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Columbia and the Straits of Tuca; but it was not introduced to this country 
by him. Within the last five years a few plants were reared in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, from seeds sent to the curator, Mr. S. Murray, by Dr. 
Tolmic, who gathered them at Fort Vancouver ; blossoms were produced by 
these plants for the first time about two years ago, and it has lately been 
flowered by Messrs. Low & Co., of Clapton Nursery. The plant is quite 
hardy. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Cinchonace^e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Musscenda macrophytla. An upright spreading shrub, of a noble aspect; 
the branches amply adorned with a most luxuriant foliage, and terminating 
in fine corymbs of orange blossoms, which have an increasedly rich appear¬ 
ance from the three broad almost snow-white floral leaves that stand around 
them. In its native country, according to Dr.Wallich, it sometimes acquires 
a tendency to ramble, when growing in places where the roots spread amongst 
an over rich soil, and it is not unlikely that plants under cultivation in our 
stoves might do the same, if subjected to a close, much-heated atmosphere. 
At the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, it forms a bush about 3 feet high, of the 
most perfect symmetry. It was found by Dr. Wallicli’s collectors on the 
mountains of Chundragiri and Majarjoon in Nepal.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Rubiacete. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Exostemma longijiorum. A curious, low, stove-shrub, about a foot and a 
half high with lanceolate leaves and singular white flowers, the tube of which 
is very slender, and about 6 inches in length, cylindrical, slightly widening 
upwards, and suddenly expanding into the five segments of the limb, which 
are one third as long as the tube, very narrow, and completely reflexed when 
thoroughly expanded; Lambert gives Guiana as the native country of the 
species ; while De Candolle, on the authority of Richard, says it is indige¬ 
nous to St. Domingo.— Bot. Mag. 4186. 
PASSiFLOREiE. — Monadelphia Pentandria. 
Tacsonia mollissima. A beautiful greenhouse or conservatory climber 
with large rose-coloured flowers somewhat like those of the passion-flower. 
It is a native of the elevated districts of New Grenada, growing at a height 
9000 or 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. Humboldt found it about Santa 
Fe de Bogota, and Mr. W. Lobb in woods near Quito ; from his seeds 
Messrs. Veitch have raised plants which have bloomed throughout the past 
autumn*— Bot. Mag. 4187. 
Leguminose;. — Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Calliandra Tweediei. An elegant shrub belonging to a genus of Mimosece 
distinguished by the great length, and frequently rich red colour, of the 
stamens. Sixty species are enumerated by Mr. Bentham in the London 
Journal of Botany, all inhabitants of the American continent. They have, 
Mr. Bentham observes, the corolla of Alhizzia, the stamens of an Inga, and 
a pod different from that of any other genus, the valves of the pod rolling 
back elastically in a very remarkable manner. The present species is a native 
of Rio Grande and Rio Jaqury in South Brazil, where it was found by the 
indefatigable botanist whose name it bears. It requires the heat of a stove, 
where it produces its lovely crimson flowers in a copious manner. — Bot. 
Mag. 4188. 
Scrophularine-E. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Franciscea acuminata. A handsome Brazilian shrub presented by Mr. Low 
of Clapton to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowers in the stove 
during the months of June and July. It Avas received under the name of 
