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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS, 
above the point where a pair of leaves have fallen; the raehis 
and pedicels short and thick ; hence the flowers appear fascicled. 
Petals four, very concave, orbicular-oval. Stamens very numerous* 
with red filaments, much longer than the petals, surmounted by 
the small yellow anthers.—-ifoL Mag . 4408. 
BoraginEjE.— Pentandria Monogynia. 
Arnehia echioides (De Candolle). A native of the Caucasian 
Alps and of Armenia, quite hardy, flowering in the open border, 
or in a pot in June and July, where it makes a pretty appear¬ 
ance with its scorpioid spikes of large yellow flowers, with five 
deep-purple, well-defined spots at the throat. These spots, how¬ 
ever, in the cultivated plants, are sometimes obsolete. The root 
is fusiform, woody, throwing up two or more erect, leafy, her¬ 
baceous stems, about a span or more high, downy, with short 
hair. Leaves spreading, somewhat hoary, all sessile. The stems 
terminate in a branched, scorpioid, leafy spike of yellow flowers, 
the corolla between funnel- and salver-shaped, about half an inch 
across.— Bot. Mag . 4409. 
ScROPHULARiACEiE. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Torenia edentula. Plant, an annual; stem weak, erect; 
branches square; leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acuminate, 
serrated, downy ; peduncles axillary, single flowered, and ter¬ 
minal, in clusters of several together. Calyx ovate, two-lipped, 
smooth, winged. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, green, 
tinned with purple ; limb in five segments ; lobes rounded, pale 
purple, with a deep blotch on each of the two side ones. The 
flowers of this species, though individually pretty, are by no 
means conspicuous, being too small amidst so much strong 
foliage. A native of the East Indies. 
T. arracanensis. Plant, a perennial; stems quadrangular, 
climbing, very slender; leaves cordate, opposite, serrated, sca¬ 
brous, with a purple tinge ; flowers small, axillary, and terminal 
—when the latter is the case, they are in clusters of five or six 
corolla funnel-shaped ; tube deep purple ; limb four-lobed; lobes 
spreading, rounded, rather paler than the tube. It has been re¬ 
cently introduced, and flowered with Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, 
in June 1848. 
