242 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— July I, 1850. 
CALBOA GLOBOSA. 
This belongs to tlie Natural order of Bindweeds (Convol- 
vulacere), and to Pentandria Monogynia of the Linmoan 
System. It is the Morena globosa of some botanists, and 
[Calboa Globosa.] 
the Quamoclit globosa of others. Under this last-men¬ 
tioned name it is noticed in The Cottage Gardeners’ 
Dictionary. 
“Raised from seeds received from Mr. 
Hartweg in January. 1840, said to have been 
collected on the eastern declivity of Orizaba, 
in Mexico. 
“ A rambling perennial, smooth in every 
part. Leaves thin, dull green, on long stalks, 
extremely variable in form; some are cordate 
and acuminate; others sagittate; others 
completely hastate, with the lobes all narrow, 
and the lower ones deeply angular. The 
flowers grow in naked umbels, on a peduncle 
nine or ten inches long ; the pedicels are 
from one inch and a half to four inches long. 
Each sepal has a long subulate process at the 
back. The corolla is two inches and a half 
long, deep rich red, with a curved cylindrical 
tube, and a campanulate erect limb, divided 
into five erect rounded wavy lobes. The sta¬ 
mens are declinate, and longer than the 
corolla. 
“ This very curious plant was referred to 
Quamoclit by Mr. Bentham; but it appears to 
be perfectly distinct from that genus in its 
declinate stamens, and curved corolla with a 
great campanulate inflated limb. Whether 
or not there may be more than one species is 
somewhat uncertain. The Calboa vitifolia of 
Cavanilles, from St. Bias, in California, is 
figured by that author with five long distinct 
reflexed segments to its corolla, which is said 
to be yellow on the outside, and purplish-red 
in the inside. If so, it must be distinct from 
this. The plant in the Society’s garden is 
undistinguishable from the Guatemala speci¬ 
mens brought home by Hartweg, and yet it 
was raised from Mexican seeds. This gives 
rise to a suspicion that Cavanilles’ account is 
not to be trusted, and that there may be only 
one species; if so, it will bear the name of 
C. vitifolia. 
“ A strong half-woody climber, growing 
freely in any good rich soil composed of loam 
and sandy peat. It is easily increased by 
cuttings of the young shoots, and requires to 
be kept rather dry in a cool part of the stove 
during the winter, but should be grown in a 
cool airy part of the greenhouse during sum¬ 
mer, where it will flower from August to 
October. 
“ Although undoubtedly a fine species, 
it is only fit for growing where there is 
plenty of room for its tops to spread. It 
will not flower in a pot, and must therefore 
be planted in ‘he open ground.”—( Hort. Soc. 
Journal.) 
WARDIAN CASE AND AQUARIUM COMBINED. 
I have lately had an opportunity of inspecting a new com¬ 
bination of the Wardian Case with a fresh water Aquarium, 
which appears to me so interesting, and so beautifully 
adapted for ornamenting either the greenhouse or the 
drawing-room, that I requested permission to forward an 
account of it to you, thinking it might be equally interesting 
to many of your readers. 
The inventor, if I may so call him, is Mr. H. Baines, 
Sub-Curator of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s 
Museum and Gardens, and he has, at present, in full opera¬ 
tion, a considerable number of these very elegant compound 
cases. I enclose you a slight sketch of the general appear¬ 
ance of one of them. 
It consists, in the first instauce, of a glass vase, of about 
twelve inches in diameter and nine inches deep. This is 
furnished near the top rim with a grooved flange, which 
serves at once to sustain the bell-glass and to receive the 
condensed moisture arising from the surface of the water in 
the Aquarium. Into the centre of the glass vase, or tdnk, is 
inserted a pedestal, also of glass, and on this is placed a blue 
glass dish, or tazza, made to fit on to the top of the pedestal. 
I may here observe that Mr. Baines has had the lower vases 
made purposely of glass slightly tinged with blue by the 
mixture of a little cobalt with the other materials of flint 
glass, and finds them do better than when made of pure 
white metal. 
His mode of stocking the Cases is as follows:—The 
pedestal being inserted into the vase, the bottom is covered 
with two or three inches of fresh soil, not too rich, in which 
the aquatics are planted. The soil is covered with a layer, 
