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with red. It was introduced by Thomas Carey Palmer, Esq. of Bromley, and 
flowered, for the first time, in Mr. Knight's nursery of the King's Road, in 1834. 
It is a stove shrub and native of Bengal, towards the Sylhet borders, and about 
Gualpara. Bot Reg., 1892. 
THE FIGWORT TRIBE (SCROPHUL ARINE^e). 
Antirrhinum glandulosum. Glandular Snapdragon. A pretty plant, and 
certainly a geographical curiosity on account of it being the first species of this 
genus found wild in the New World : specimens of A. orontium have been met 
with in the United States, but they are believed to have been introduced from 
Europe. It is quite hardy, and produces its pinkish white flowers about August 
and September, which continue to open till the frosts come ; any soil will suit it, 
it ripens seed in abundance. Bot. Reg., 1893. 
sarracenia rubra, red side-saddle flower (sarracenie^). 
A truly beautiful species, and as Dr. Hooker says, rarely met with in this 
country, owing, most probably, to its being difficult to cultivate, and shy of flower- 
ing. The most striking feature in the flower is, the rich colour of the petals, 
which is of a deep red, except a little green at the base ; they are five in number 
of a broadly-ovate figure, spreading at the base, the other portion suddenly decurved 
and flaccid. Many roots were sent from New Orleans by Mr. Drummond, one of 
which flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden in the spring of the present year 
1836. Bot. 3fa^.,3515. 
THE JUSTICIA TRIBE ( ACANTH ACEiE). 
Strobilanthes sabiniana. Mr. Sabine's Strobilanthes. A very beautiful 
stove plant, a native of Nepal, whence it was introduced to our gardens by Dr. 
Wallich, who named it in compliment to Joseph Sabine Esq., to whom horticul- 
ture, no less than natural history in general, is most deeply indebted. Its flowering 
season is the latter end of winter, when several of the numerous purple spikes (the 
flowers are a bluish purple) have a succession of flowers ; two on each, never more, 
being open at one time. In many collections this species is called Ruellia Sabiniana^ 
and was thus named in Bot. Reg., t. 1238. Bot. Mag., 3517. 
begoniace^. 
Begonia sanguinea. Blood-red Begonia. This plant, more remarkable for 
the colour and texture of its leaves than elegant in its form, was raised at the 
Botanic Garden of Berlin, from seed transmitted by M. Sello, from Brazil, in 1823, 
and communicated to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1832. It flowers in the 
stove in April. Bot. Mag., 3520. 
THE BERBERRY TRIBE (bERBERIDE^). 
Berberis empetrifolia. Crow-berry-leaved Barberry. This species forms 
a low procumbent shrub, with slender, twiggy, angular branches, covered with a 
chesnut coloured bark. The flowers are solitary, or in pairs of an orange yellow 
colour, rather large and spreading. It is found in the straits of Magellan^ 
