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gesneriaceous plant, of which tubers were sent to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew by Mr. Purdie, from the Sierra Nivada of Santa 
Martha, New Granada. It has an erect, branched, herbaceous 
stem, the leaves are opposite, hairy, especially above, ovate, acute, 
wrinkled with veins, paler, and less hairy beneath; the flowers 
are white, with a streak of yellow in the throat, about the size of 
those of Achimenes coccinea, and are borne on terminal, trichoto- 
mously divided panicles. It is a stove plant, and flowered in 
August, 1846, at Kew. The genus was adopted by Mr. Ben- 
tliam, and appears to be intermediate between the genera 
Achimenes and Gesneria. — Bot. Mag. 4254. 
Verbenacea. —Bidynamia Angiospermia „ 
Clerodendron sinuatum. Sent, in July 1846, from the rich 
collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, who 
received it from Sierra Leone, discovered by Mr. Whitfield. It 
is one of those plants to which a drawing cannot do justice, and 
whose charm depends on the gracefulness of the entire plant, 
flowering at an early period, and bearing dense heads of flowers 
at the extremity of every branch, and these blossoms, too, are 
highly fragrant, and of the tenderest and purest white. It 
deserves a place in every stove collection.— Bot. Mag. 4255. 
GqodenovEjE. —Bentandria Monogynia. 
Leschenaultia splendens. The splendid colour of the flowers 
of this plant is only to be compared with that of the Verbena 
Melindres. Seeds of it were sent to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 
and Co., by Mr. James Drummond. Two varieties were raised 
at the same time, the present, and one having broader segments 
to the corolla, which is also of a deeper but not so bright a 
scarlet; the latter is called L. splendens stricta. In the general 
structure and size of the flowers, and somewhat in habit, the 
present species resembles the L. biloba. Handsome as is the 
variety stricta , it is far exceeded by the true splendens , which is 
of a more bushy character, and the whole surface is literally 
covered with its brilliant blossoms, continuing a long time in 
perfection.— Bot. Mag. 4256. 
Tremandrace^:. — Octandria Bigynia. 
Tetratheca verticillata. An elegant greenhouse plant, with 
