yellow, glandular, pubescence; the throat is mottled inside; the limb 
five-lobed, and sub-bilabiate; the two upper lobes somewhat larger, 
rounded, slightly reflected, and slightly pubescent within; the three 
lower-most lobes patent, the middle one rather the smallest. Stamens 
four, didynamous, two as long and two rather longer than the tube, to 
which they are attached immediately above the dilated base : filaments 
hairy below, glandular towards the top, and smooth in the middle. 
Anthers cream-coloured, incumbent, two-lobed, lobes free below, 
oblong, bursting longitudinally, the connective projecting backwards 
in the form a small white gland. There is a minute tuft of hair 
between the two shorter stamens, which may be considered as a fifth 
rudimentary stamen. Pistil length of the shorter stamens. Ovarium 
conical, depressed, two-celled, hairy above, seated on a pale, smooth, 
fleshy, disk ; style subulately-filiform, and (together with the stamens) 
inclined to the upper side of the corolla, glabrous, but with a few 
glandular hairs near the base. Stigma small, forming a mere glan¬ 
dular apex, curved at right angles to the style, obscurely lobed, 
though one lobe is evidently longer than the other. Ovules in each 
cell numerous, attached to a central placenta. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. In Vol. 1, No. 17, we 
have figured and described the Lophospermum scandens, and have 
alluded to the Lophospermum erubescens, as a plant which has been 
frequently mistaken for the former. Our present plant is a hybrid, 
raised last year (i840), by Mr. Turner, of the Bury Botanic Garden, 
from seeds of the Lophospermum scandens, fertilized by pollen of the 
Lophospermum erubescens; and it may be considered a decided 
improvement (if we may use such an expression), on the general 
appearance and beauty of either parent. We are entirely opposed in 
sentiment to those persons who regret the introduction of hybrid 
plants, merely because it is troublesome to assign to them a place in 
our systematic arrangements. We wmuld request the systematist to 
remember that the botanist has a higher object than merely describing 
and arranging specific forms. Such a branch of our science must 
ever be looked upon as a means to an end. The ultimate aim of true 
science is to ascertain the laws by which nature is governed; and the 
more we multiply our experiments, and the more care we take in 
noting the results, the more likely are we to arrive at definite notions 
of those laws. At present no one knows with certainty what are the 
true limits to the variations in form which any one species may assume ; 
and it is impossible to foresee whether multiplied observations on 
