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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
laria the Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted to Messrs. Rollison 
of Tooting, who had received it from the continent under the 
name of S. splendens. The brilliant red colour, the size and 
general form of the flowers indicate an affinity with 8. Ventenatii ; 
but the hue is more inclined to orange red, the corolla is longer 
and more slender, the flowers are not secund or distichous, but 
subverticillate, and pointing in all directions; it has shorter 
stems, and very different foliage, in colour, form, texture, and 
reticulation. It is a native of Misantla and other parts of 
Mexico, and flowers in the stove in September and October. 
Bot. Mag . 4290. 
Asclepiadace^e. —Pentandria Bigynia. 
Raphistemma pulchellum, (Wallicli.) A very handsome stove 
twiner, with numerous campanulate flowers, borne in a corymb ; 
they are white when first expanded, but change to cream-colour, 
with a small streak of crimson in the centre of each division of 
the limb. It is nearly equal to Sfephanotis jiorihundus for 
culture in pots, and superior to it as a conservatory or stove 
climber, inasmuch as it is not so stiff in its habit, and therefore 
more suitable for training to columns or rafters in the interior of 
a glass structure. Silhet, Gowalpara, Tavoy, and other places in 
the British territory of Hindostan are given as natural habitats 
of the species.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
GesneriacetE. —Didynamia Angiospermia . 
Niphcea albo-lineata (Hooker). The genus Niphcea was re¬ 
cently established by Dr. Lindley upon a Guatemalan plant, and 
is derived from v~Kpas, snow, in allusion to the snowy white blos¬ 
soms. The present species, evidently of the same genus, and 
preserving the same character in the pure white of its flow r ers, 
was discovered by Mr. Purdie on moist banks near Laguneta, 
Ocana, in New Grenada. The curious scaly roots, resembling 
those of Achimenes coccinea , were sent to the Royal Gardens in 
1845, and quickly came to perfection, being planted in pots with 
a mixture of loam, peat, and leaf-mould, and placed in the tro¬ 
pical propagating house. By a little management in the periods 
of planting these roots, by which the plant readily increases, it 
may be made to bloom at almost all seasons of the year, and 
