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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR AUGUST. 
Angulo'a Ru'ckeri. " This charming plant makes the third species now in our gardens of a 
genus which, in the spring of 1844, was a botanical puzzle. Such is the progress of scientific 
discovery when promoted by horticultural enterprise." It "is immediately recognised by its 
flowers having deep crimson spots on a yellow ground, and a deep crimson lip. The form of the 
latter, again, approaches that of A. Cloimsii, but it is less hairy, and the lateral lobes are blunt, as 
well as shorter. Moreover, the flower is not resupinate in the common acceptation of the term- 
The species was amongst the most striking of all the Orchids exhibited in the garden of the Horti- 
cultural Society in May last, at which time the accompanying drawing was made." Each of the 
species above alluded to are discoveries of Mr. Linden's, but of the native habitats of two of them 
nothing is known ; A. Ruckeri is one of the latter, and is the species noticed at page 141. — Bot. 
Reg. 41. 
Asysta'sia coromandelia v na. " A frequent plant in India, according to Dr. Wallich, and 
the wonder is that it has not before now been introduced into our collections. The Kew Gardens 
owe the possession of it to Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place, Eclgware Road. It flourishes 
in stove-heat, and flowers throughout the autumn. The genus A sy stasia (of the meaning of the 
word, as applicable to the plants that bear it, I am ignorant) was founded by Blume on a Java 
species, and Nees has abstracted ten others from the old Ruellia, and among them the handsome 
A. Neesiana, figured in the PI. Asiat. Rar. t. 83 ; and to which genus, I presume, may be also 
referred the Ruellia lilacina, Bot. Mag., t. 4147. The present one is perhaps the handsomest of 
the genus, from the large racemes of deep lilac flowers ; Nees calls them blue, but he judges, 
perhaps, from the colour in dried specimens." The plant is " somewhat shrubby, branched," and 
has " opposite, ovato-cordate, soft leaves," and bears its racemes of flowers at their axils. Syno- 
nymes — Ruellia coromandeliana, R. secunda, R. intrusa, R. obliqua, Justicia Gangelica. — Bot. 
Mag. 4248 
Allople'ctus re'pens. " A pretty Gesneriaceous plant, probably scandent upon the trunks of 
trees, and rooting among the dead bark and moss. It is a stove plant, native of the damp woods in 
the ascent of the Sierra Nivada St. Martha, and was thence sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by 
our collector, Mr. Purdie. A comparison of this with the figure of Alloplcctus diclirons, at Tab. 
4216, will show that the essential characters of the two are the same as to genus. It flowers in 
February," is " a small, shrubby plant, with trailing stems and branches," and " rather small, 
ovate, fleshy " leaves, and axillary flowers with a large, loose, spreading calyx, pale-green, blotched 
with purple, and a corolla, yellow tinged with red, having four spreading segments. — Bot. 
Mag., 4250. 
Calyste'gia pube'scens. " This curious plant approaches very nearly to the C. sepium, or 
larger Bindweed of our English hedges, from which it differs in having firmer and smaller leaves, 
much narrower bracts, and a fine pubescence spread over every part. It is the first plant of its 
order that has been mentioned as producing double flowers. They are about as large as that of a 
double Anemone, but the petals are arranged with the irregularity of the Rose; they are of a pale, 
very delicate pink, and remain expanded for some days. The calyx is quite unchanged. The 
exterior petals are very much lacerated and irregular in form ; those next the centre are narrow, 
drawn together in a kind of cone ; the next central are completely concealed by those without 
them, and diminish till they are mere scales, analogous to those which may be found in the first 
buds which burst in the spring. Not a trace can be found of stamens or pistil."— Bot. Reg. 42. 
Colla'nia Andinama'rcana. " The original specimen of this beautiful plant was described by 
the Hon. and Very Rev. Mr. Herbert, from a native sample in my Herbarium, gathered by Mr. 
Mathews, on the lofty mountains of Andinamarca in Peru. Mr. William Lobb collected seeds 
of this plant in Peru, and probably in the same or in a neighbouring locality, and these have suc- 
ceeded so well as to produce the noble flowering specimen here represented, in April of the present 
year (1846). Respecting this genus, it will be seen that I adopt Mr. Herbert's character, although 
