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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OE NEW PLANTS. 
Liege, under the erroneous name of “ yellow Rondeletia.” It is 
quite clear that this is no Rondeletia, nor any Rubiaceous plant, 
but a true REgiphila, with singularly large yellow tubular flowers, 
borne in terminal corymbes, well worthy a place in every collec¬ 
tion, flowering , as its does in the middle of winter, in a warm 
stove, and then the flowers are succeeded by the glaucous-blue 
berries.— Rot. Mag . 4230. 
Lentibularie^e.- —Diandria Monogynia. 
Pinguicula orchidiodes. Among the many interesting objects 
to be seen at the Royal Gardens at Kew, during the latter part of 
the present winter (1845-6), was a number of pots of this most 
lovely species of Pinguicula , in full blossom, plunged in sphag¬ 
num and other mosses, in cool stoves, where they flourished as 
well as if they had been in their native mountains of Mexico. 
The plant is stemless, and the leaves are of two kinds, the outer 
or lower ones small, numerous, closely imbricated, resembling 
scales; the upper or inner ones comparatively larger, fewer, and 
resembling those of an Echeveria. The flowers are in size and form 
somewhat like those of the violet, of a pleasing bright rosy purple, 
having a long, slightly-curved spur behind.— Rot. Mag. 4231. 
Solanace^e. —Pentandria Monogynia 
Solanum lycioides. This charming shrub was found by Mr. 
Hartweg in the valley of San Antonio, in Peru, and flowered in 
Jthe garden of the Horticultural Society, in Nov. 1845. It has a 
neat habit; the flowers are of the richest sapphire purple, en¬ 
livened by a bright yellow eye, and in the wild state appear in 
clusters, so as to load the little spiny branches. In cultivation, it 
loses some of its stiff spiney habit, and has not hitherto yielded 
flowers in clusters, but they are larger than in the wild state. It is 
by no means new to Europe ; for it was represented in Jaquin’s f Fi¬ 
gures of Rare Plants,’ above sixty years ago, but it has disappeared 
from the gardens of this country. It is found to be a greenhouse 
plant, which appears to succeed in almost any sort of soil, but to 
prefer sandy loam mixed with a little rough peat.— Rot. Reg. 25-46. 
F ABACEiE . —Riadelphia Decandria . 
Oxyramphis macrostyla. Among the doubtful Crotalarias of 
He Candolle’s Prodromus was one, taken up from Don, which 
was called C. macrostyla, and described with diadelphous stamens 
and a long feathery style. That plant Dr. Wallich afterwards 
