IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN NURSERIES 
AND GARDENS. 
Bego^nia manica'^ta. a very profuse flowering species, growing two or three feet high, with 
fine broad shining foliage. The flowers are borne in rather diff'use panicles, and are of a pale 
pink hue, with a deeper tint at the margin of the petals. It is remarkable for the fringed edges 
of the leaves, and the crimson setaceous appendages that surround the upper part of the leaf- 
stalk. It seems to delight in a rather moist atmosphere. Specimens are flowering in the stoves 
of Mr. Knight, of Chelsea, and Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, as well as in several of the suburban 
gardens. 
Coleone'ma tenuifo'lia. This is a neat and elegant greenhouse plant ; and, though its flowers 
are small, and, when viewed singly, are far from being showy, yet as they are borne profusely, 
and near the extremity of the shoots, they are by no means void of attraction. They are of a 
pink hue when first expanded, but afterwards become paler ; a circumstance which rather 
increases than detracts from their effect, as the plants are continually developing new blossoms 
throughout the spring months, and thus presenting a greater variety of tint. The branches are 
very slender, but sufficiently rigid and numerous to preserve a shrubby and compact habit. As 
the name implies, the leaves are narrow and tenuous, and give the plant something of a heath- 
hke appearance. We saw it at Mrs. Lawrence's, of Ealing Park, where an excellent specimen is 
just beginning to expand its blossoms. Being a species which throws out an abundance of roots, 
it requires plenty of pot-room, and a liberal supply of water during the growing season, to 
maintain it in a vigorous condition. 
CYRTOcHf LUM MACULA^ TUM, var. A supcrior variety of this species is blooming at Mrs. Law- 
rence's. The colours of the flowers are more distinctly marked, and clearer and brighter than 
in the original species. It does not appear to diff"er in the magnitude of the blossoms, but the 
spikes we saw were shorter and less vigorous : possibly, however, this may not be general. 
Dendro'bium lingu^efo'rme. We notice this plant, which has been in the country a few years, 
not so much for the beauty of its blossoms individually, as for their showy appearance in the 
mass. It belongs to the same section of the genus as D. calamifdrmey but is much more robust 
in habit. The leaves are very thick and fleshy, and, as the name indicates, are formed like a 
tongue. They are produced on a creeping stem, which also emits an abundance of roots from its 
lower surface. The flower spikes are erect, rising three or four inches, and bearing a profusion 
