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Lilium sinicum, Lindley. Chinese Lily.—Order Liliacese (Lilywort tribe).—This is a small greenhouse 
summer-flowering bulbous plant, very closely related to L. concolor. The stems are about a foot high, covered 
with short down, and furnished with scattered oblong linear leaves ; they hear two or three flowers at the top ; 
these are small, deep scarlet, with revolute segments destitute of warts, but having the nectariferous channel at 
the base bordered by short hairs. It is a native of China, and was introduced originally in 1824 ; Mr. Fortune 
re-introduced it in 1850 to the nursery of Messrs. Standish and Noble of Bagshot. 
Bromelia longifolia, Pudge. Long-leaved Bromelia.—Order Bromeliaceae (Bromeliad tribe). — A fine pine¬ 
apple-like stove perennial, with narrow, channelled, coarsely-spine-toothed leaves, nearly two feet long, and pro - 
ducing a large central compact head of showy rose-coloured flowers, with a few narrow crimson spiny bracts at the 
base. It is a very showy plant, and was produced in August last before the Horticultural Society, by Mr. Hender¬ 
son, of the Wellington Nursery. A native of Guiana. It is figured in Paxton’s Flower Garden , ii., t. 65. 
Viola pyrol^foliAjPozV^. 
Pyrola-leaved Violet.—Order 
Violaceae (Violetwort tribe).— 
This is a very beautiful dwarf 
hardy herbaceous plant, in¬ 
troduced from Patagonia a 
year or two since, by Messrs. 
Veitch of Exeter, and grown 
by them and distributed under 
the erroneous name of V. 
lutea. It produces a tuft of 
small cordate-ovate radical 
leaves, with ovate or linear- 
lanceolate fimbriate stipules, 
and produces very large bright 
yellow blossoms each elevated 
considerably above the foliage 
on a slender stalk. The 
flowers have a short blunt 
spur, and the petals are 
bearded inside with club- 
shaped hairs ; the lower petal 
is obcordate, streaked with 
red lines. It is found in Chili, 
as well as in the straits of 
Magellan; and is the V. ma¬ 
culate, (Cavanilles), V. glandu- 
losa (Dombey herb.), and the 
V. lutea megaphyllos (Com- 
merson herb.). It has been 
figured by M. Van Houtte in 
the Flore des Serres. 
Kltjgia Notontana, JDe 
Candolle . East Indian Elugia. 
—Order Gesneracese § Cyrtan- 
drese (Cyrtandreous Gesner- 
wort tribe).—This soft-stem¬ 
med stove annual is remark¬ 
able for having its large 
cordate leaves remarkably 
diminished on one side at the 
base. The flowers are very 
rich deep blue, and come in 
secund racemes, opposite the 
leaves ; the corolla being very 
unequally two-lipped, the 
lower lip large, blue, and 
yellow at the base, the upper small and yellowish. It is abundant in some parts of the East Indies, and pro¬ 
bably inhabits Ceylon, having been sent to Kew by Mr. Thwaites, from the Botanic Garden at Peradenia. It 
flowers in September. There is a figure at t. 4620 of the Botanical Magazine. It bears the names of Wulfenia 
Botoniana , Glossanthus ISotoniana , and G. malabarica. 
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VIOLA PYROLAFOLIA. 
