descriptive list of new plants. 
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summer, if planted against a wall, it makes a beautiful open 
border plant, flowering frequently during the summer months. 
It assumes the character of a shrub, growing from three to four 
feet high, with terete branches, the younger ones, leaves and 
calyx (the latter more copiously), clothed with tufts of stellated 
patent hairs ; the leaves resemble those of the goosebeny, and 
the flowers are large and handsome, rich blueish purple, slightly 
downy in a broad line outside on each petal. Hof. Mag. 432!). 
Gesneriace^e. — Hidynamia Angiospermia. 
Columnea crassifolici (of the Gardens). This is the largest 
flowered and most beautiful of this beautiful genus, of which I 
regret that I know nothing more concerning its history than 
that it was sent us by Mr. Makoy, of Liege, under the name of 
Columned crassifolia; which appellation, being unexceptionable, 
I gladly adopt. It is probably a native of Mexico, and extremely 
different from any species hitherto described. It requires the 
heat of the stove, and is readily increased by cuttings, which are 
exceedingly tenacious of life ; a specimen under pressure for the 
Herbarium, continuing to push a green shoot at the extremity 
two months after being gathered. Our plants are scarcely a foot 
high, disposed to throw out fibrous roots at the joints, teiete, 
fleshy, suffruticose, scurfy, with brown scales, which give them 
a spotted appearance. The leaves are four or five inches long, 
narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, fleshy, nearly entire, dark glossy 
green, and quite glabrous above; beneath paler yellowish-red, 
and very slightly hairy. The flowers are borne on short, thick, 
axillary peduncles ; they are erect and very large calyx ; nearly 
an inch long, brownish-green, cut almost to the base into five, 
erect, lanceolate segments; the corolla is between three and four 
inches long, bright scarlet, shaggy, with long red hair; tube 
curved; limb, with the upper lip galeate, entire ; the mouth 
very open, the lower lip having the two lateral segments short, 
and appearing rather to belong to the upper than to the lower 
lip ; the intermediate segment is deflexed. — Hot. Mag. 4320. 
LoBELiACEiE. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Siphocampylos glandulosd (Hooker). A handsome species 
of Poll's genus Siphocampylos, from Bogota, of which seeds 
were sent to Sion and to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr 
