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summer, if planted against a wall, it makes a beautiful open 
border plant, flowering frequently during the summer months. 
It assumes the character of a shrub, growing from three to four 
feet high, with terete branches, the younger ones, leaves and 
calyx (the latter more copiously), clothed with tufts of stellated 
patent hairs ; the leaves resemble those of the gooseberry, and 
the flowers are large and handsome, rich blueish purple, slightly 
downy in a broad line outside on each petal.— Bot. Mag. 4329. 
GesneriacEjE. —Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Columnea crassifolia (of the Gardens). This is the largest 
flowered and most beautiful of this beautiful genus, of which I 
regret that I know nothing more concerning its history than 
that it was sent us by Mr. Makoy, of Liege, under the name of 
Columnea crassifolia ; which appellation, being unexceptionable, 
I gladly adopt. It is probably a native of Mexico, and extremely 
different from any species hitherto described. It requires the 
heat of the stove, and is readily increased by cuttings, which are 
exceedingly tenacious of life ; a specimen under pressure for the 
Herbarium, continuing to push a green shoot at the extremity 
two months after being gathered. Our plants are scarcely a foot 
high, disposed to throw out fibrous roots at the joints, terete, 
fleshy, suffruticose, scurfy, with brown scales, which give them 
a spotted appearance. The leaves are four or five inches long, 
narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, fleshy, nearly entire, dark glossy 
green, and quite glabrous above; beneath paler yellowish-red, 
and very slightly hairy. The flowers are borne on short, thick, 
axillary peduncles ; they are erect and very large calyx ; nearly 
an inch long, brownish-green, cut almost to the base into five, 
erect, lanceolate segments; the corolla is between three and four 
inches long, bright scarlet, shaggy, with long red hair; tube 
curved; limb, with the upper lip galeate, entire ; the mouth 
very open, the lower lip having the two lateral segments short, 
and appearing rather to belong to the upper than to the lower 
lip ; the intermediate segment is deflexed.— Bot. Mag. 4320. 
Lobeliace^e. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Siphocampylos glandulosa (Hooker). A handsome species 
of PohTs genus Siphocampylos, from Bogota, of which seeds 
were sent to Sion and to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr 
