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1.—CHIRONIA DECUSSATA Vent. THE CROSS-LEAVED CHIRONIA. 
Synonymes.—C frutescens latifolia Wendl.; Roslinia frutescens Speciric Cuaracter.—Shrubby, subtomentose. Leaves decussate, 
var. Mench. oblong-obtuse. Calyx globose, in five parts. 
Eneravines.—Bot. Mag., t. 707; and our jig. 1, in Pl. 39. 
Description, &c.—This plant has been supposed by some botanists to be only a variety of C. frutescens, which 
is very inferior to it in beauty. It is occasionally called in the nurseries Chironia latifolia, its leaves being much 
broader than those of another common species, viz. C. jasminoides. C. decussata is, however, by far the hand 
somest species of the genus, and it is of easy cultivation provided it be kept all the year in a greenhouse ; but it 
will not bear planting out in the open ground, as it is very apt to damp off. 
GENUS II. 
LISIANTHUS Browne. THE LISIANTHUS. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Geyeric Cuaracter.—Calyx campanulate, five-cleft; segments | incumbent, revolute when old. Style elongated. Stigma bilaminate. 
erect, with membranous incumbent edges. Corolla funnel-shaped; | Sceds small, angular. (G. Don.) 
tube ventricose on one side ; limb equal, five-cleft. Anthers sagittate, 

Description, &c.—Most of the species belonging to this genus are annual plants, natives of the tropics, but 

some few are found in the southern part of Brazil, in a sufficiently mild climate to require only a greenhouse in 
Great Britain. The name of Lisianthus signifies dissolving flower, in allusion to some medicinal properties 
attributed to the genus. 
1.—LISIANTHUS RUSSELLIANUS Hook. THE DUKE OF BEDFORD’S LISIANTHUS. 
Synonyme.—L. glaucifolius Vutt. five-nerved. Flowers in panicles. Calyx deeply cut; segments very 
Eneravines.—Bot, Mag., t. 3626 ; Paxton’s Mag. of Bot., vol. vi, | long, subulate. Corolla in five parts, campanulately funnel-shaped. 
p. 31; The Botanist, t. 148; and our fig. 2, in Pl. 39. segments broad, obovate, spreading. : 
Speciric Cuaracrer.—Leaves ovate, very acute, from three to 
Description, &c.—This very beautiful plant is a native of Mexico, but it has also been found in the warmer 
parts of North America. It was at first supposed to be an annual, but it is now found to be a half hardy perennial. 
It is generally propagated by seeds, which should be raised on a hotbed; but as seedling plants do not flower till 
they are three or four years old, it is now judged better to raise young plants from cuttings, which strike when the 
pots are plunged in a hotbed. This beautiful plant only thrives as an inhabitant of the greenhouse, as it is apt 
to damp off when planted in the open ground. It is found, however, to flower best when it can be placed in a stove 
or hotbed early in spring, so as to give it a little additional excitement when it is about to form its flower-buds 
Great care should be taken in shifting it, as its roots are few and very fragile. The species was introduced 
in 1835. 

CHAPTER XLV. 
BIGNONIACEA R. Brown. 
EssentiaL Cuaracter.— Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, usually | girded by a glandular disk, two-celled, many-seeded. Style one. 
irregular, with a four or five-lobed limb. Stamens five; filaments | Stigma bilaminate. Capsule two-valved, two-celled. Seeds trans- 
unequal ; anthers two-celled, cells usually divaricate. Ovarium | versely foliaceous, compressed. Embryo straight, foliaceous. 
Description, &c.—The plants belonging to this order have generally trumpet-shaped flowers which are 





