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a large orange-brown blotch ; the central and principal lobe of the lip is white, marked with large distinct purple 
blotches ; the rest of the lip is yellow. The flowers are very showy and very fragrant. From Columbia. Intro- 
duced in 1850. Flowers in winter. Messrs. Lucornbe, Pince and Co., of Exeter. 
Cantua BrrxiroLiA, Lamarck. Box-leaved Cantua {Bot. Mag., t. 4582).— Nat. Ord., Polemoniacete.— Syn., 
C. ovata and C. tomentosa, Cavunilles ; C. uniflora, Persoon ; Periphragmos dependens and P. uniflorus, Ruiz and 
Tavon. — A most beautiful greenhouse bush, very much branched, the branches downy. The leaves are variable 
in form, generally oblong- 
ovate, and either entire or 
sinuate-serrate, and downy or 
glabrous. The very large 
drooping flowers form a leafy 
terminal corymb ; the thick 
tube of the corolla is three 
inches long, the limb spread- 
ing an inch and a half across, 
deep rose, almost crimson, the 
tube reddish yellow. It ap- 
pears to be an easily-grown 
greenhouse plant, requiring 
something the treatment of 
Fuchsias. From the Peru- 
vian Andes. Introduced in 
1849. Flowers in April and 
May. Messrs. Veitch and 
Son, of Exeter. 
Dombeya mollis, Hooker. 
Soft-leaved Dombeya (Hot. 
Mag., t. 4578).— Nat. Ord., 
Byttneriacea? § Dombeyese 
— Syn., Astrapcca mollis of 
gardens. — A coarse tropical 
tree, with large soft cordate 
three-lobed leaves, and dense 
capitate umbels of small nar- 
row - petalled rose - coloured 
flowers, smelling like Hawthorn, 
of Kew. Flowers in March. 
Teopjeolum pendulum, Klotzsch. Drooping-flowered Indian Cress (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 41). — Nat. Ord., 
Tropajolacese § Tropajolese. — A climbing, half-hardy plant, supposed to be an annual, having peltate, smooth, 
slightly five-lobed leaves, and solitary axillary pendulous flowers, with a yellow five-lobed calyx, and yellow 
spathulate petals, crenated on the upper edge, the upper ones marked with parallel red lines, and a dull violet bar 
near the edge. From Central America. Introduced to the German gardens in 1849. Flowers in summer. 
Queecus agkifolia, Nee. Prickly evergreen Oak {Joum. Sort. Soc., vi. 157). — Nat. Ord., Corylaceae. — An 
evergreen Oak, which in its native country grows forty or fifty feet high, having hard brittle reddish wood, ever- 
green leathery leaves, varying from roundish-ovate to elliptic, and nearly as prickly as a Holly. The female 
flowers, seated close in the axils of the leaves, are succeeded by long ovate, almost conical-pointed acorns, grow- 
ing in hemispherical scaly cups. From California. Introduced by Hartweg in 1S48. Horticultural Society of 
London. 
Acacia ueophylla, Benthani. Pointed-leaved Acacia (Bot. Mag., t. 4573). — Nat. Ord., Fabaceee § Mimosese. 
— Syn., A. smilacifolia, Fielding. — A distinct-looking greenhouse shrub, but less beautiful than many species of 
this genus. The branches are angular, bearing obliquely-ovate slightly falcate acuminate phyllodia, remarkable 
in having three longitudinal nerves, connected by transverse ones. The flowers form little round balls of very 
pale yellow threads, and these grow on stalks shorter than the phyllodes, from two to five proceeding from one 
axil. From Swan River. Introduced by Mr. Drummond in 1843. Flowers in January and February. Royal 
Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Rogieea Menecbma, Planchon. Neighbouring Rogiera (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 41). — Nat. Ord., Cinehonacea? 
§ Cinchonea?. — A pretty stove shrub of free-flowering habit, and very closely resembling R. amcena, except in the 
structure of the flowers. The leaves are broadly-ovate, very downy ; the flowers grow in rather loose cynics, 
and are of a pale salmon-colour. The tube of the corolla is thicker than in R. amcena, the filaments are inserted 
above the middle, and the style is included ; the stigmatic lobes are linear, much longer than in the allied 
plant. From Guatimala. Introduced about 1848. Flowers in winter and spring. Horticultural Society of 
London. 
CANTUA BUXII'OLIA. 
Native country not stated. An old inhabitant of the Royal Botanic Garden 
