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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
short cvmes of from nine to eleven each, on stalks somewhat 
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shorter than the leaves; they are of a clear, bright blue, and 
very handsome; the corolla is an inch and a half across_, with a 
flat limb a very short tube, and long projecting stamens. The 
species has been regarded by M. Choisy as a variety of Jacque- 
montia violacea, the Convolvulus pentanthus of gardens, but it is 
certainly quite distinct and far handsomer. The seeds were col¬ 
lected by Mr. Hartweg near the village of Fusagasuga, in the pro¬ 
vince of Bogota .—j Bot. Reg. 27-47. 
La rd iz ab uL a c e M.—Monoecia Hexandria . 
Ahehia guinata (Decaisne). Mr. Fortune, who sent this plant 
to the Horticultural Society says, “ I found it growing on the 
lower sides of the hills, in hedges, where it was climbing on other 
trees, and hanging down in graceful festoons from the ends of 
their branches. The colour of its flowers in China is of a dark 
brown, and they are very sweet-scented; indeed it was the de¬ 
lightful fragrance which first attracted my attention to the spot 
where the plant was growing. In the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, where it has flowered for the first time in England, the 
flowers are much lighter in colour and nearly scentless. We may 
still hope, however, that when the plant gets older it will shed its 
fragrance on us. 
As the past winter has proved many of my Chusan plants 
perfectly hardy in this country, there is every reason to suppose 
that this Akebia will succeed well when grown on trellis in the 
open air. Young plants are easily made from cuttings of the 
stems or roots treated in the ordinary way. In China, it generally 
grows in poor well-drained soil.— Bot. Reg . 28-47. 
Acanthaceee. — JDidyna?nia Angiospermia. 
Ruellia Purdieana (Hooker). A desirable acanthaceous plant 
for cultivation in the stove, having ample deep green leaves, 
which with the stem are quite smooth. It strikes freely 
from cuttings, blossoming at an early period and at different 
seasons of the year, and the flowers are a full deep crimson 
lilac. In character it approaches the R. bracteata of Mr. Brown, 
from New Holland, from that, however, the present species is 
