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numerous brown spots in tlie centre, is the most interesting feature. Being a 
native of the North of India, it appears quite capable of standing unsheltered in 
our borders through the summer, and is certainly a very valuable annual. Bot. 
Reg. 8. 
Impatiens tricornis. Another pretty species, procured from the same source 
as the preceding, and in some respects resembling it, but far less handsome. The 
flowers, instead of being terminal and pink, are produced in axillary racemes, and 
are of a yellow colour, the inside of the lip being spotted with reddish brown. The 
base of the lip is likewise tailed and recurved, and the seed-pods are much longer. 
It is a deserving annual, and, like the foregoing, will most probably thrive in the 
open air. India is said to contain at least a hundred species of this attractive 
genus, all of which are more or less ornamental. Bot. Reg. 9. 
MandevIlla suaveolens. Hitherto known in nurseries only by the name of 
the Chile Jasmine, this charming climber has borne a high character, which it 
seems fully to merit. Mr. Tweedie had sent seeds of it to this country from 
Buenos Ayres, but it has also been received by the Hon. W. F. Strangways from 
H. J. Mandeville, Esq., H. M. minister at the above place, and after the latter 
gentleman Dr. Lindley has named it. It has fine foliage, a graceful habit, and 
large white blossoms, which appear in axillary clusters, on long slender peduncles, 
and are very fragrant. From some experiments made in the Horticultural 
Society's Garden, it was found that the plant was destroyed in the open ground 
during winter, that when grown in a pot, although it otherwise flourished, it did 
not flower, while specimens planted in a conservatory border bloomed freely. It 
must not be restrained in summer, as the flowers are produced towards the ends of 
the shoots ; but a close pruning is requisite each winter. Bot. Reg. 7« 
Maxillaria cucullata. This very curious Maxillaria first flowered in His 
Grace the Duke of Devonshire's collection at Chatsworth, in September 1838, 
having been brought from South America by Mr. Henchman. Its pseudo-bulbs 
are oval, compressed, and one-leaved, and from the sheaths wdiich envelop them 
while in a young state, the flower-scape arises. This last is tall, jointed, covered 
with imbricated inflated scales, and surmounted by a solitary blossom, which 
resembles those of some species of Trigonidium. Purplish-brown is the principal 
colour of the flowers. The species may be cultivated as the rest of the genus and 
its associates. Bot. Reg. 12. 
POya ccerOlea. With most other plants of this order, the flowers of the 
present species seem fugitive. It is, however, a nearly hardy perennial plant, and 
hence somewhat of a novelty. A specimen of it was shown in 1838, at one of the 
Horticultural Society's exhibitions in Regent Street, by Mr. Lambert, and it has 
been grown in gardens under the name of Pourrettia ccerulea. AVith long, 
attenuated, and prickly leaves, like those of an Aloe or Pine-apple, it has strong, 
erect, branching flower-stems, and deep blue blossoms. Valparaiso is its native 
region. " If not injured by frost, it will grow in the poorest soil, and the driest 
