78 REVIEW. 
grow they may be pricked singly into small pots, and placed in a frame, or the shelf of a greenhouse.” Though 
recommended to he grown in a greenhouse, they require complete protection from a low temperature in winter. 
An util on insigne, Flanchon. Remarkable Abutilon ( Flore des Serves , t. 551).—-Nat. Ord., Malvaceae § Sidese. 
—A charming greenhouse shrub of vigorous growth, thriving in the open ground during s umm er, and well 
adapted for a cool conservatory. The young branches are clothed with dense stellate rufous down. The leaves 
are large, on long petioles, alternate, cordate, somewhat three-lobed, and coarsely serrated, palmato-seven-nerved, 
with reticulated veins. The flowers are about two inches in diameter, and grow in axillary racemes of three to 
seven flowers; the calyx is campanulate, with triangular acute lobes; the corolla consists of five obovate euneate 
petals, crisped, and plicate with erose margins-, they are of a lively rose-colour, with deeper coloured veins. From 
New Grenada: mountain regions. Introduced to continental gardens by Mr. Linden, through his collectors, 
M.M. Schlim and Funck. Flowers in the autumn. 
Arctocalyx Enelicherianus, Fenzl. Endlicher’s Arctocalyx ( Flore des Serves, t. 546).—Nat. Ord., Gesne- 
raceas § Gesnereae.—A remarkably looking, shaggy epiphytal shrubby plant of some beauty, requiring a cool 
humid stove. The stems are stout, generally simple, five or six feet in length, rooting, purplish, covered thickly 
with long shaggy greyish hairs. The leaves are opposite, broadly elliptic, acuminate, unequal at the base, vel¬ 
vety from the presence of long soft hairs. The flowers are axillary on short stalks, solitary or from two to five 
in a sub-umbellate fascicle; the calyx is tubular-campanulate, shaggy, nearly an inch long; the corolla, which is 
golden yellow, extends about two inches beyond the calyx, and is hairy on the outside, smooth within ; the tube 
curved, broadest upwards, dividing into a limb of five broad nearly equal lobes, which are fringe-toothed on the 
margin, and marked on the face with lines of brown-purple spots. The name is constructed in allusion to the 
shaggy ursine appearance of the calyx. From Yera Cruz: forests of Mirador, elevation 2000 feet. Introduced to 
Berlin, in 1847, by M. Abel, having been discovered by C. Heller. Flowers in? It should have the treatment 
given to other semi-epiphytal shrubby stove Gesneraceae. 
Oncedium serratum, Lindley. Serrated Oncid ( Faxt. FI. Gard ., i. 28).—Nat. Ord., Orchidaceae, § Yandese- 
Brassideae.—A curious epiphyte. The pseudo-bulbs are oblong; smooth, terete, each hearing two broad sword¬ 
shaped leaves at their points, and several others below them. The flower stem grows nine feet long, partly 
twining, with five or six lateral branches, each hearing four to six moderate-sized flowers, the divisions of which 
are crisped and serrated at the margin, brownish olive, the upper half of the petals of a clear bright yellow.— 
From Peru. Introduced to Paris in 1848. Flowers in winter and spring. 
Aotus coedefolius, Bentham. Heart-leaved Aotus.—Nat. Ord., Fabaceae § Papilionacese Pulteneae.—Syn : 
Gastrolobium Hugelii, of gardens. —A pretty greenhouse hush with heart-shaped leaves arranged in threes, and 
axillary yellow papilionaceous flowers, of large size and very numerous. From Swan Biver. Introduced about 
1847. Flowers in summer. Messrs. Knight and Perry (see ante, i., 161). 
Adenocalyvdia comosum, Be Candolle. Hop-flowered Adenocalymma ( Bot . Mag., t. 4210).—Nat. Ord., 
Bignoniacese.—Syn: A. nitidum, Lindley, in Baxt. FI. Gard.i., t., 2, according to Hooker; Bignonia comosum, 
Cliamisso. —A very pretty stove plant, with smooth climbing stems. The leaves consist either of three leaflets, or 
of two, with an intermediate tendril, the leaflets being elliptic-oblong or ovate, shining, and seated on short stalks. 
The flowers grow in axillary, or nearly terminal crowded racemes; “which are at first so densely clothed with 
large concave bracts, as to look like the large aments of the Hop ; these fall away before the corollas expand.” 
The corolla is trumpet-shaped, two inches long, of a leathery and rather a velvety texture, and deep yellow 
colour; its tube is narrow at the base, enlarged upwards into the spreading or somewhat recurved limb of five 
nearly equal rounded lobes. From Brazil: in forests. Introduced in 1841. Flowers in February. Messrs. 
Knight and Perry, Exotic Nursery, Chelsea ; and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
tlrnira. 
Bie Flora der Bodenseegegend. Yon Dr. M. H. Hofle, etc., etc. The Flora of the Lake of Constance. By Dr. M. 
H. Hofle, Lecturer on Botany in the University of Heidelberg. Erlangen : 1850. 
Lately reading the Memoirs of the Prince de Ligne, we were much struck with a passage in which he affirms 
that the love of flowers is the only passion that does not decrease with the approach of age. The Prince is right; 
and he might have added, that there is no pursuit better calculated than Botany to inspire youth or age with a 
love of virtue. We cannot conceive it possible for a botanist to he anything hut a good man. He must be 
amiable, and pious, and devout; for his pursuits naturally awaken religious feelings within him, and cannot hut 
he associated with ennobling and lofty sentiments. And then its pleasures—the wilderness of thorns and bram¬ 
bles—the bald and burnt moor—the marsh’s sedgy shallows, where docks, bulrushes, and water-flags choke the 
rank waste—as well as the richest and most cultivated pastures—all yield them alike abundantly. 
But we are neither going to dilate upon the delights of Botany nor the excellencies or defects of a German 
work. Y 7 e merely offer the latter as a model to he followed by those who love the former, and unselfishly desire 
to aid in the spread of knowledge, as well as to gratify their own propensities for the beautiful and the rare. It 
is much to he regretted that local Floras are not general in England. In Germany there is scarce a village that 
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