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buted under the name of Hypocyrta discolor of Lindley. We 
have frequently had occasion to remark how very ill defined are 
the genera of Gesneriaceous plants, still we think this can hardly 
be referred to Hypocyrta of Martius, but rather to Alloplectus of 
the same author, destined to receive the well known Beslerea coc- 
cinea, (Lin.) and the allied species, which have the margins of 
some of the vessels variously complicate or plicate. It seems 
with equal certainty to be the A. dichrous of De Candolle ; Bes- 
leria bicolor (Schott) ; Schott’s original character entirely accords 
with it, and he says nothing about the colour of the corolla, 
which De Candolle (who appears to have seen the species), per¬ 
haps by some error, states to be red in the tube whereas it is 
yellow ; Martins’s figure and description of A. sparsijlorus leaves 
no doubt of that being synonymous and not happily named, for 
he correctly represents the flowers as aggregated. 
Cultivated as this plant is at Kew among the various red and 
orange-coloured and purple-flowered Gesneriaceous plants, it 
makes a singular contrast with its dark black purple, or blood- 
coloured calyx and pale yellow very woolly corollas; it may be 
increased by cuttings.— Bot.Mag ., Tab. 4216. 
Gesneria Hondensis. A very handsome Gesneria, discovered 
by Humboldt at Honda, New Grenada. Tubers were sent to the 
Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Purdie, early in 1845 ; it has 
flowered at Syon Gardens in December of the same year; the 
rich scarlet of the flowers, yellow at the mouth, remind one of 
the well known Manettia bicolor, but here the red is due to the 
shaggy hair, altogether of that colour, with which the tube of the 
corolla is clothed for almost its whole length. It requires the 
same kind of treatment as other species of this fine genus, and it 
appears that by a little management in forcing or retarding the 
tubers they may be made to blossom at almost every season of the 
year.— Bot. Mag. 4217. 
Malvaceae. —Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Fugosia heterophylla. A very pretty shrub, named by Cava- 
nilles in honour of Bernard Cienfuegos, a Spanish botanist of the 
sixteenth century, and now, we believe, first cultivated in England 
from seeds sent from St. Martha by our collector, Mr. Purdie, in 
1845 ; the general appearance of the blossoms is not much un¬ 
like those of Turnera ulmifolia , but when the centre of the flower 
