DESCRIPTIVE LIST OE NEW PLANTS. 
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green leaves, produced in whorls, from the axils of which rises 
the footstalks of the flowers ; these have fine spreading petals and 
a rather long attenuated spur: their colour is a full rose, with 
two or three crimson bands proceeding from the eye of the 
flower. It requires to be kept in a moist atmosphere and strong 
heat during the growing season, to be treated like such plants as 
Gloxinia, Achimenes, &c., and to be afterwards rested by with¬ 
holding moisture. It is increased freely by cuttings when young, 
and grows in any light rich soil. It flowers during most part 
of the summer, and is a great beauty when kept from drying 
winds, which ruin it. The species is derived from Java, whence 
it was imported by Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, with whom it 
flowered last summer.— Bot Reg. 68-46. 
RanunculacEtE. —Polyandria Polygynia. 
Clematis tubulosa (Walp.) A handsome but singular-looking 
Clematis, with an upright, slightly-branched stem, long petioled 
leaves, and clusters of blue flowers ; these are produced in axil¬ 
lary and terminal corymbs, the four sepals are bluish purple, at 
first forming a tube, then reflexed, the lower half slightly swollen, 
base only tubular. It is a native of Northern China.— Bot. Mag. 
4269. 
Labiates. —Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
Scutellaria Ventenatii (Hooker). A fine species with brilliant 
scarlet flowers ; it was detected* by Mr. Purdie, in the mountains 
near Santa Martha, and seeds were sent home by him in 1845, 
which were reared in the summer and autumn of 1846. It has 
been treated as a greenhouse plant, but would doubtless flourish 
and prove highly ornamental to our flower-borders.— Bot. Mag. 
4271. 
Ericaceae. —Decandria Monogynia. 
Lyonia Jamaicensis (D. C.) A shrub of moderate size, with 
spreading, angular, green branches, more or less clothed, as is 
every part of the plant, even the pedicles, calyx, and corolla, with 
minute furfuraceous scales, most copious on the very young 
branches and pedicles, and there giving a ferruginous downy ap¬ 
pearance ; the leaves are about two inches long, ovate, lanceolate, 
