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are indebted to Mr. Whitfield. It bloomed with Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, and Co., of the Exeter Nursery, in June 1847, for the first 
time, we believe, in this country. It is a handsome and most 
distinctly-marked species, with long greenish-white flowers, pro¬ 
duced in terminal clusters of fifteen or twenty, and a style twice 
the length of the corollas, terminated by a large globose stigma. 
It requires, we need hardly say, the heat of the stove for its 
successful cultivation, and does not seem shy of flowering.— 
Bot. Mag. 4322. 
Trop^ole^. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Tropceolum speciosum (Endl. et Poepp.) This is a charming 
addition to our species of the handsome genus Tropczolum, im¬ 
ported by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Exeter, through the inter¬ 
vention of their excellent collector, Mr. W. Lobb. Being a 
native of Chiloe, no wonder it bears our climate through all the 
summer months ; but whether it will endure the winter in the 
open air in England remains to be ascertained. It will probably 
prove equally hardy with, and more ornamental than most of 
our Tropceola. The plant is of medium habit, and produces its 
large, brilliant, vermilion-red flowers very freely.— Bot. Mag. 
4523. 
RubiacevE. —Tetandria Monogynia. 
Ixora GriffitJiii (Hooker). The ample foliage, the large com¬ 
pact cyme of very rich yellow and orange-coloured flowers, with 
the long slender tube of the corolla and the almost orbicular 
segments, together with the blunt and short-toothed calyx, distin¬ 
guish this from the numerous species, hitherto known to us, of 
the present genus. It was introduced from Singapore, by the 
son of Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, and has been, we be¬ 
lieve, disposed of by him under the unpublished and scarcely 
appropriate name of I. hydrangeaformis. Its present name 
serves to commemorate its first discoverer, the late Mr. Griffith, 
from whom I possess specimens gathered at Mergui. It is a 
really noble species, and will prove invaluable to our stoves, 
where it requires the same treatment as our favorites I. coccinia 
and striata , to both of which it is superior in size of the inflo- 
