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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
tection of a greenhouse in the winter. In the summer it does 
best in the open air.-— Bot. Mag. 4201. 
Con vOLVULACEiE . —Pentandria Digynia. 
Evolvulus purpuro-ccerulens. A small but most lovely little 
suffruticose plant, with copious flowers, at first not much unlike 
those of Anagallis coerulea , but borne upon erect twiggy branches, 
with small patent or reflexed leaves, and worthy a place in every 
garden on account of the brilliant colour of its blossoms. It in¬ 
habits arid rocks near the sea, in the district of Manchester, 
Jamaica, and caught the attention of Mr, Purdie, its discoverer, 
who sent home seeds of it to the Royal Gardens of Kew, by 
its showy bright blue flowers. A variety has bloomed at Kew, 
from the same country, with pale blue flowers. It was reared in 
the stove, and requires to be kept moderately moist. Flowers in 
July and August.— Bot. Mag. 4202. 
ScROPHULARJACEiE. —JDiandria Monogynia. 
Veronica Lindleyana. This, as an elegant ally of V. speciosa , 
does not aspire to the magnificence of that species, but in other 
respects it has more interesting features. The habit of V. spe¬ 
ciosa is of a stiff and robust nature ; this, on the contrary, is free 
and elegant. Its flower-spikes are produced in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion, and these covered with innumerable delicate white flowers, 
contrasting with their light purple anthers, produce a charming 
effect. Mr. Glendinning of the Chiswick Nursery, with whom 
the plant has lately bloomed, writes : “ Veronica Lindleyana was 
raised from seeds sent from New Zealand, in October, 1843, by 
Mr. T. Cleghorn, formerly a nurseryman in Edinburgh. It was 
presented to me by my esteemed friend Mr. James McNab, Cu¬ 
rator of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
Edinburgh. It flowered in one of my greenhouses this autumn, 
for the first time in Europe, at least as far as I am aware ; and 
when shown to the distinguished botanist whose name it bears, 
he pronounced it to be perhaps a new species. It was exhibited 
by me in September last before the Horticultural Society of Lon¬ 
don, and obtained the Banksian medal. It was then loaded with 
innumerable spikes of its elegant white flowers, and will some¬ 
times produce as many as twelve spikes on one short branch. 
It should be grown in a moderately rich soil, composed of three 
