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FLOR [CULTURAL NOTICES. 
differ a little among each other in regard to the amount of toothing present at the sinus of the lip, 
and as to its exact form ; but they all belong evidently to the same species." — Bot. Reg., 69. 
Escallo'nia Organe'nsis. " A lovely shrub, which will probably prove hardy, first detected 
in the Organ Mountains by Mr. Gardner, and about the same time by Mr. Wm, Lobb, whose seeds, 
sent to Mr. Veitch, of Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, produced the plant from which this 
representation is taken. The stem and branches are of a rich red brown, extending to the calyx ; 
the leaves have their mid-rib in part, and the serrated margins red, and the petals are deep rose 
colour. Mr. Lobb's plant has the leaves narrower than in Mr. Gardner's specimen, but that is the 
only difference between them." — Bot. Mag., 4274. 
Heliophi'la tri'fida. A plant stated to be natural to sandy tracts near Cape Town, in the 
neighbourhood of Doornhoodge. " In our gardens it proves to be a very pretty, half-hardy 
annual, requiring to be grown in a mixture of sandy peat and loam, to which should be added a 
small portion of well decomposed leaf-mould or rotten dung. The seed should be sown about the 
end of February, in pots, and raised in a close pit or greenhouse, and treated like other half- 
hardy annuals. When the plants are sufficiently large, they should be transferred to other pots, 
not more than three or four plants being placed in each pot. It produces its gay ultramarine 
blue flowers from June to September in the greenhouse, and grows about a foot in height." 
Raised from seeds obtained at Hamburgh in the garden of the Horticultural Society. Synonyme 
H. pinnata. — Bot. Reg., 64. 
Impa x tiens Platype'tala. " There does not appear to be any description of this charming 
Balsam, which belongs to the small division of species having whorled leaves. It is most nearly 
allied to /. latifolia, or at least to the plant distributed by Dr. Wight under that name (451), but 
that species has a shorter and thicker spur, long fringe-like glands at the base of the leaves, and a 
good deal of yellowish hairiness, especially on the young shoots and ovary. The /. latifolia of 
Linnaeus is said to have alternate leaves." Noticed at page 142 of last volume as " Balsamina 
spes." — Bot. Reg., 68. 
Lyo x nia Jama'icensis. From the high mountains of Jamaica, where it was first detected by 
Swartz, and it has since been sent to us by Dr. M'Fayden and Mr. Purdie. "Mr. Linden 
finds it in Jamaica, and it is n. 1694 of his collection from that country. It flowers copiously in 
June and July in a cool frame, and only requires to be kept from frost in the winter. We are 
indebted for the living plant to Mr. Mackoy of Liege. I have ventured to unite the Andromeda 
fasciculata of Swartz with this, for the differences described in the two are no more than are 
evident on slight varieties of the same plant. The flowers are extremely delicate, semi-trans- 
parent, and of a waxy appearance ; they are, moreover, fragrant with a honey-like scent." A 
moderate-sized shrub, with spreading branches and alternate ovate-lanceolate leaves, from whose 
axils spring short racemes of white or nearly white flowers. Synonyme, Andromeda Jamaicensis. 
—Bot. Mag., 4273. 
Odonto'glossum hastila'bium. " A truly lovely Orchideous plant wholly new to our living 
collections, but known to Dr. Lindley through Linden's specimens of New Grenada. Sent to 
Kew by our collector, Mr. Purdie, who gathered it in woods on the route from Santa Martha to 
the Sierra Nivada. Linden detected it in the province of Pamplona, at an elevation of 2500 feet. 
The flowers are numerous on the raceme, large, handsome, elegantly varied with pale green, 
purple and white, and moreover highly fragrant. Our drawing was made from the plant at Syon 
Gardens, where the species blossomed in August 1846." — Bot. Mag., 4272.! 
Scutellaria Ventena'ttii. Sir William Hooker writes: — "We have here the pleasure to 
figure a still more beautiful Scutellaria than that represented at our Tab. 4268 (T. incamata), to 
which we there alluded, with far richer coloured flowers, and in other respects a good deal 
resembling it. Indeed we have already in that description, given it as our opinion that Ventenat 
had confounded this plant with the incamata. They are, however, truly distinct from each other, 
as indicated by the above characters, and from T. coccinea, H. B. K., in the cordato-ovate and 
serrated (not oblong and entire) leaves. The present species was detected in the mountains near 
Santa Martha by Mr. Purdie, and seeds were sent home by him in 1845, which were reared in 
the summer and autumn of 1846. It has been treated as a greenhouse plant, but would doubtless 
flourish and prove highly ornamental to our flower-borders." The flowers are borne in terminal 
racemes and have corollas of a bright, deep scarlet colour. — Bot. Mag., 4271. 
