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LOPHOSPERMUM ERUBESCENS; var. SPECTABILE. 
(showy reddish-flowered LOPHOSPERMUM.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMA. 
NATURAL ORDKR. 
SCROPHULARIACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted; segments large, ovate-lanceolate, with a quincuncial aestivation. 
Corolla bilabiate, tubular ; tube campanulate, a little curved, contracted above the base, elongated, 
gibbous, forward at the base, dilated at the throat, and furnished with two rows of interwoven yellow 
hairs ; upper lip almost erect ; lower lip spreading. Stamens four, didynamous. Seeds very 
numerous, ovate-truncate, tubercled, black, fixed to large placentae. — Deri's Card, and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant subshrubby, evergreen. Stems climbing; branches covered with short, 
jointed, viscid hairs. Leaves partially cordate, imperfectly five-lobed, downy ; lobes mucronate, 
notched at the margin. Flowers rosy-pink. 
Var. Spectabile. — Flowers with many large and distinct spots of white. 
This is a lovely variety of a plant known to all admirers of flowers, and almost 
as universally grown. From its peculiar beauty, and the exceedingly delicate and 
interesting spottings of its charming flowers, we have thought it worthy both to 
grace our pages, and to embellish the greenhouses or flower-gardens of British 
culturists. 
In its origin, it affords a striking proof of the advantages likely to result from 
the more general propagation of our commonest garden ornaments by seeds ; being 
simply a seedling, accidentally raised, as we believe, and without any artificial 
impregnation, from seeds of L. erubescens. The credit of originating so pleasing a 
variation from the old species is due to Mr. T. Ansell, of the Camden Nursery, 
Camden Town, by whom it was obtained in the year 1838, but did not flower till 
the following season. On account of its profuse production of flowers, and their 
prettily mottled character, Mr. Ansell gave it the name with which it is here 
published ; and informs us, that as the stock of it was nearly lost in the winter of 
1839, it is by no means yet abundant. We first saw it at Messrs. Henderson's, 
Pine-apple Place, in the summer of 1839 ; and with a better specimen which 
