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FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
December, 1844. 
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DIPLADENIA CRASSINODA. 
WITH AN ENGRAVING. 
The genus Echites is an extensive group of plants, well knonw 
to cultivators as eminently beautiful ornaments of the stove, and 
as such has received attention through some of its members for 
a lengthened period. Lately, however, some additions have 
been made, which promise to out-rival all the species previously 
known, and among them is our present subject. 
This plant is a native of Brazil, where, we believe, it was 
originally discovered by Mr. Gardner, who described it as 
E. crassinoda. It was some time afterwards introduced to this 
country by Mr. Makoy of Liege, who sent it to Mr. Low, 
nurseryman, of Clapton, under the name of E. carrasa, and by 
that name it has become pretty generally known. But on the 
occasion of its blooming an opportunity for examining was pre¬ 
sented, when it was found to belong to a section of the original 
genus, separated by the younger De Candolle, and distinguished 
by him through the name of Dipladenia, a word derived from 
the Greek diplos, double, and aden, a gland, in allusion to the 
glandular appendages to the nodes. 
The plant produced flowers for the first time in England in 
August last at Wallington Lodge, Surrey, the seat of R.G. Loraine, 
Esq., to whose kindness and obliging attention we are indebted 
for our figure. 
The usual culture of Echites is generally known to gardeners, 
and we presume that of Dipladenia must be assimilated to it. 
Mr. Loraine informs us his plant is “ grown in a strong moist 
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