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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
Carter has the names of three other kinds of Clarkia, one large-flowered, and two fringed varieties of C. pulchella , 
but we have never heard of them anywhere else, and do not know what they are. 
Clarkia rhomboidea , Dr. Lindley observes, “ is interesting in a botanical point of view, on account of its 
flowers indicating the nearest approach yet known among the Onagraceous plants to the indefinite stamens of the 
Myrtaceae.” 
GENUS IV. 
EUCHARIDIUM, Fisch. et Mey. 
Generic Character. —Tube of the calyx above the ovarium, elongated, filiform, with a four-parted deciduous limb. Petals four, clawed, trifid. 
Stamens four. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule four-celled, four-valved, dehiscent. Seeds numerous.— (Fisch. et Meyer.} 
1.—EUCHARIDIUM CONCINNUM, Fisch. et Meyer. THE NEAT EUCHARIDIUM. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 3589; Bot. Reg. t. 1962; and our fig. 6, in Plate 9. 
Specific Character _Pubescent. Leaves petiolate, ovate, entire. Flowers axillary, solitary. 
Description, &c. —A pretty and very neat little plant, growing about six or eight inches high, and flowering 
freely. It was found near the Russian colony of Ross in New California, and sent to the London Horticultural 
Society from St. Petersburg in 1836. Seeds may be procured of Mr. Chari wood, and at Mr. Henderson’s 
nursery, Pine Apple Place, Edgeware Road, where our drawing was made in the autumn of 1838. The plant, 
from its neat and compact habit of growth, is well adapted for growing in a pot, or in a small garden, and the 
seeds may be sown at any period of the spring or summer, as they will generally flower at any time in six weeks 
after sowing. 
GENUS V. 
GAURA, Lin. THE GAURA. 
Lin. Syst. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Limb of calyx 3-4-parted. Petals four. Ovary 3-4-sided, one-celled. Seeds naked. 
1 .—GAURA TRIPETALA, Cav. THE THREE-PETALLED GAURA. 
Synonyme —G. hexandra, Ortega. ' I Flowers hexandrous. Sepals three, deflexed. Petals three, rose-coloured, 
Specific Character.— Leaves lanceolate-linear, a little toothed. | obovate-oblong, unilateral, ascending. 
Description, &c. —A half-hardy annual, with whitish flowers, that turn pink as they fade. It is a native 
of Mexico, introduced in 1804. It is very inferior in beauty to the perennial species of Gaura, and is only 
deserving of cultivation where there is abundance of room. Seeds may be had at Chari wood’s. They should be 
sown in May, and will flower in August. 
