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dioecious or monoecious flowers, having singularly revolute sepals, 
dark rusty brown, and downy without, almost black, and glabrous 
within. It is a stove plant, flowering in June and July, and was 
introduced from Java.— Bot. Mag. 4259. 
CYRTANDRACEiE . —Didynamia Angiospermia. 
AEsghinanthus Lobbianus. A very splendid species, imported 
by Mr. Yietcb, nurseryman, of Exeter, through the medium of 
his collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, from Java. It is one of the 
most striking plants in a stove, from its epiphytal character, and 
the strong contrast between the purplish-black calyx and the 
brilliant scarlet of the corolla. It flowers from June to August. 
— Bot. Mag. 4260. 
Malvaceae. —MonadeJphia Polyandria. 
Fugosia hakecefolia. A lovely hibiscoid plant, flowering at an 
early period of growth, bearing copious large blossoms of a rich 
lilac purple, with a deep red purple eye, surrounding the long 
staminal column, and these flowers, contrary to what is usual in 
the hibiscus family, remaining many days expanded. This most 
desirable shrub was introduced by Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, 
being raised by them from Swan River seeds in the spring of 
1846. In the summer the plants flowered profusely.— Bot. Mag. 
4261. 
Melastomace^. —Decandria Monogynia. 
Pleroma elegans. A plant of great beauty, with copious, 
glossy, strong-nerved foliage, and flowers of a large size and pe¬ 
culiarly splendid colour, to the rich velvety purple of whose hue 
no pencil can do justice. It is a native of the Organ mountains, 
growing at an elevation of 4500 feet, where it was first discovered 
by Mr. Gardner, and subsequently by Mr. W. Lobb, who sent it 
to Mr. Vietch. In that gentleman’s nursery it bore its splendid 
blossoms in June, 1846.— Bot. Mag. 4262. 
Apocynace^e. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Adenium Honghel. This curious thing flowered in the garden 
of the Horticultural Society in June last, having been presented 
to that establishment by the Court of Directors of the East India 
Company, with other singular plants from Aden. It forms one 
or two fleshy stems, like those of a Plumieria, on the top of a 
