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: ipered into a fine point. The lateral sepals are quite destitute of hairiness, and only faintly 
i ;ained with purple.” It is a native of Manilla, whence it was received by Messrs. Loddiges, 
ho flowered it in March, 1841. — Bot. Reg. 61. 
Cle'matis monta'na ; var. grandiflo'ra. “ This handsome variety of the very fragrant 
'lematis montana flowered in the open ground in the gai’den of Mr. Veitch, of Exeter, at the 
ime time with the ordinary form of the plant, of which the blossoms are not half so large. Both 
re well worth cultivating in gardens, where there is accommodation for climbers. The profusion 
f large flowers, the delicacy of their colours, and their fragrance, are strong recommendations, 
he species is a native of Northern India. Dr. Buchanan Hamilton collected it at Chittong, in 
Te valley of Nepal, flowering in April. Mr. Blinkworth gathered it in Kamoon, and Dr. Royle 
otices it as prevalent in the Himalayan mountains, at an elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet 
bove the level of the sea. In our country it flowers in early summer, and indeed, through the 
lontli of September. In a few years it ought to become a very general plant, for it strikes x'eadily 
•om cuttings, and from layers.” Bot. Mag. 4061. 
: Convo'lvulus ocella'tus. — “ A very neat Evolvulous-like species of Bind-weed, discovered by 
Ir. Burke, at Macalisberg, in the interior of Southern Africa, and raised from seeds in the green- 
ouse of the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, where it produced its pretty white 
l owers with a purple eye, in the month of August. “ I can find no Convolvulus ,” says Sir W. J. 
looker, “anywhere described, that corresponds with it. Indeed, I should have referred it to 
7 volvulus , but for the style and stigmas, which are truly those of a Convolvulus. The corolla is, 
s it were, intermediate between those two genera, between campanulate and salver-shaped ; 
sarcely to be called rotate.” It is a shrubby plant, procumbent at the base, bearing numerous 
lmost erect, silky branches, and rather thickly clothed with linear foliage. The flowers are 
orne singly on axillary peduncles. Bot. Mag. 4065. 
; Cro'ci Autumna'les. Under this title, figures are given of five species of autumn-flowering 
j lrocuses, viz., C. pulchellus, longi/lorus, odorus, Thomasianus, Pallasianus , and Cartwrightianus. 
'he Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert writes of them that “the first was sent to Spofforth by the 
indness of J. Cartwright, Esq., H. M. Consul-general at Constantinople. Having seen a dried 
pecimen of the plant from Roumelia, confounded with C. speciosus in SirW. J. Hooker’s herba- 
ium, I requested that search might be made for it in the forest of Belgrade, where I thought 
p likely to grow, and there it was found in flower without any leaf in October? It differs from all 
nownCroci in having white anthers and pollen. The filaments are also remarkable, being yellow 
nd hairy. C. longi/lorus is a native of Italy and Sicily, and flowers with us in October, or 
S ometimes later, the leaf accompanying the flower, which is very fragrant, of a pale-reddish lilac, 
j/ith the tube yellowish, and the throat of very deep yellow. It is closely akin to C. odorus , of 
j lount Verdala, in Malta, whereof the leaves rather precede the flow r ers, and which has the throat 
ery much paler, and the sepals and tube striped with purple. C. Thomasianus has much affinity 
jo C. sativus, and is a native of Italy. C. Cartwrightianus was obtained last summer from the 
|ireek island Tino by J. Cartwright, Esq., and was before unknown. It is evidently akin to C. 
pallasianus. C. Pallasianus is found in Tauria, and said to grow also in the Cyclades, but is 
pot sufficiently knowm and examined. The figure given is from a dry specimen found by Professor 
i lesser in Tauria, for the sake of comparison with C. Cartwrightianus .” These are all beautiful 
lants, and deserve to be grown as well on this account, as from the period at which they bloom. 
Pot. Reg. 3. 
i Cyno'ches ventrico'sum ; var. Egertonia'num. “ The concluding plate of Mr. Bateman’s 
I plendid work on the Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala, with its accompanying pages, are 
| .evoted to a most remarkable transformation of Cynoclies ventricosum into that kind of Cynoches 
diich has been called C. Egertonianum ; and a history of their transformation is there recorded, 
'he same subject is taken up by Professor Lindley, in the November Number of the Botanical 
legister, 1843, (Supplement), and a beautiful wood-cut is given of a portion of a raceme, bearing 
he flowers of the two kinds and intermediate states. There can be no doubt, therefore, of the 
•ropriety of considering them as varieties of one and the same species ; a conclusion which could 
»ot be arrived at by anything short of such ocular demonstration. In one respect Mr. Bateman’s 
igure is still more remarkable, for the same pseudo-bulb bears two racemes, one of them exhibiting 
'erfect flowers of C. ventricosum, and the other perfect C. Egertonianum, as if from the effect 
