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It is easily increased either by seeds or cuttings, grows freely in any rich garden soil, and flowers 
abundantly from July to September. The flowers are orange and pale purple. It requires the 
protection of the greenhouse during the winter. — Bot. Reg., 32. 
Cleisostoma spicatum. A Borneo plant, exhibited by Messrs. Rollissons, at the last meeting 
of the Horticultural Society. The leaves are large and broad, the flowers red and yellow, in short 
oblong spikes. — Bot. Reg., 32. 
Collania dulcis. Said to be a native of Huallay, near Pasco, in Peru, at a height of frota 
twelve or fourteen thousand feet above the sea, and to be called by the country people Campanulas 
coloradas. The stems grow about a foot high, and the purple and green flowers are produced at 
the termination. If kept in the greenhouse nearly dry after its stalks decay, it will shoot again in 
April, and after standing out of doors, plunged in a sand bed, during the summer, it flowers in 
October or as late as December. — Bot. Reg., 34. 
Epidendrum plicatum. This fine species has been introduced from Cuba, by Messrs. Loddiges, 
with whom it flowered last January. It is remarkable for the petals, which are green inside, 
with a few purplish stains near the point, being of a deep rich violet on the outside. The sepals 
are greenish, stained with dull purple on both sides. The lip is of a very rich purple. — Bot. 
Reg., 35. 
Gardenia malleifera. Sir William Hooker's first knowledge of this fine plant, with its large, 
white, fragrant flowers (not unlike the odour of primroses), and extraordinarily large and clapper- 
shaped stigma, so large and so heavy, that it rests, as it were, on the lower side of the flower, was 
from dried specimens sent by Miss Turner, daughter of the then Governor of Sierra Leone. Tho 
introduction of living specimens is due to Mr. Whitfield, who collected for the Right Hon. the Earl 
of Derby, to whose stoves at Knowsley, this and many other plants of rare beauty were introduced 
in 1843. This species loves heat and moisture, and, planted in a good sized pot, with a mixture 
of heath mould and loam, makes rapid progress, and begins to flower when only two or three 
feet high. It would seem in its native country to form a large shrub. — Bot. Mag., 4307. 
Henfreta scandens. The climbing habit of this plant is an unusual feature in the order to 
which it belongs, probably nearly related to Thonning's Ruellia quaterna, another West African 
climbing plant, with white flowers. This species seems to be common at Sierra Leone ; it was 
found there by Mr. George Don, and also by Mr. Whitfield, the latter of whom introduced it in a 
living state. Amongst the numerous plants of climbing habit which adorn our stoves, Henfreya 
scandens is assuredly a subject deserving our notice. Under the most liberal and satisfactory cultiva- 
tion, it never ranges beyond proper limits. Its foliage is not subject to injury, being also dark green, 
coriaceous, and permanent, contrasting admirably with the delicate, white, Petunia-like flowers, 
which are produced in the utmost abundance in racemes, at the angle of every leaf, continuing to 
throw out a succession of bloom for several months. — Bot. Reg., 31. 
Ipomcea pulchella. A very handsome stove Bindweed, which flowered with Mrs. Sherborne, 
near Prescott, Lancashire, the seeds having been received by that lady from Ceylon. It is identical 
with C. heptaphyllus of Roxburgh, and C. bellus of Spr. Syst. Veget. — Bot. Mag., 4305. 
Megacunium velutinum. — An Orchidaceous plant,'nearly related to\M.falcatum, from which its 
lateral sepals, velvety inside, distinguish it. The flowers are deep purple, as well as rachis, except 
the upper sepals and petals, which are dull yellow. Messrs. Loddiges imported it from Cape Coast 
Castle.— Bot. Reg., 32. 
Solanum jasminoides. This very pretty climbing plant seems to vary in the colour of its flowers. 
When we figured it in the Mag. Bot., vol. viii. to v., the specimen from which our drawing was 
made, produced in a Camellia-house, was pale blue ; in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 
where it is trained against a south wall in the open air, its flowers are nearly white ; in both states 
it is a great ornament. — Bot. Reg., 33. 
Thibaudia pulcherrima. Imagine a branch four feet and a half long, dividing only at the top 
in from four to six rather short, leafy ramuli ; the leaves evergreen, six to eight inches long ; the 
old, long, and woody portion of the stem throwing out, on one side, numerous crowded clusters, 
or drooping sessile umbels, of from twelve to twenty blossoms in each umbel, and in all states of 
progress, from the early buds, when they, as well as the pedicels, are scarlet, variegated with pale 
but bright green, to the fully expanded corollas, an inch long, narrowly campanulate, of an 
ochraceous red, veined and chequered (something like the flower of the Fritillaria Melagris) with 
