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throughout the year that it does not produce blossoms. With 
bottom heat it becomes a luxuriant plant, and it must always be 
considered an inhabitant of the stove. The plant is shrubby but 
succulent, clothed with rather large, ternately whorled, soft, 
downy leaves. The flowers are produced on slender, drooping 
peduncles, singly, from the axils of the leaves; the calyx is 
downy, and divided into five long pointed teeth; the corolla is 
twice as long as the calyx, between infundibuliform and campa- 
nulate ; the tube downy, pale ; the limb spreading, deep purple, 
two-lipped, wavy ; the upper lip two- the lower three-lobed; the 
lobes subrotund; within the mouth, below, is a deep yellow line. 
— Bot. Mag. 4327. 
CYSTANDRACEiE. — Bidynamia Angiospermia , 
AEschynanthus longijlorus (Blume). When describing the 
AEschynanthus speciosus , we gave our readers reason to expect 
that another species would soon be represented, which would 
vie in beauty with that eminently handsome plant, and we now 
keep our pledge. Closely as are the two species allied, they are 
unquestionably distinct; and the differences are equally apparent 
in the dried native specimens as in the living ones. 
Much of the beauty of 2E. speciosus is due to the varied colour 
(red and yellow) of the corolla; in the present, to the uniform 
puce of the entire flower. Here the mouth of the corolla is much 
contracted, with the segments or lobes erect, the style scarcely 
exserted beyond the corolla, the stamens very much so : in 
2E. speciosus the style is very much exserted, the stamens scarcely 
so at all. Messrs. Yeitch and Son, of Exeter, have equally the 
credit of introducing this as the one last mentioned, through their 
East Indian collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, from Java; it is pro¬ 
bably derived from the locality mentioned by Blume, “mountain 
woods,” province of Bantam. It flowered with Messrs. Yeitch 
in August, 1847.— Bot. May. 4328. 
Malvaceae. — Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Hibiscus glossularicefolius (Miquel). Australia does not seem 
eminently rich in species of Hibiscus ; but some of them are very 
beautiful, and the present is no exception. It was raised in the 
Royal Gardens of Kew, from Swan River seeds sent by Mr. 
Drummond, and has this character to recommend it—that in 
