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leaves similar to B. grandijlora, and flowers disposed in a corymbose order, of a form similar 
those of B. marginata. It is said to be a splendid, free-blooming kind. Still another species h 
been added under the name of B. Cunninghamii, with deep rich red flowers, twice the size ! 
B. marginata. It was found by Allan Cunningham, but no locality is mentioned.—£o^. Reg., If 
Calceola'ria, floribu'nda. Found by Mr. Lobb, in the American Tropics, and sent 
Messrs. Veitch’s nursery at Exeter, in 1843, where it flowered last September. It was discover' 
at an elevation of 11,000 feet above the sea, in the environs of Quito, and hence will probal 
prove a greenhouse plant, and perhaps thrive in the open air in summer. It is a sub-shrub' 
plant with narrow leaves, and many-flowered corymbs of pale-yellow blossoms, apparently som 
thing like those of C. thyrsiflora. — -Bot. Mag., 4154. 
Cb'strum auranti'acum. Most of this family have flowers of a greenish or some dingy coloiii 
and only recommend themselves by their occasional sweetness. The large, and clear orang 
coloured blossoms of the present, invest it with more gaiety. It forms a handsome greenhoiij 
shrub, and may probably prove useful for the open border in summer. It has dark green, shinil 
oval leaves, and is ornamented in winter with numerous snow-white, pear-shaped, berries. T* 
flowers come in spikes on the top of the branches, and have a scent of orange-peel. Mr. Skinn 
sent it from Chimaiapa, in Guatemala, to the Chiswick garden, where it flowered in August, 18l| 
It is a deciduous plant. — Bot. Reg., 22. 1 
Dysophy'lla stella'ta. Till Dr. Blume corrected the error, the Dysophylls were regardi 
as Mints ; they are common in the warmer parts of India. The Starry Dysophyll is a “ delical 
little light green plant, looking something like a Bedstraw, but more erect, and bearing spikes of t« 
prettiest little purple blossoms, which remind the observer of the spikes of a Mimosa, or some siv 
plant. The long tender filaments are directed downwards, and being covered with delicate hah 
produce the appearance of plumes of purple silk.” It is mentioned by botanists as inhabitiji, 
Malabar and Mysore. A specimen flowered last October, in the Earl of Auckland’s garden, t 
must be managed in a warm greenhouse, and looks like a plant that would thrive well, where ; 
I’oots could run amongst damp pebbles. — Bot. Reg., 23. ^ 
Gesne'ra Schiedia'na. A very pretty species, flowered last November by Mr. Forbes, ‘ ■* 
Woburn Abbey, where it was received from Mexico. “It quite agrees with the G. spicata^ 
of De Candolle (also from Mexico), and seems different, as that author suspected, from t 
original New Grenada G. spicata of Humboldt, in which the inflorescence is more truly spica 
the flowers smaller, and the corollas much less hairy. Our species is remarkable for its ricbl 
coloured blossoms, clothed with long shaggy hairs ; their colour a bright golden scarlet ; t 
limb variegated with red and yellow, the red arranged in broken lines. It is an erect-growij 
plant, with soft downy oblong leaves, generally three in a whorl, and sends out a number 
flowers from each node. [It has also flowered in the Kew collection.] Bot. Mag., 4152. 
Gove'nia utricula'ta. This singular terrestrial orchidaceous plant, “remarkable for t 
large transparent, bladdery sheath surrounding its scape and the lower part of its leaves, v 
only known for a long time through the description of Swartz, who gathered it in Jamaica a 
Hispaniola.” With the same specific name still retained, it has been severally referred ; 
botanists to Cymbidium and Limodorum. A plant sent to Kew from Jamaica by Mr. Purdie, a ' 
grown amongst earth in a pot, blossomed in September, 1844. “ The bladdery sheath seet 
destined to contain water for the nutriment of the plant.” It has cream-coloured flowers arrangj| 
in a spike, six or eight inches long. — Bot. Mag., 4157. |j 
Iochro'ma tubulo'sa. This is the plant noticed at p. 213, vol. xi., as Hahrothamnus cyanef 
and together with two others, I. calycina from the woods of Guayana, and I. grandiflora, frCj 
the mountains of Saragura, both discoveries of Mr. Hartweg’s — has been separated to fora, 
new genus. Mr. Hartweg found this plant in the form of a shrub, from four to six feet hig 
growing on the mountains of Yongana, near Loxa. It flowered in the garden of the Horticultu]|[ 
Society in August, 1844. Bot. Reg., 20. 
Lobe'lia thapso'idea. This species so far excels even the most stately and showy plants 
the genus, as to have obtained from De Candolle the epithet of Loheliarum princeps. Pc 
gives the height as six feet. Mr. Gardner, to whom our stoves owe the possession of this fi 
plant, gathered specimens measuring eight feet. The collections at the Kew, Glasgow, a 
Dublin Botanic Gardens, contain plants of it. The stem is herbaceous and leafy, something li 
