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Dublin, in July 1839, is considered a " half-herbaceous plant," with the proba* 
bility of proving hardy enough to be planted against an exposed south wall. Mr. 
Tweedie found it in dry spots among withered grass at Entre Hios, South Brazil. 
Bot. Mag. 3786. 
Phlogacanthus curvifl6rus. For this magnificent shrub, British collections 
are mainly indebted to Dr. Wallich, superintendant of the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden. From plants communicated by this gentleman to the rich collection at 
Woburn Abbey, and primarily collected by Mr. de Silva on the mountains near 
Sylhet, flowers were abundantly protruded in November 1839. Four to six feet 
is the common height of the plant, its leaves often being a foot long, of an elliptical 
form, and triflingly crenated, with the midrib and the young shoots of a reddish 
hue. The blossoms are collected into a compact terminal raceme ; they are 
individually nearly two inches in length, of a reddish yellow colour externally, 
paler within, and tipped with green while in a young state. It is cultivated in the 
stove, and most likely requires a rather rich soil. Bot. Mag. 3783. 
RiGTDELLA FLAMMEA. There is a degree of graceful as well as more intrinsic 
beauty about this entirely new plant, which must attract the attention of every 
lover of flowers. The old Tigridia pavonia, though its blossoms are much larger, 
has scarcely more real charms. " It grows from three to five feet high, with broad 
equitant strongly plaited leaves, which are dilated at the base where they sheathe 
the stem. The flowers grow in a dense umbel from within a two-valved spathe, 
and open singly day by day ; they are drooping, and of a bright flame colour, with 
a campanulate tube, and a reflexed limb strongly marked at the base with short 
deep purple stripes." The pedicels, though drooping till the flowers have decayed, 
then become rigidly erect ; hence the generic name. It was found by Mr. Hartweg 
in Mexico, and transmitted to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it is 
cultivated similarly to Tigridia. Bot. Reg. 1 6. 
Satyrium pustulatum. One of the prettiest of terrestrial Orchidace^e, on 
account of the lively colour of its pink blossoms, which are also neatly spotted. It 
is not new to this country, but has lately been brought from the Cape of Good 
Hope by Sir John Herschel, who describes it as growing in " clai/, baked by the 
sun nearly to the consistence of a brick." Much heat, light, and, during the 
flowering season, as also afterwards, until it again begins to grow, a great degree of 
drought, are considered essential : but a cold frame, thoroughly exposed to the sun 
at all seasons, will be found perfectly suitable. The soil for it in Britain must be a 
sandy heath-mould and decayed leaves. Bot. Reg. 18. 
Solanum UNCiNELLUM. Specimens of tliis plant flowered in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society in July 1837 ; hut having since been destroyed by frost, 
its history cannot now be obtained. " It is a pretty decumbent pink-flowered 
herbaceous plant, perhaps an annual, and appeared very difierent from anything in 
the collections of this country." The chief character by which the blossoms are 
distinguished, is the small hook at the extremity of each petal. It is not distinctly 
