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plant, while the glossy p urple of the starry petals, pale at their base, 
with the yellow mass of anthers, and the almost emerald green of 
the eye-like stigma, cannot fail to call forth admiration. It 
inhabits Heal del Monte, Mexico. It blooms in the summer 
months, and will rank next to E. hexcedrophorus. The plant is 
nearly globose, about the size of a small orange, glaucous-green, 
clustered, with about ten or twelve deep furrows, the intermediate 
ridges divided into six or eight somewhat hemispherical, but very 
irregular mammae, at the top of which is a woolly areole, bearing 
seven to ten slender, acicular spines, half to three quarters of an 
inch long, spreading, but the central 'one is longer and stronger 
than the rest. Their colour is pale brown, red at the base of 
the younger ones. Flowers large, solitary from near the summit 
of the plant.— Bot. Mag. 4373. 
VERBENACEiE. —Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Casselia integrifolia (Nees). This beautiful stove shrub is a 
native of the woods of Brazil. In 1843 it was’brought to this 
country from the Continent, Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, re¬ 
ceiving plants of it from M. Neumann, of Paris. It has rather 
ample foliage, and the large loose racemes of purplish-blue 
funnel-shaped flowers are very effective; they are produced from 
the axils of the leaves near the extremities of the branches. In 
cultivation it is a hardy stove plant, requiring a moderate tempera¬ 
ture not much exceeding a warm greenhouse, and should be 
potted in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand, with plenty of 
room for the roots.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
MALPiGiACEiE. —Monadelphia Becandria. 
Stigmaphyllon ciliatam. The genus Stigmaphyllon was formerly 
associated with Banisteria, and contains some very handsome spe¬ 
cies, all climbers, but many are yet unknown in British collections. 
They are natives of Brazil, where, in the woods and thickets, they 
grow abundantly, and are certainly deserving the attention of 
collectors. The present species was introduced in 1840, and 
flowered in the year following at Sion House. It is a handsome 
stove plant, the flowers are large, produced in axillary umbels, 
and are of a very bright yellow. It grows freely in a light, turfy 
loam, or a mixture of loam, peat, and sand.— Pax. Mag. Bot . 
