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1030. PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. BALSAMINACE*. 
IMPA'TIENS GLANDULIGe'raJ riant, l| feet j Half-hardy annual, from India, in 
glandular balsam. || Hotter, ]j !Sch I: 1839, flowers in the Autumn, pink. 
Impatiens, see No. 502. Four Indian species of Impatiens were raised in the 
London Horticultural Society’s Garden, in 1839, of which this is the largest, 
growing, as above registered, twelve feet high. bot. rec. 22 , 1840 . 
1031. PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. CONVOLVULACE*. 
IPO MCE' A LONGIFO'LIA. J1 Plant, 5 feet IJ Half-hardy perennial, from Mexico, 
LONG-LEAVED IPOMCEA. || Flower, 4 ind! 3 in 1838, flowers in July,white& pink. 
Ipomcea, see No. 182. A bold handsome flower, and continuing throughout 
the day if not .fully exposed to the sun, yielding the almond like peifume of 
Noyeau. Received by the London Horticultural Society. bot. reg. 21, 1840. 
1032. GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. ORCHIDACE*. 
MILTO'NIA CAN'DIDA. || 2 f e " || Stove herbaceous perennial, Brazil, in 
WHITE-LIPPED MILTONIA. | Flower, 3 inch !l 1837? flow. Oct. vel. brown & white. 
Miltonia, named in honour of the Right Hon. Lord Fitzwilliam, a distinguished 
cultivator of orchidaceae. A new variety, which flowered at Dublin, with white 
column, and lip yellowish, having a tinge of purple. bot. mag. 3793. 
1033. OCTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. MELASTOM ACE*. 
OSBECK'IA CANES'CENS. j] P |an .*> 7 I! Stove deciduous shrub, received from 
hoary-leaved OSBECKIA. J Flower, 1$ Inch II Berlin Gardens, 1838, August, lilac. 
Named in honour of P. Osbeck, a Swedish clergyman and Naturalist. Os- 
beckia canescens is a remarkably handsome flowering shrub ; introduced to the 
Edinburgh Botanic Garden, but its native country is unknown, bot. mag. 3790. 
1034- TETRANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. TROTEACE.*. 
PRO'TEA CYNAROI'DES. B Plant, IJ feet I 1 Greenhouse shrub, from C. G. Hope, 
ARTICHOKE-FLOWERED PROTEA. B HoVer, 3 inch » 1792, flowers during summer, pink. 
Protea, see No. 922. This plant was grown in the Manchester Botanic Gar- 
den, where the drawing for the “ Botanist ” was made. The flowers are very 
large, and consequently very showy. botanist, 166. 
1035. ICOSANDRIA, DIG^NIA. POMACE*. 
RAPHIOLE'PIS RU'BRA. 
RED RAPHIOLEPIS. 
Plant, 4 feet ii Greenhouse evergreen shrub, China, 
Flower, 1 ? inch 1 ‘ n 1820, flowers all summer, white. 
Raphiolepis, from raphis, needle; lepis, scale; alluding to the subulate 
bracts, and stipules of the genus. This forms a neat evergreen bush, which in 
the south of England bears exposure on a southern wall. bot. reg. 1404. 
1036. SYNGENESIA, *QUALIS. COMPOS1T*. 
STE'VIA BREYIARISTA'TA j| Plant. 3 feet n Stove herbaceous perennial, from 
short-awned STEVIA. || pfow’er, 1J Inch ]| Tucuman 1836, flowers in July, pink. 
Stevia, see No. 765. The present South American species of Stevia is a slen- 
der upright branched plant, of neat appearance, and from its numerous heads of 
flowers rather showy. It was discovered by Mr. Tweedie. bot. mag. 3-92. 
1037- HEXANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. COMMELINACE*. 
TRADESCAN'TIA UNDA'TAll Plant, 1 foot |j Hardy herbaceous annual? Mexico, 
WAVED-LEAVED SPIDERWORT. II Flower, 1 inch ll 1819, flowers in July & Aug. violet. 
Tradescantia, see No. 410. The species undata resembles erecta, and forms 
an ornamental plant, but it is not clearly ascertained whether it is annual or of 
longer duration. It was raised in the Hort. Society’s Garden, bot. reg. 1403. 
