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the habit (climbing, not erect) is at variance with one of that gentleman's generic distinctions, and 
the fruit is imperfectly known. The present only differs from our native specimens in its more 
luxuriant growth, and, as a species, is remarkable for its leafy racemes. It was reared in a hot- 
bed, and then removed to a cool greenhouse. The open border would, in all probability, suit this 
species best in the summer." It is a tall, straggling plant, with herbaceous stems, which are clothed 
with alternate, rather long, lanceolate, glaucous leaves. " The decurved apex of the stem bears a 
drooping umbel of racemes of flowers." The flowers are pendent, tube-shaped ; their sepals 
"orange-red, tipped with black petals " pale yellow, tipped with green." — Bot. Mag. 4247. 
Cycno'ches Egertonia v num var. vi'ride. " This plant was imported from Oaxaca, by Messrs. 
Loddiges, and flowered with them in August, 1843, when the accompanying figure was made. It 
is evidently a variety of the C. Egertonianum, distinguished by its flowers being of a pale watery 
green, and not deep purple. But what is 0. Egertonianum itself? In our volume for 1843, at 
p. 77 of the miscellaneous matter, we have extracted from Mr. Bateman's magnificent work his 
account of how the long-spiked, small, purple-flowered C. Egertonianum is only the short-spiked, 
large, green-flowered C. ventricosum ; how the same plant at one time bears one sort of flowers, 
and at another time another sort ; and we have shown how the same plant, nay the same spike, is 
both the one and the other, and neither. C. Egertonianum is then a sport, as gardeners say, of Q- 
ventricosum." Synonyme, C. stelliferum. — Bot. Beg. 46. 
Cle'matis hexase'pala. " A New Zealand plant, seeds of which were presented by J. R. 
Go wen, Esq., in 1 844, to the Horticultural Society, in whose Journal the following account is given 
of it : — e This is a little twining plant, with shining, nearly smooth, ternate or biternate leaves, 
whose petioles twine round any small body with which they may come in contact. The leaflets 
are cordate- ovate, coarsely serrated, and often three-lobed. The flowers are small, pale-green, 
very sweet scented, and appear in threes or fours from the axils of the leaves. Their stalks are 
long and hairy, and each has a pair of small bracts below the middle. The sepals are very 
uniformly six in number, of a narrowly oblong form, and spreading so as to form a small green 
star. Contrary to the usual structure of the genus, the stamens are constantly six only in number, 
and about half as long as the sepals.'" It is a hardy greenhouse plant, flowering in April. 
Synonyme, C. hexapetala. — Bot. Beg. 44. 
Frie'sia peduncula x ris. " An elegant shrub, three to six feet high, with something of Myrtle- 
like habit, as seen in our gardens, and with copious, delicate, drooping," white " flowers on 
pendent stalks. It is a native of Van Diemen's Land, and requires a cool frame or greenhouse 
for its successful cultivation. It is not improbable that near the coasts of the middle and south of 
England this pretty plant may be found to brave the winters in the open air. Only one species is 
known— the Friesia racemosa of Mr. Cunningham (from New Zealand), being as long ago correctly 
indicated by Vahl, a true Elceocarpus. The genus was named by De Candolle, in compliment to 
Elias Fries, Professor of Botany in the University of Lund, and author of various Cryptogamic 
works and other publications relating to the Flora of Sweden. Synonyme, Elosocarpus pedun- 
cularis. — Bot. Mag., 4246. 
Garde'nia flo'rida var. Fortunia v na. "The magnificent variety now figured from the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society," Dr. Lindley writes, " was sent from the north of China, by 
Mr. Fortune. In the Journal of the Society is the following account of it : — c The common 
single and double varieties of this plant are known to every one. That which is now noticed, 
differs merely in the extraordinary size of the flowers, which are nearly four inches in diameter, 
and in having fine broad leaves sometimes as much as six inches long. The flowers are pure 
white, changing to light buff as they go off, and not unlike a very large double Camellia. Their 
calyx has the long broad lobes of the original species, instead of the narrow lobes, at least twice as 
short as the tube of the corolla of G. radicans, by which that species is technically known.' " 
— Bot. Beg. 43. 
Ru'ellia li'lacina. " We have," states Dr. Lindley, "to correct a great error into which we 
fell, when, in an early number of the present volume, we referred this plant, Sir William Hooker's 
Buellia lilacina, to the so-called B. longijlora of the gardens. It now turns out that we had not 
seen this, the real B. lilacina, at the time when we fell into the mistake, and we allowed ourselves 
to be misled by a certain similarity of appearance in the drawings of the two plants, a great 
resemblance in their leaves, and by their having been both obtained from Mr. Glendinning's 
