DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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erect or inclined; calyx of five deeply-cleft, narrow, hairy sepals; 
corolla, with the tube, rather short, white, gibbous on one side 
at the base, dilated above, tumid beneath, within spotted with 
purple; the mouth oblique ; the limb rather large, of five nearly 
equal, deep lobes, white, with a broad purple border.— Bot. 
Mag. 4390. 
Le gtjmino sm . —Becandria Monogynia. 
Burtonia pulchella (Meisn.) Messrs. Lucombe and Pince have 
had the good fortune to raise three beautiful species of Burtonia, 
from Mr. Drummond’s Swan river seeds. One is the B, conferta , 
a second is the charming species here described, and the third is 
B. villosa , which, as we shall have the opportunity of showing, 
is neither inferior in size nor in richness of colour in the flowers 
to the present one. B. pulchella forms a graceful shrub, about 
two feet high, with slender branches, heath-like leaves, and the 
flowers copious and large, terminate the ramifications ; the calyx 
is campanulate, obscurely two lipped, green, spotted with brown; 
the upper lip two-, the lower three-lobed ; the flowers are large 
and very beautiful; vexillum broad, rich purple, with a yellow 
spot at the base of the lamina. Ales and vexillum deep puce 
colour.— Bot. Mag. 4392. 
Gesneriaceae .—Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Mitraria coccinea. This is a most ornamental shrub, having 
the habit of Columnea. It is a native of San Carlos de Chiloe, 
and was introduced by Messrs. Yeitch and Son, who received it 
from their collector Mr. Lobb, and in whose nursery it flowered 
in May last. The plant seems likely to prove a valuable acquisi¬ 
tion to our gardens ; its habit is scandent, and it appears to 
grow about the height of three or four feet; the leaves are small 
and neat, and the flowers of a vivid scarlet, hanging gracefully 
on long slender peduncles from the axils of the leaves, give it, 
when in bloom, a more than ordinary share of attraction ; and 
what is not the least valuable and refnarkable is, that it will very 
probably prove perfectly hardy, being the only member known 
of this extensive and very ornamental order that will endure the 
open air of this country. The leaves are opposite, ovate, acute ; 
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