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possesses in its numerous flowers, in the rich violet or lavender- 
coloured tomentum of the calyx, and the pure white of the 
corollas, a beauty which cannot well be represented. It is a 
native of Mexico, and has now been first introduced to the green¬ 
house of this country, from a garden at Nice, by Lady Smirke, 
Great Stanmore, in whose collection it flowered in June 1847.— 
Bot. Mag . 4318. 
S CROPHULARTACEiE. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Penstemon Gordoni. For the opportunity of figuring this 
charming*species of Penstemon I am indebted to Edward Leeds, 
Esq., of Manchester, who raised it from seeds given him by Mr. 
Shepherd, of the Botanic Gardens, Liverpool, and which had 
been collected by Mr. Gordon in the valley of the Platte River, 
on the east side of the Rocky Mountains. In many respects it 
approaches the Penstemon speciosus, an inhabitant exclusively 
of the Oregon territory, west of the Rocky Mountains; but that 
has much narrower leaves, a less leafy panicle, deeper coloured 
flowers, a larger calyx, and, above, all, the anthers and sterile 
filaments glabrous. The present species seems to be quite hardy, 
but, Mr. Leeds observes, is impatient of too much moisture, and 
it should be kept quite dry from November to February. It 
flowers in June, when the large sky-blue flowers render the plant 
a beautiful object.— Bot. Mag. 4319. 
Cyrtandrace^e. —Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
AEschynanthus speciosus (Hooker). This, in our opinion at 
least, was the most charming of the many fine plants exhibited 
at the Regent’s Park Garden show in May 1847, and is unques¬ 
tionably the most beautiful species yet known to us, of a genus 
eminent for the rich colouring of its blossoms. Judging, how¬ 
ever, from the dried specimens of another kind (JY longijlorus), 
which has yet flowered but imperfectly with Messrs. Yeitch and 
Son, we shall soon have the opportunity of figuring one which 
will vie with the present, if it does not exceed it, in the size of 
the flowers and in depth of colouring. Mr. Thomas Lobb, 
from whom the seeds were received by Messrs. Yeitch and Son, 
detected this plant in Java, on Mount Asapan, near Bantam, at¬ 
tached to the trunks of forest trees. The flowers are produced 
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