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Bogiera amjena, Planchon. Pleasing Bo- 
giera ( Flore des Serves , t. 442).—Nat Orel., 
Cinchonacese, § Cinchoneae-Hedyotidese.—A 
handsome cool stove (? greenhouse) shrub, 
with di- or tri-chotomously divided branches, 
broadly oblong acuminate, opposite downy, 
deep green leaves, two to three inches long ; 
the young leaves are faintly tinged with 
brown. The inflorescence is a many-flowered 
trichotomously branched terminal cyme, the 
blossoms of which are crowded, of a pretty 
rose colour, deeper on the tube. The corolla 
is salver-shaped, with a tube about half an 
inch long, slightly thickened upwards, and 
a limb of five oblong emarginate spreading 
lobes. The flowers measure about half an 
inch across the expanded limb. From Gua¬ 
temala ; temperate regions. Introduced to 
Belgium in 1848. Flowers in summer. 
CUPHEA VERTICILLATA, Humboldt , Bon- 
pland , and Kunth. Whorled-leaved Cuphea 
{Flore des Serves , t. 540).—Nat. Ord., Lythracese § Lythrese.—A pretty half-hardy plant with herbaceous or sub- 
shrubby hairy stems. The leaves are in whorls of three or four, sometimes opposite, and are nearly sessile, oblong 
or ovate-oblong, somewhat rounded at the base, scabrous above, hairy beneath. The flowers are extra-axillary, 
from opposite sides of the stem, and consist of a curved calyx-tube, about an inch long, pale yellowish red, and 
a very irregular corolla of five to eight deep violet petals, of which the two upper are more than half an inch 
long, oblong-obovate, and undulated, the rest minute. From Peru and Columbia: foimd by M. Linden at Pam¬ 
plona upwards of 8000 feet above the level of the sea. Introduced to continental gardens in 1848. Flowers in 
autumn. 
Isoloma breviflora, Bindley. Short-flowered Isoloma {Bot. Mag,, t. 4504).— Nat. Ord., Gesneraceas § Ges- 
nerese.—Syn.: Isoloma Seemanni, JDecaisne; Gesnera breviflora, Findley ; G. Seemanni, Hooker. —A handsome, 
free-blooming, upright-growing stove herb, with scaly tubers. The stems are two feet or more in height, 
simple, and villous ; with the leaves opposite, or three in a whorl, broadly ovate, or sub-ovate, coarsely serrate, 
growing on long stalks, the upper ones gradually smaller. The flowers are in crowded whorls, from the axils 
of the upper leaves, singly on the peduncles; the corolla is very villous, the tube short nearly cylindrical, the 
Bogiera amcena. 
Cuphea verticillata. 
