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CORRiEA LONGIFLORA. 
(long-flowered hybrid CORRjEA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
rutace^. 
Generic Character. — Vide Vol. vii. p. 79. 
Specific Character — An hybrid plant, of rather slender habits, with comparatively narrow leaves, and 
unusually long pale rose-coloured blossoms. 
Some of Mr. Milner s beautiful hybrid Corraeas have been already described in 
this Magazine, and one raised by Mr. Beaton (C. Harrisii) has been very faithfully 
depicted. The present highly interesting kind was obtained by Mr. Milner, of 
Stockwell, from a cross-impregnation which was exceedingly productive of superior 
sorts ; and, passing into the hands of Mr. Glenny, was purchased of him by Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, & Co., of the Exeter nursery, who in 1839 possessed the entire 
saleable stock. These last gentlemen kindly had the accompanying drawing- 
prepared for us from a plant which bloomed at their establishment in December 
1839, and which is represented to us as being at that time " literally covered with 
flowers, and promising to continue in great beauty for a month or two longer." 
It derives its name from the peculiarly long and somewhat slender blossoms by 
which it is graced, and this feature constitutes its chief singularity. The habitude 
is, however, slightly distinctive, as it is less luxuriant and robust than that of most 
other hybrids, and is far more prolific of flowers, as will be apparent from the 
specimen exhibited. Being one of the first that was reared, it might be imagined 
that its characteristics have subsequently been brought out among the quantities 
that have since emanated from the same source ; but in all those which we have 
witnessed, there is nothing at all approaching C. longiflora. 
Since our remarks on C. Harrisii (p. 79) were placed in the printer s hands, 
and too late for insertion as an appendix thereto, we have received a note from 
