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1606. MONADELPHIA, PENTANDRIA. PASSIFLORACE/E. 
PASSIFLO RA ACT I NIA. II Plant, 10 feel i| Stove climber, the Organ Mountains, 
sea-anemone passion-flower. || Flower, 3J inch II in 1842, flowers, in February, white. 
Named from its floral appendages bearing a fancied resemblance to the instru- 
ments of our Saviour’s torture (see Botanic Garden, No. 4). A pleasing novelty, 
whose showy nectary obtained for it the specific name, actinia. bot. mag. 4009 . 
1G07. MONADELPHIA, PENTANDRIA. PASSIFLORACEjE. 
PASSIFLO RA capsula ris. II Plant 14 feet 11 Stove evergreen climber, West Indies, 
angular-fruited PASSION-FLOW. || Flower, l inch || 1820, flowers in June & July, yel.-gr. 
Another Passion Flower — one possessing less novelty, but probably is not less 
curious. It is much smaller, but an abundant flowerer ; and bears a large six- 
angled capsule. It first became known at the Edinburgh garden, bot. mag. 2868 . 
1608. G YNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. ORCHIDACEiE. 
PERISTE RIA HUMBOLD rill Raceme, 2 feet Stove parasite, sent from Venezuela, 
Humboldt’s peristeria. || Flower, 3 inch 1 in 1840, flowers in April, dull red. 
Named from the Greek, peristera, a dove ; from the resemblance between 
this bird and the column. Imported by John Wilmore, Esq. A noble plant, 
resembling P. Barkeri; it is the long-desired Anguloasuperba. bot.reg.18,1843. 
1609. DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. MELASTOMACE/E. 
PLERO MA bentham’ianum. Il Plant, 2 feet i| Stove shrub, the Organ Mountains, in 
MR. bentham’s pleroma. || i lo vfer, 2 inch I 1840, flowers in Autumn, purple. 
Pleroma signifies fulness ; probably so named from the cells of the capsule. A 
handsome shrub, whose fine terminal panicles of blue flowers, produced at an 
early age of the plant, make it a desirable stove ornament. bot. mag. 40ot. 
1610. DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. LEGUMINOSIE. 
POINCIA'NA GILLIE'SII. II I’l a 6 feet Ij Frame shrub, sent from Chili, in 1829, 
DR. gillies’s poinciana. || Flower, Dj inch II flowers in July, yellow and crimson. 
Named in compliment to M. de Poinci, Governor of the Antilles. A splendid 
denizen of the Royal Kew Gardens, where it lives in the open air. Its yellow 
corolla, and long scarlet stamens, are highly ornamental. bot. mag. 400 c. 
1611. CRYFTOGAMIA, FILICES. I’OLYPODIACE/E. 
PTE'RIS ROTUNDIFO'LIA.lj Height, ^12 inch | Greenhouse perennial, New Zealand, 
ROUND-LEAVED pteris. || width*,’ t! inch II in '1824, sori brown, the whole year. 
Pteris, see 1561. A beautiful and distinct species, stated to have been intro- 
duced in 1824 ; but must have been lost again, till raised by that excellent cul- 
tivator, Mr. J. Henderson, Milton House. Increased by division, sp.of forster. 
1612. DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. LABIAT7E. 
SAL/VIA PSEU'DO-COCCIN'EAll Plant, 3 feet ii Stove evergreen, from South America, 
HAIRY-STALKED SCARLET SAGE. || Flower, IJ inch || 1797, flowers in June & July, scarlet. 
Salvia, from salvus, safe ; on account of the medicinal qualities of some of the 
species. The richly-coloured blossoms of this evergreen shrub, and their long 
continuance in beauty, recommend it to favourable notice. bot. mag. 2864. 
1613. SYNGENESIA, FRUSTRANEA. COMPOSITE. 
SENE'CIO CALAMIFO'LIUS. II Plant, 15 inch | Greenhouseherb.peren., Cape of Good 
QUILL-LEAVED CAPE GROUNDSEL. || Flower, >1 inch II Hope, 1830? flowers in August, yel. 
Senecio is derived from senex, an old man ; probably on account of its head 
of white papus, or seed down. A weedy looking flower, less pleasing, perhaps, 
than its singularly succulent Mesembryanthemum-like foliage. bot. mag. 4011 . 
