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Pentstemon miniates, Lindley (vermilion 
Pentstemon). — Serophulariaceae § Antirrhini- 
dea>Chelonea3. — A pretty half-shrubby per- 
ennial plant, growing about two feet high, 
with much the appearance of the scarlet- 
flowered var. of P. gentianoid.es, grown in 
gardens. It has small ovate leaves, and loose 
few-flowered racemes of bright vermilion 
coloured tubular flowers, paler in front, and 
marked in the throat with crimson streaks ; 
the flowers are club-shaped, divided at the 
end into five almost triangular segments, of 
which the two upper ones are erect, and the 
next on each side spreading at a right angle. 
A native of the north of Mexico. Introduced 
in 1846. Flowers from July to September. 
Culture. — Nearly hardy, requires a frame in 
winter; sandy loamy soil ; propagated freely by 
cuttings in spring or autumn, or by seeds. (74) 
Primula Munkoi, Lindley (Capt. Munro's 
Primrose). — Primulacea? § Primulidas. — A 
pretty alpine perennial, growing eight or ten 
inches high, with a bulbous base, and a tuft 
of pale green, heart-shaped leaves, on long 
footstalks, from among which rises the erect 
flower-stem, having at the top several large 
white blossoms, with a little yellow round the 
eye ; they are an inch across, and deliciously 
fragrant. The plant is a good deal in the way 
of P. involucrata, but is altogether larger. 
Native of the mountains of the north of India, 
at an elevation of 11,500 feet, and growing in 
the neighbourhood of water. Introduced in 
1845. Flowers from March to May. Cul- 
ture. — Requires a frame, or at least to be kept 
cool and shady in summer, and rather dry in 
winter ; loam and sandy peat ; propagated by 
division of the plant, or by seeds. (75) 
Gongora befonia, var. leucochila (white- 
lipped toad-skinned Gongora). — Orchidaceae 
§ Vandeas-Maxillarideas. — This differs from 
G. bufonia, in its paler purple colour, and in 
having a white lip. It is pseudo-bulbous, 
throwing up several large broad lance-shaped 
leaves, and produces long drooping racemes 
of insect-like blossoms, which appear in the 
spring and early summer months.. A native of 
Brazil. Introduced before 1844. Culture. — 
Requires a hot moist stove ; planted in baskets 
among turfy peat, and suspended ; propagated 
by division of the plant. (76) 
Nepenthes Rafflesiana, Jaeh, (Sir S. 
Raffles' Pitcher plant). — Nepenthaceae. — A 
very curious plant, with a fibrous root, and 
long trailing stems, which require to be 
erectly supported ; the leaves are alternate, 
the lower ones crowded and lanceolate, the 
upper ones more remote and oblong ; in the 
adult state, they are smooth, and have the 
midrib elongated into an urn- bearing cirrhus 
or tendril. The tendrils of the lower leaves 
are not twisted, but hanging straight from the 
apex, and terminate in large ventricose 
pitchers or urns (ascidia), which are greenish, 
and richly spotted with purple, having two 
rows of fringes down the front, and surmounted 
by an ovate lid (operculum) attached to a long 
neck-like prolongation of the urn ; the upper 
edge of the urn is inverted and beautifully 
streaked, giving a pectinated appearance to 
the inner edge. The tendrils of the upper 
leaves have one or two spiral twists in the 
middle, and terminate in long funnel shaped 
urns, not fringed as in the others. The 
flowers are reddish purple, and grow in a 
thick spike-like raceme, at first terminal, but 
afterwards becoming axillary from the stem 
shooting past ; the upper leaf next the flower- 
spike never bears a pitcher. A native of 
Singapore. Introduced in 1845. Flowers in 
(summer or) autumn. Culture. — Requires a 
moist stove ; to be potted in lumps of peat 
with moss, or rotten wood ; propagated by 
cuttings. (77) 
SlPHOCAMPTLUS MICROSTOMA,. Hooker 
(small-mouthed Siphocampylus). — Lobeliacead 
§ Lobeleae.— A perennial plant, with erect 
branched stems, from two to three feet high, 
and. alternate ovate shining leaves witli 
glandular serratures : the flowers grow in 
umbels at the end of the shoots — forming an 
umbellate-corymb ; they are tubular, curved, 
and contracted at the mouth, two and a half 
inches long, downy, and of a rich scarlet 
colour. A native of New Grenada. Introduced 
in 1846. Flowers throughout the autumn 
and winter, and " seems to be one of those 
plants one may reckon to have in bloom all 
the year." Culture. — Requires. $. cool stove, 
or warm greenhouse ; sandy loam, and leaf 
mould ; propagated by cuttings, or by seed:*, 
which soon make flowering plants. (78) 
Brunfelsia nitida, var. jamaicensis (Ja- 
maica shining-leaved Brunfelsia). — Scrophu- 
lariaceae § Salpiglossideas. — An erect shrubby 
plant, ultimately attaining four or five feet in 
height, with large alternate obovate-lanceolate 
leaves, most numerous near the ends of the 
shoots, of a somewhat leathery texture and 
glossy ; the flowers grow from the axils of the 
upper leaves, and consist of a long narrow cylin- 
drical downy tube, with a large spreading limb, 
three inches across, of five obovate roundish 
wavy lobes. Native of Jamaica. Introduced in 
1845. Flowers in July and August. Cul- 
ture. — Requires a cool stove ; peat and loam ; 
propagated by cuttings in sand, under a 
glass. (79) 
Tillandsia belbosa, var. picta (painted 
bulbous Tillandsia). — Bromeliacese.-^A small 
clustered epiphytal plant, with short swollen 
bulbiform stems, leafy at the base, the leaves 
a span or more long, awl-shaped, leathery, 
rigid, terete in consequence of the sides being 
