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very like the variety from Delagoa Bay, but the tube of the flowers is half as long 
again. The blossoms are of a deep red hue. Bot. Mag. 3870. 
Impatiens r6sea. Decidedly the neatest and prettiest of the numerous 
Himalayan Balsams that has yet been figured. It is an annual species, by no 
means so rambling or luxuriant as most of its recently-introduced congeners, with 
pubescent stems, long, narrow^, serrated foliage, and a cluster of lovely, rosy pink 
blossoms in the axils of the leaves. The whole of the back portion of the flowers 
is much the darkest. The seed-pods are conspicuously clothed with a whitish 
woolly substance. It can be managed as a tender annual, and kept in the green- 
house. Seeds were given to the Horticultural Society by the Court of Directors 
of the Hon. East India Company. Bot. Beg. 27- 
LffiLiA ACUMINATA. A native of Guatemala, where it was found by Mr. Hart- 
weg, growing on the trunk of the Calabash-tree, and generally producing a corymb 
of seven or eight charming flowers. Plants, however, that have flowered in three 
English collections, have only borne two blossoms, and hence its extreme beauty is 
only known by dried specimens. It is most like h. rubescens^ from which it 
" difi*ers in its larger wrinkled pseudo-bulbs, larger and more corymbose flowers, 
and in the difibrent form of the labellum." The blossoms are of a delicate blush 
colour, becoming purplish towards the interior, and having a tinge of yellow in the 
lip. It will no doubt thrive besii on a block of wood, kept in a cool dry house in 
winter. The delightful and fragrant flowers appear in December and January. 
Bot. Beg. 24. 
PosoQUERiA VERSICOLOR. At first called Oxyanthiis versicolor., but now 
published under the present appellation. "With Oxyanthus it corresponds in the 
absence of hairs from the throat, and in the long filaments ; with Posoqueria in the 
oblique corolla ; from Oxyanthus it diff'ers in the latter circumstance, from Poso- 
queria in its naked throat and very prominent anthers." After all. Dr. Lindley 
considers the essential characteristic of Posoqueria is its oblique corolla, and hence, 
that this species belongs to that genus. It is a fine stove shrub, with very long, 
pendent, sweet-scented blooms, v^hich are first white, then pink, and finally rich 
crimson. We saw it blooming at Messrs. Loddiges in August, 1840 ; and these 
gentlemen imported it from Cuba. Bot. Beg. 26. 
Sprekelia CYBisTER. This singular plant was added to British collections from 
Bolivia, by Mr. Knight, of the King's Road, Chelsea. The changes in the figure 
and position of its germen, and the disposition of the outer segments of the perianth, 
are very peculiar. The flowers are elevated on a strong stalk, being partly pendent, 
crimson, tipped with green. " The leaves do not appear till after the flowers are 
passed, or if the point of a leaf appears, its progress is suspended. The plant likes 
rich alluvial loam, and should be left dry in the winter in the greenhouse." It 
flowers in the month of April, if treated as a greenhouse species. Bot. Mag. 3872, 
