VERONICA LINDLEYANA. 
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exceedingly pretty species, has been figured 
in the Fluriadtural Cabinet. It is there 
stated to have been raised from seeds brought 
from Chili, by Mr. Brickwood, and presented 
by him to H. Berens, Esq., of Sidcup, and Mr. 
Berens' gardener exhibited the plant during 
the last summer. The flowers are perhaps a 
trifle larger than those of T. brachyceras, but 
of a very pale dingy yellow, wanting alto- 
gether that brightness and vivacity for which 
the species is so famous. Both plants are very 
free bloomers. Natural order, Tropaelaceas. 
Trop/EOLUM, speciex.(])— During the autumn 
of 1844, Messrs. Veitch exhibited a species of 
Tropieolum, with rather large peltate leaves, 
divided on the front into about five very 
obtuse and somewhat obscure lobes ; the 
leaves were an inch and a half across : the 
habit of the plant was rather slender ; the 
flower small, clear pale yellow, with a short 
spur, much the shape of those of braehyceras. 
It was from Peru. It did not at that time 
promise to be a very showy plant : we have 
not seen it since. 
Trijiezia Meridensis, Herbert. (The Me- 
rida Trimezia). — This plant is related to the 
old Iris Martinicensis, now called Trimezia, 
and was imported from the snowy mountains 
of Merida, by Mr. Harris. The flowers are 
yellowish, with faint transverse brownish 
coloured bands, and are more handsome than 
those of its above named ally. Natural order, 
Iridacea?. 
Turnera ulmifolia, Linnceus. (The elm- 
leaved Turnera). — A narrow-leaved variety of 
this species is known as T. angustifolia. The 
present species is a strong growing sub- 
shrubby stove plant, with alternate, lanceolate, 
oblong, elm-like leaves ; and large, round, 
bright yellow flowers, composed of five rounded 
petals, streaked with radiating crimson lines. 
It is found in the West Indies. It flowers in 
July, and through the summer. Not new. 
Figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4137. 
Natural order, Turneracea;. 
Vesalia floribunda, of gardens. (The 
abundant-flowered Vesalia). — Under this 
name a plant has been exhibited at the Royal 
Botanic Society's exhibition, both by Messrs. 
Yritch and Son, and Messrs. Lucombe and 
Co. of Exeter. It is a very neat, small, 
bushy -growing plant, with opposite oval 
leaves, and long tube-shaped pentstemon-like 
flowers ; the tube is as much as two inches 
long, witli a very broad expanding five-lobed 
limb ; these flowers are of a light rose colour, 
and exceedingly pretty. In the nursery 
catalogues of some of the Belgian nursery- 
nii'ii. it is called Abelia floribunda. 
■\Yiuti< n.i.iHA t.atkritia, Hooker. (The 
brick-coloured Whitfieldia). — A small bushy 
stove shrub, with oblong ovate leaves, and 
racemes of brick red, funnel-shaped, drooping 
flowers. It is a handsome plant, from Sierra 
Leone. Figured in the Botanical Magazine, 
t. 4155 ; and in Paxton's Magazine, p. 147. 
Natural order, Aeanthacete. 
VERONICA LINDLEYANA. 
(Paxton.) 
DR. LINDLEY's SPEEDWELL. 
The shrubby species of Veronica have for 
some time arrested the attention of the culti- 
vators of plants ; and our green-houses have, 
within the last year or two, had a very hand- 
some subject added to the many beauties they 
already contained, in the Veronica speciosa, 
a stiff bushy plant, with deep green, opposite, 
bluish leaves, and upright, short, thick oblong 
spikes of deep purple flowers. At some of 
the floral exhibitions of the metropolis, plants 
of this species have been produced, not more 
than from two to three feet high, and not less 
than four feet in diameter, and abundantly 
furnished with their very showy flower heads. 
Though scarcely so rigid in its habit, V. 
Lindleyana possesses a similar bushiness and 
compactness of growth. At the September 
meeting of the Horticultural Society of 
London, a fine bushy plant of this species was 
produced in flower, the first, as far as it is 
known, that has been flowered in Europe. 
This plant was flowered by Mr. Glendinning, 
of the Chiswick nursery; having been received 
by him from Mr. James McNab, curator of 
the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society's 
garden, in Edinburgh. It had been raised 
from seed sent from New Zealand, in October 
1843, by Mr. Thomas Cleghorn, formerly a 
nurseryman of Edinburgh. 
The habit of the plant is excellent; in fact, 
it grows into a dense dwarf bush, loaded with 
its long pendent spikes of flowers; which, if not 
