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blooms and the aggregate mass of inflorescence. Such a plant must be an acquisition of the 
highest order to the most fastidious collector of floral gems. Sir W. Hooker describes it as a 
species “totally distinct from that just mentioned : the only hitherto described one of the genus. 
In stature and general aspect the two appear to accord ; but the present has broader and shorter 
leaves, with much more compact (closely placed) nerves, and the limb of the corolla has five pair 
of prominent tubercles — one pair at the sinus of each lobe.” The flowers are disposed in large 
compound cymes a foot or more in diameter, at the end of the branches. On the upper side these 
are pure white, changing, however, with exposure, to a cream-colour, tinged with blush ; the 
outer surface is deep blush, and the tube red. The beauty of these is enhanced by the ample and 
rich velvety-green foliage which adorns the stem. It was raised in Mr. Pince’s nursery, Exeter, 
from seeds obtained from Nepal, and is grown there in the greenhouse. (It is apparently identical 
with the plant discovered by Mr. Gibson on the summit of the Khoseea hills, near Chirra- 
pooujee, and introduced to the Chatsworth Collection in 1838. It grows there abundantly on 
the little table-lands, in a loamy soil mixed with grit-stone sand, amongst other shrubs, such as 
Thibaudias, Oleas, and Vacciniums, and is so prodigal of its blossoms as to constitute a mass 
of inflorescence, almost concealing the stem and foliage, and perfuming the whole atmosphere 
around with its delicious fragrance.) Bot. Mag., 4132. 
OncFdium tui'color “ A very beautiful and entirely new species, with foliage resembling 
that of Oncidium triquetrum and O. pulchellum, but very different in the flowers, both as to form 
and colouring, being elegantly varied with white and yellow, and blotched with blood-coloured 
spots. It was sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew in the autumn of 1843, by the collector, 
Mr. Purdie, from Jamaica, and blossomed freely attached to a piece of wood, in March and 
April of the following year.” Bot. Mag., 4130. 
Si 'DA grave' OLENS. Concerning the native country of this .species. Sir W. Hooker says it is 
found in the East Indies and in Jamaica ; “ and is probably common to the tropics, both of the 
Old and New World ; for my young friend, M. Planchon, while arranging the two extensive 
genera, Hibiscus and Sida, in my herbarium, was struck with the great number of species that 
are common to America and Asia, and even to Africa ; more than Botanists, in general, are 
aware of. The present species, which is undoubtedly the S. graveolens of Di*. Roxburgh, the 
S. hirta of Reich enbach (if not of Lamarck), and probably, as Messrs. Wight and Arnott 
suggest, also the S. Indica and S. Asiatica of Linnaeus, has been always considered to be exclu- 
sively a native of the East Indies; but Mr. Purdie detected it growing truly wild in Jamaica : 
and seeds which he sent to the Royal Gardens produced plants which have blossomed in the 
autumn of 1844 in the stove.” It is a downy shrub, four or five feet high, with heart-shaped 
leaves, toothed on the margin, and approaching velvet on both surfaces. The flowers issue singly 
from beside the foot of the leaves, and their showy portion consists of five wedge-shaped, half 
erect, half-spreading petals, of a somewhat obscure orange-yellow colour, but rendered more 
attractive from the presence of a deep, blood-red spot near the base of each, forming a ring of 
irregular breadth round the pile of stamens. It is the Abutilon graveolens of Wight and 
Arnold. Bot. Mag., 4134. 
Stape'lia cactifo'rmIs. “ One of the most remarkable of a very remarkable genus respecting 
which it is to be regretted that many species, formerly known to our gardens, are lost, and 
scarcely any new ones have been received to take their place. Among the latter, however, may 
be reckoned the curious S. Gordoni of Masson ( Scytanthera Gordoni, Hook. Ic. pi.) which was 
detected by Mr. Burke on the Orange River, and other places in South Africa, and sent to his 
employer, the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, together with the subject of the present plate, lately 
received among a collection of plants from Little Namaqua-land, from Mr. Zeyher. It flowered 
in the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew, in August 1844.” The plant has more the look of a 
Mammillaria, or some South African Euphorbia. The flowers which are nearly sessile, and 
very smal', are collected together near the top of the stem, and in their general form, and the 
structure of their staminal crown, approach those of the sub-genus Podanthes. Bot. Mag., 4127. 
Statics macrophylla. “ Far superior to the S. arborea, or Tree Thrift of the Canaries, in 
the beauty of its flowers : it is understood to have been introduced from the same islands, by 
Mr. Smith, of the Hull Botanic Garden. In a large pot, with greenhouse culture, it produces 
its large panicles of purple and white blossoms in April, and the tw'o succeeding months. Mr. 
