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ingly well adapted for growing in Wardian 
cases or window green-houses, and, from their 
small size and great singularity, recommend 
themselves particularly to those amateurs who 
have not convenience for plants of greater 
stature. In short, in a small window green- 
house, a few feet square, a very large number 
of these plants might be grown. They would 
all, and at all times, be exceedingly interest- 
ing, while some one or other among them 
would be almost constantly in flower ; some, as 
in the present subject, being really plants of 
great beauty. 
This plant is of a sub-globose figure, gene- 
rally a little longer than broad, depressed at 
the summit, and divided on the surface into 
several — from thirteen to fifteen — deep fur- 
rows, and as many prominent, though some- 
what compressed, ridges, which are what is 
called sinuate-lobate along the edges ; that is, 
divided into regular rounded elevations. At 
the upper edge of each of these rounded lobes 
the little clusters of spines are situated ; these 
are called areolae, and consist of a small sphe- 
rical woolly body, with from six to ten rather 
short straiglitish spreading nearly equal spines. 
From the areoles of some of the lobes near 
the top of the plant the flowers are produced; 
they are a span or more long — often longer 
than the plant itself — with a very long trum- 
pet-shaped tube, of a greenish colour, with 
numerous red brown scales, which, as they 
approach the upper end of the tube, gradually 
become larger and longer, and pass into, first, 
the deep rose-coloured calycine segments, and 
again into the oblong, apiculate, pale rose- 
coloured spreading petals. In the centre of 
the tube appear the numerous straw-coloured 
stamens, and among them the whitish branch- 
ing stigma. The form of the flower will be 
readily understood from the illustration. 
The plant is said to be a free flowering one, 
producing its flowers in May, often having 
several expanded at one time : their duration 
is about two days. 
Very little is known of the history of this 
tribe of plants, and the present seems to be 
one of those of which the information is but 
scanty. It is, however, supposed to be a na- 
tive of South Brazil, and is cultivated, along 
witli a very large collection of others, in the 
national botanic garden of Kew. 
In the natural arrangement, Echinocactus 
belongs to the order Cactacere, and in the 
Linnrean to Icosandria monogynia. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
SECOND EXHIBITION FOB 1846. 
The second of the grand floral fetes of the 
Horticultural Society took place in the garden 
at Chiswick on June 13th. June flower shows 
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are usually attractive scenes, and on this occa- 
sion thirteen thousand persons enjoyed the sight, 
beneath an Italian sky. As at page 262, we 
shall merely notice some of the more remark- 
able of the plants which were produced. 
Stove Plants. — The Clerodendrons among 
these, were quite the feature of the exhibition, 
supplying the gorgeousness of Azaleas at an 
earlier period. There were many excellent 
specimens present. The most remarkable was 
C. paniculatum from Mr. Ayres, of Brook- 
lands, which was seven feet high, and had a 
monstrous, flattened, three-forked panicle of 
orange-scarlet flowers, not less than a foot and 
a half long ; the leaves of this plant are large, 
and deeply lobed. Of C. fallax, which has 
deep scarlet flowers and large heart-shaped 
leaves, Mr. Robertson, of Ealing, had one five 
feet high, with nine panicles of bloom, and 
others with seven ; and other plants from Mr. 
Stanley, of Sidcup, had five heads of flowers ; 
Mr. Barnes, of Bromley, had one with two 
principal stems, and many branches ; Mr. 
Epps, of Maidstone, had a very handsome 
smaller plant, three feet high, with three stems ; 
Mr. Ayres had one of a variety called super- 
bum, which was five feet high, with four 
panicles of bloom. Then of C. squamatum, 
Mr. Hunt, of Bromley, had one four feet high 
with six panicles ; and Mr. Barnes had one of 
this kind five feet high, with seven panicles of 
bloom ; this kind has orange-coloured flowers. 
The Ixoras too are magnificent shrubby plants, 
with ample somewhat oval leaves, and large 
round close heads of scarlet flowers ; at least I. 
coecinea, the species chiefly shown, has flowers 
of this colour. Mr. Fraser, of Lea Bridge, 
and Mr. Hunt, each had branchy plants of this 
kind five feet high, and well foliaged, and with 
very many heads of bloom ; Mr. Malyon, of 
Blackheath, had a smaller one four feet high, 
and three in diameter, with seven fine heads 
of bloom ; Mr. Epps, and Mr. Green, of 
Cheam, had plants about two feet high, the 
former with ten heads of flower, and the latter 
well bloomed. Then there was Poivrea coecinea 
(the old Combretum, badly named purpureum), 
a neat plant tivii feet high, covered over with 
feathery spikes of crimson -scarlet blossoms ; 
this was from Mr. Pawley, of Bromley. 
Rundeletia speciosa, a handsome shrub, witli 
roughish leaves, and little heads of orange- 
scarlet flowers, was there from Mr. Barnes and 
Mr. Robertson. Another more easily grown 
plant, also with rough leaves, and orange- 
scarlet heads of flowers, but a good deal like 
those of Verbenas, was the Lantana crocea, of 
which a bushy specimen four feet across, was 
sent by Mr. Catleugh, of Chelsea. And still 
again of scarlet flowers, Messrs. Witch, of 
Exeter, sent their brilliant coloured Sipho- 
campylos cocciucu?, larger than the plant men- 
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