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with veins, prominent on the outside, where it is cream-coloured, 
mottled with pale purple. Within it is white, or nearly so, but 
the veins are purple and areolae sprinkled with purple. The 
margin is waved, and is split down at the anterior edge; the apex 
is tipped with an apiculus or short tail scarcely an inch long. 
Within, towards the mouth of the tube, the colour is much 
deeper, and of a more uniform purple. It is in reality a very 
striking and handsome flower, and rendered more worthy of cul¬ 
tivation in consequence of the absence of the horrid stench which 
will prevent the much larger blossoms of A. gigas from ever be¬ 
coming favorite inmates of our stoves. According to Martius its 
native country is in the province of Bahia, Brazil. It was flowered 
in April, 1845, by Messrs. Lucombe, Price, and Co. of Exeter.— 
Bot. Mag. 4221. 
Aroide^e. Moncecia Polyandr'ia. 
AriopsisPeltata. An extremely curious new genus of Aroideae, 
discovered by J. S. Law, Esq., in Tanna, district of Bombay, and 
of which tubers were kindly sent by him to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, where they flowered in August, 1845. It is one of the 
best marked and smallest of any genus of the order, and reminds 
one more of the growth of a Cyclamen than of an Aroideous plant. 
From under the ^side of and all round a cluster of brown tuber¬ 
like root-stocks, half buried in the earth, spring the petioles, 
which then curve upwards and bear the small delicate peltate 
leaf. From the slightly sheathing bases of these petioles arise 
one or two scapes, little more than half the length of the petiole, 
terminated by a slightly drooping, cymbiform, carinate, purple- 
brown, acute spatha. The lower part of the spadix is incorpo¬ 
rated with the deep purple-coloured spathe and bears the green 
ovaries. The upper is purple, club-shaped, and substipitate, and 
bears the yellow sessile anthers arranged in a circle within the 
cup-shaped cavities. The whole spadix is shorter than the spatha. 
The free portion of the spadix then withers, and the ovaries become 
greatly enlarged, when the weight occasions the scapes to bend 
down towards the ground, sometimes becoming more or less 
spiral.— Bot. Mag. 4222. 
Rubiace^e. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
Bouvardia longijlora. Bouvardia is a Mexican genus of Ru- 
