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opposite, ovate, acuminate, and covered with white 
bristly hairs. The petioles are very short. The 
flower-spike terminal and leafy. The flowers are 
solitary, springing from the axils of the leaves. 
The peduncles are short and hairy. The calyx 
persistent, long, cylindrical, tubular, gibbose at the 
base, oblique, lower part bright yellow-green, upper 
part tinged Avitli rosy-purple. The corolla consists 
of six petals, of a rich deep carmine purple, the 
two upper ones are broad, four lower ones small, 
and with long claws. The stamens are enveloped 
in a purple downy substance. 
Of the history of this pretty 
little plant nothing is with 
certainty known. We found 
it flowering in the nursery of 
Messrs. Low and Son, of Clap- 
ton, and had a drawing of it 
prepared in September, 1848. 
In habit and shape of flower it 
greatly resembles C. mmiata, 
figured in our Magazine of 
Botany, vol. xiv., t. 101 ; the 
chief difference consisting in 
the colour of the flower, which, 
in our present subject, is of a 
bright rosy purple. Whether 
it is really a distinct species or 
only a hybrid, it is difficult with 
certainty to ascertain, but it is 
not improbable but it may 
prove to be the latter. In the 
nursery of Messrs. Knight and 
Perry, at Chelsea, it grew vigo- 
rously and bloomed freely in the 
open border last summer, and 
there bore the name of Guphea 
hyhrida, Avhich, perhaps, tells 
the true history of its origin. 
Upwards of seventy species of 
Cuphea are known and bave 
been described, many of which 
are very handsome ; all are natives of warm climates, 
chiefly within the tropics at diff'erent altitudes, but 
none have been found in sufficiently elevated localities 
to render them perfectly hardy in Britain. Several, 
however, will grow in the open air during summer 
if planted in a well-drained light soil, and in a warm 
situation ; amongst these our present plant may be 
classed. When in flower during the whole of the 
autumn, it forms a very pretty border plant, and 
certainly deserves cultivating amongst a selection 
of herbaceous plants, but its stems grow too tall 
and leafy for it ever to become sufficiently con- 
spicuous for grouping in the flower-garden. It may 
be easily propagated by cuttings of the half-ripened 
stems planted in light soil, or by dividing the roots. 
Allamanda Sohottii {Mr. Schott's Allamanda). 
This is a scandent shrub. The stems and older 
branches are smooth, but the young branches 
downy. Leaves three or four in a whorl, petiolate, 
large, lanceolate, acuminate, itapering to both 
ends. Petioles short, downy, with two small, acute 
stipules at the base. Flowers paniculate, terminal, 
and axillary. Calyx deeply cut into fine ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate segments. Corolla large, of 
a clear rich yellow, funnel-shaped, tube long, and 
very narrow at the lower part, but wide and cam- 
panulate towards the top ; limb divided into fine, 
spreading, rounded segments. The genus Alla- 
manda is the Orelia of Aubl., the Galanips of 
Allamand,tlieEchites of Roem. andSchultz, and the 
Allamanda of Linn., De Candolle, and others. The 
present species is the Allamanda Schottii of Polil. 
Bras, i., p. 73, t. 50 ; De Cand. Prod, ix., 309 ; and 
Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 4351. The Allamanda Bra- 
ziliensis of Schott, and the Allamanda cathartica of 
Schrad. in Diar., 1821, p. 707. 
This fine species bloomed in the nursery of 
Messrs. Henderson, Pineapple-place, London, in 
October last. It was procured by those gentlemen 
from Mrs. Spooner, of Oak Villa, Southampton, 
who raised it from Brazilian seeds, presented to 
her by some of her friends. After being in her 
possession seven years, it flowered for the first time 
in the autumn of 1847, and proved itself a first- 
class stove plant, being a profuse bloomer, and 
possessing a very ornamental habit. 
Seven species of Allamanda have been described 
by De Candolle in his " Prodromus ; " the genus, 
however, is imperfectly known, and much confusion 
has in consequence hitherto existed. Two kinds 
were figured by us in our Magazine of Botany; 
the first, in vol. viii., t. 77, under the name of 
A. cathartica of Linnaeus, and others ; it is, however, 
identical with A. Linn^i of Pohl, and some other 
authors. The second is figured in vol. xii., t. 79, 
and is there named A. grandiflora, with an inti- 
mation that it may not be a distinct species but 
only a variety of A. cathartica ; subsequent observa- 
tions and experience have proved our supposition 
to be correct. The A. grandiflora is only a variety 
of A. cathartica, and is identical Avith the A. Aubletii 
of Pohl, the Orelia grandiflora of Aublet, the 
