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deep yellow. It is very showy, and possesses 
the general character of the other species. 
Natural order, Scrophulariaceae. 
Salpixantiia coccixea, Hooker. (The 
scarlet Trumpet-flower.) A handsome stove- 
shrub, with ovate leaves, and loose spikes of 
crimson-scarlet, tube-shaped flowers. It is from 
Jamaica. Figured in theBotanical Magazine, 
t. 4158. Natural order, Acanthaceas. 
ScyEVOLA attenuata, Brown. (The at- 
tenuated-leaved Screvola). This is a shrubby 
green-house plant, woody below, but her- 
baceous in the younger branches. It has 
alternate, lanceolate, somewhat rigid, hairy 
leaves, tapering at the base. The flowers 
are in short, terminal, and also in lateral 
spikes ; they are of a bright light blue, 
tinged with purple, and consist of a tube, 
which is slit above, the whole length, and 
divided into five obovate, one-sided, wavy 
segments. It is a green-house plant, growing 
in good loam, and is very pretty when clothed 
with flowers, which are freely produced in 
June and July. It is a native of the south- 
western parts of Australia. Figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4190. Natural order, 
Goodeniacca\ 
Scilla pubens.. Welmitsch. (The downy 
Squill). A plant like S. peruviana, with 
greyish-blue flowers, but smaller than that 
species in all its parts. It is a hard)- bulb, with 
the flowers in a short spike : the flowers of 
the squills are small, star-like. Natural 
order, Liliaeere. 
Sciela Bertoloxii, Duly. (Bertoloni's 
Squill). Apparently a hardy bulb, with, a 
raceme of pale lilac flowers, in the way of 
S. italica, but much smaller. 
Si.i..u;n distans, E. Meyer. (The loose- 
flowered Selago). This is a slender, brandl- 
ing, soft-wooded, green-house plant, with 
downy branches, and narrow, semi-terete 
leaves, and loose spikes, of small pale-coloured 
Bowers, which are attractive rather from the 
profusion in which the plants produce them, 
than from any striking individual beauty they 
possess. It is easily cultivated, growing in 
the green-house, in sandy peat soil, and 
flowers in April. The flowers are rather 
sweet-scented; but the foliage has an un- 
pleasant odour. Figured in the Botanical 
Register, 1845, t. 46. Natural order, Sela- 
ginaceas. 
Sli>A GRAVEOLENS, Roxburgh. (Theheavy- 
scented Sida). — A handsome stove species, 
having some resemblance in figure to Abvtilon 
Striatum, but with erect instead of pendent 
flowers. It has large, soft, pale green, heart- 
shaped leaves ; and yellow flowers with a deep 
blood-coloured eye ; and grows live or six 
feet in height. It has been gent from Jamaica ; 
and flowers in the autumn. Not new. Figured 
in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4134. Natural 
order, Malvaceas. 
Sida p.eonxeflora, Hooher. (The pseony- 
flowered Sida). — This is a tall stove shrub, or 
perhaps a small tree, with large, rather coarse, 
ovate leaves, producing at the top of the stem 
two or three large flowers, of a cup-shaped 
figure, and of a red-rose colour, with yellow 
anthers. It was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, 
of Exeter, and first flowered with them in 
January last. Mr. Lobb, their collector, found 
it on the Organ Mountains of Brazil. It 
belongs to the section Abutilon, by some re- 
garded as a genus. Figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4170. 
Siphocampylos coccineus, Hoolter. (The 
scarlet-flowered Siphocampylos). A dwarf 
sub-shrubby stove plant, with cordate, acumi- 
nate leaves, and long, tubular, scarlet flowers, 
like those of a Salvia — very showy. Intro- 
duced by Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter ; from 
South America. Figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4178 ; and JPaxton's Magazine, 
p. 173. Natural order, Lobeliacere. 
Sinningia villosa, cars. — Of this plant, 
crossed with Gloxinia caulescens, Mr. Carton, 
gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, at 
Syon, has raised several hybrids : the plants 
manifest a disposition to acquire a stem like 
the Sinningia ; and the blossoms of some have 
a dull purple tinge ; others resemble the pale 
greenish yellow of the parent. They are not 
handsome : they were blooming in September. 
Natural order, Gesneracere. 
Smeathjiannia laevigata, Sulander\ (The 
smooth-stalked Smeathmannia). — An upright 
evergreen growing shrub, with spreading 
branches, and alternate, oblong, somewhat 
leather}', coarsely serrated leaves. The flowers 
are solitary from the axils of the leaves, con- 
sisting of two rows of five segments each, the 
outer row partly white, the inner row white, 
with numerous stamens. It requires the con- 
stant heat of the stove, and flowers freely in 
July. Though belonging to the natural order 
of Passion-flowers, it has more the general 
aspect of the Tea plant. Not new. Figured 
in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4194. 
Solahtjm jiacrantiu'm, Diuial. (The large- 
flowered Nightshade). — A stove shrub, or 
almost a small tree, growing twelve or four- 
teen feet high, witli large angularly lobed 
leave.-, densely clothed with rusty green wool, 
and beset on the stem, footstalks, ribs, and 
veins of the leaves, with rigid prickles ; the 
flowers are in axillary racemes, near the top 
of the blanches, composed of live ovate, 
spreading segments, of a pah: bluish purple, 
with darker dashes and pale lines. It is a 
native of Brazil. Figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4138. Naturalorder, Solanacete. 
SpHjEEOTELE COCCIKEA, Lin/;, ,Vc. — This 
