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long twiggy branches, leafy below, terminating in elongated compound spikes of graceful pendant 
yellow flowers, the inside of the widely campanulate tube of which is elegantly marked with dark 
blood-coloured lines. It was detected at the Swan River Settlement by Mr. Frazer, (No. 186 of 
his collection,) who speaks of it as general on the river banks, and afterwards sent to us by Mr. 
James Drummond. Seeds were given to the Royal Dublin Society by G. W. Webb, Esq., of the 
Commissariat department there ; and these, on being raised by Mr. Moore, of the Glasnevin 
Botanic Garden, were kindly communicated to us in a fine state of flower in July, 1845. The 
plant requires a warm greenhouse in the winter ; but in summer, during the flowering season, a 
cooler place with a plentiful admission of air will be the best suited to it.” Bot. Mag. 4200. 
Bu'ddleya Lindleya'na. Was found by Mr. Fortune, the collector whom the Horticultural 
Society sent to China, soon after his arrival there. He sent home seeds, which were soon after 
raised in the garden of the Society. Dr. Lindley writes : — “ Dried specimens have now reached this 
country, and one of them is before us. It consists of a branch not quite a foot and a half long, on 
which there have been growing seven spikes of flowers, from two to three inches long each.” The 
natural appearance of those flowers will be seen from our figure. Their colour is a deep rich 
violet, a little verging upon grey, on account of the numerous short hairs with which they are 
closely covered. 
“ In cultivation this shrub has hitherto proved unwilling to flower ; it grows very vigorously, 
running to wood, as we say, and requiring some special mode of management, in order to stop its 
exuberant vegetation. It is about as hardy as a Fuchsia. The specimen figured was taken 
from a plant in the large conservatory of the Horticultural Society ; but it was by no means so 
beautiful as the wild plant must be. Probably very poor gravelly or clayey soil and a hot dry 
atmosphere would suit it much better than the rich mould usually found in gardens.” Bot. 
Reg. 4. 
Cattle'ya ma'xima. In some respects resembles C . Mossice and C . Idbiata. “ Its main pecu- 
liarities consist in its long-channelled pseudo-bulbs, and in its very convex wavy petals, which are 
quite different in appearance from the thin, nearly flat petals of C. Mossice and Idbiata. 
“ If, however, we attach any value to difference of colour, then indeed there remains no difficulty 
in separating this plant ; for it is remarkable for the dark crimson veins richly traced upon its 
pallid lip, and for a beautiful net-work of purple streaks, which is drawn over all their surface. 
At first, too, the colour of the flowers is so pale as to be almost white ; but the tints heighten day 
by day, till at last the blossoms acquire the rich tint represented in the accompanying plate.” Bot. 
Reg. 1. 
Cu'phea corda'ta. “ A truly beautiful plant, from the rich scarlet of its two large petals and 
calyces. Would that all the species of this extensive genus were as distinctly marked as the 
present one ! It is a native of hills and woods in Peru, about Huassahuassi, Chaclla, Acomayo, and 
Huanuco, and from that country seeds were sent to Mr. Veitch, of Exeter, by his collector, 
William Lobb, in 1842, from which plants were raised that blossomed in August, 1845. The 
plant is kept in the stove, and seems to flower freely there : it may be increased by cuttings.” A 
suffruticose plant, which, as well as the foliage, is downy, with herbaceous erect stems, and opposite 
ovate leaves, entire, and the largest of them two inches long, passing insensibly into bracteas as 
they approach the flowers, which are produced in terminal panicles, “ formed of lax racemes, each 
bearing two to four drooping, large, (for the genus,) almost entirely bright red, or rather scarlet 
flowers.” Bot. Mag. 4028. 
Evo'lvulus purpu'reo-c^eru'leus. “A small but most lovely little suffruticose plant, with copious 
flowers, at first sight not much unlike those of Anagallis ccerulea, but borne upon erect twiggy 
branches with small patent or reflexed leaves, and worthy a place in every garden, on account of 
the brilliant colour of its blossoms. Its nearest affinity, as to species, (and it is certainly an unde- 
scribed one,) is with Evolvulus Arbuscula of Poiret, according to the Bahama specimens in our 
herbarium, thus named by M. Choisy, the author of the ‘ Convolvulaceee,’ in De Candolle’s Prodro- 
mus ; but that has still smaller and erect leaves, not tapering at the base, like those of the one now 
before us. It inhabits arid rocks near the sea, in the district of Manchester, Jamaica, and caught 
the attention of Mr. Purdie, its discoverer, — who sent home seeds of it to the Royal Gardens of 
Kew — by its showy bright blue flowers.” A rather slender perennial, growing a foot and a half 
high, branched from the base ; the flowers, which are of a u rich ultra-marine blue,” with a white 
centre, are produced terminally. Bot. Mag. 4202. 
