DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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sometimes a paler scarlet, always produced in a compact leafy, 
terminal umbel. 
ScROPHULARiACEiE. —Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Brunsfelsia nitida var. Jamaicensis (Bentham.) A very hand¬ 
some plant, flowering during the summer months copiously, in a 
cool stove, and easily increased by cuttings ; its blossoms are very 
large and pale yellow, with a narrow tube, and spreading, irregular, 
five lobed limb; the foliage is ample and deep green.— Bot. 
Mag. 4287. 
Bromeliace^e. —Hexandria Monogynia. 
Tillandsia bulbosa picta. This splendid variety was sent from 
Jamaica to the Royal Gardens Kew, by Mr. Purdie, where on 
on being simply suspended by a piece of wire from the beam of 
a moist stove, it flowered in the winter of 1846-7. The stem is 
simple, leafy at the base, immediately swollen and bulbiform, 
the leaves are a span or more long, rigid and terete from the 
singularly incurved or almost convolute sides, dark green, the 
bases of the lower ones singularly dilated into very broad mem¬ 
branous sheathing bases to the bulb ; the upper leaves gradually 
smaller and almost bracteiform, richly tinged with scarlet and 
vellow; the spike is racemose, the branches compressed and 
clothed with distichous scarlet, imbricated bracteas, entirely 
concealing the flower-buds, calyx of three green convolute sepals, 
corolla of three linear-lanceolate, purple, acuminated petals twice 
as long as the calyx.— Bot. Mag. 4288. 
CoNVOLVULACEiE .—Pen t andria Monogynia. 
Pharbitis cathartica (Choisy.) A native of St. Domingo, 
Porto Rico, and Mexico according to Choisy; we may further 
add Santa Martha, in New Grenada, whence Mr. Purdie sent seeds 
in 1845, which flowered at Sion Gardens in November of the 
same year, and made a very lovely appearance. The colour of 
the corolla is particularly vivid, varying from deep reddish purple 
to rich violet blue.-— Bot. Mag. 4289. 
L ab I a T.E . —Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
Scutellaria cordifolia (Bentham.) For this beautiful Scutel- 
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