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BEGONIACE^. 
Begonia insignis. Noble-flowered Beg-onia. This is one of our most 
beautiful hot-house plants in the months of December and January, when it 
produces its lovely semitransparent rose-coloured flowers ; it was introduced from the 
Berlin Garden, and is supposed to be a Brazilian species. Bot. Reg. 1996. 
THE ROSE TRIBE (rOSACE^). 
FIoRKELiA FUSCA. Dusky Horkelia. An erect hardy herbaceous perennial, 
with a glandulous pubescent stem and pinnate leaves, six and seven cleft. The 
plants of this g-enus resemble some Potentillas in their general appearance^ but with 
flowers collected into heads, ung-uiculate petals, a campanulate calyx, and ten 
stamens, often with ovate petaloid filaments. It is a native of California, flowering* 
from June to August, and is readily increased from seeds, or by divisions of the roots. 
Bot. Reg. 1997. 
THE BEAN TRIBE (LEGUMINOSJe). 
Chorizema Henchmanni. Mr. Henchman's Chorizema. A beautiful 
upright shrub, with numerous downy branches, and small dark green, nearly 
glabrous leaves. It was discovered by the late Mr. Baxter, on the South-West 
Coast of New Holland, and named by Dr. Brown, in compliment to Francis 
Henchman, Esq., through whom it was introduced to the Clapton Nursery. In the 
greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden the plants blossom in April and May. 
The flowers are of a brick-red, with a yellow eye; they continue in perfection a long 
time. Bot. Mag. 3607. 
(lobeliace^). 
Lobelia erinoides. Erinus-like Lobelia. A pretty little greenhouse 
annual, with several spreading decumbent branches thrown out from the crown of 
the root ; leaves glabrous, mostly petiolate, those from the root and lower part of 
the stem spathulate, toothed, the upper ones linear and entire ; the flowers are 
solitary and produced from the axils of the upper leaves ; the corolla is a purplish 
white, with the mouth beautifully and regularly marked with deep purple and two 
yellow spots. It was first introduced so long ago as the year 1759, but was soon 
after lost to the country till 1835, when seeds of it were received at the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden from the Baron Ludwig, of the Cape of Good Hope, of which 
place it is a native. It flowers in July and August. Bot. Mag. 3609. 
the FIGWORT tribe (sCROPHULARINEiE). 
Lophospermum scandens. Climbing Lophospermum. This is a very 
ornamental climbing plant, clothed with soft, spreading, articulated, viscid hairs ; 
the stem is cylindrical, with alternate dark-green leaves, from two to three inches 
long, and from one to two inches broad. The plant was first introduced in 1835, 
having been raised from Mexican seeds by Mr. Shepherd of the Liverpool Botanic 
Garden. In habit it comes nearer to L. atrosanguinea, and in the form of its 
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