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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLA.NTS. 
largest and most magnificent species of the genus, being adorned 
with two kinds of urns, both elegant in their forms and brilliant 
*n their colouring.” The cirrhi of the lower leaves are not 
twisted, but hang straight from the apex ; they terminate in 
large ventricose and highly coloured ascidia or urns, fringed 
along the interior angles with two membraneous fimbriate wings, 
somewhat contracted at the mouth, which opens obliquely, risin g 
much higher and slightly recurved behind, where the operculum or 
lid is inserted. The tendrils of the upper leaves are twisted into 
one or two spires at'the middle, and terminate in long ascend¬ 
ing funnel-shaped urns, flattened anteriorly but not winged, 
and gracefully turned at the mouth like an antique vase or urn. 
Both have the inverted margin beautifully and delicately striated, 
and variegated with parallel stripes of purple, crimson, and 
yellow. The lids are incumbent, membraneous, ovate, marked 
with two principal longitudinal nerves, and cuspidate behind the 
hinge. The racemes of flowers are at first terminal, but the stem 
begins after a time to shoot beyond them, and they become lateral, 
and are always opposite to a leaf, which differs from the others 
in being sessile and urnless ; the pedicles are thickly set together, 
so that the deep red calyces touch each other, and being enlivened 
with the bright yellow round head of the anthers, has a very 
striking appearance.— Bot. Mag . 4285. 
Lobeliace^e. Bentandria Monogynia. 
Siphocampylos microstoma. (Hooker). Among.many fine species 
of Siphocampylos detected by Mr. Purdie in New Grenada, few, 
if any, can vie with this in the size of the flowers and richness 
of their colour. It seems also to produce its blossoms early and 
freely, and they continue a long time in perfection, so much so, 
that though our plants were only raised from seed twelve months 
ago, they have been gay with flowers throughout the whole 
autumn and winter months, and have proved a great acquisition 
to our stoves during this dreary season. In the summer, a green¬ 
house will be a better situation for it, and from the succession of 
buds that are forming, it seems to be one of those plants which 
one may reckon on having in bloom at all times of the year. 
Some of our plants have the stems and branches deeply tinged 
with purple, and the corollas are occasionally of a deeper and 
