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They are large and abundant ; and the leaves are deeply three to five-lobed. It 
was introduced by Mr. Hartweg, and is said to furnish jalap. Bot. Reg. 36. 
PotentIlla insIgnis. This plant was raised from seeds presented to the 
Horticultural Society by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, to 
whom they were transmitted through Dr. Hoyle from the north of India. It is 
doubtful whether it be a decided species. The leaves are of the^ ordinary kind, 
three-parted, with serrated lobes, and hoary on the under side. The flowers are 
numerous, large, and of a deep bright yellow colour. It is quite hardy, may be 
treated as the other herbaceous species, and will probably be useful to the hybridist 
on account of the size and fine yellow colour of its blossoms. Bot. Reg. 37* 
Salvia hians. A particularly ornamental hardy herbaceous plant, collected 
in Cashmere by Dr. Hoyle’s agents, and introduced to this country by the Court 
of Directors of the East India Company. It is an upright-growing species, with 
somewhat hastate, rugose leaves, and axillary clusters of noble blue flowers, the 
lower lip of which is white, spotted with blue. Its average height is little more 
than a foot, the blossoms are exceedingly profuse, and, from the mixture of blue 
and white, highly attractive. Its flowering season is May and June. Young 
plants may be obtained by dividing the old specimens in autumn or spring, or by 
seeds ; but the seedlings do not flower the first year. Bot. Reg. 39. 
Schweiggeria pauciflora. Messrs. Loddiges imported this interesting little 
stove-shrub from Brazil, and it has frequently bloomed in their collection. It is 
closely allied to the genus Viola, from which it is distinguished by the very unequal 
divisions of the calyx, and by the different form of the stigma. Its common height 
is from one to two feet ; it branches very freely ; the leaves are small, oblong, and 
crenate ; and the flowers are solitary, on long peduncles, their principal member 
being a spreading white lip, which is yellowish, and streaked with pink near the 
bottom, and has a prominent spur. As it grows in u wet, shady, stony places, 
near the river Itahype, in the province of Bahia,” it requires a moist atmosphere, 
and a rather sterile soil. The flowers are not borne in great numbers at any one 
period ; but they develop themselves at almost every season. Bot. Reg. 40. 
StylIdium ciliatum. Yellow flowers constitute the principal distinction of 
this pretty species, which has also ciliated leaves, very beautifully arranged. These 
are densely imbricated ; the outer ones spreading flatly, the inner ones rising 
erectly ; each being narrow, linear, and tipped with a conspicuous hair-like point. 
The flower-stalks, calyx, and the exterior of the blossoms, are covered with “ long, 
spreading hairs, tipped with a brown, viscid gland.” It was raised in the nursery 
of Mr. Low, of Clapton, with whom it has flowered ; and it will be esteemed as 
affording a contrast to the pink-blossomed species. Bot. Mag. 3883. 
