new plants. 
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Organ mountains, at an elevation of above five thousand feet 
from the level of the sea. A plant which he brought home alive 
bloomed last season, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. In habit 
the plant approaches F. integrifolia , but difFeis in having nar¬ 
rower leaves, smaller and paler flowers. In its native place the 
plant has a rambling, subscandent habit, the branches being 
sometimes from twelve to twenty feet long. The flowers are 
about an inch in length, the calyx a bright red, petals deep 
purple. From the elevation at which it grows it is probable the 
plant will succeed best in the greenhouse.— Bot. Mag. 
Gynandria Monandria — Orchidacece. 
Comparettia Rosea. An interesting little epiphyte, with but 
few small sessile leaves. The racemes of floweis are diooping, 
and consist of from five to ten rich rose-coloured flowers, of 
great beauty. It is a native of the Spanish Main, from whence 
it was obtained by Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it has flowered 
for the last two years. 
They should always be grown on logs of wood, in preference 
to being kept in pots, because they are of too slender a nature 
to be subjected to the chance of decay, which will exist in the 
latter case. It is also necessary that they be securely fastened 
to the log that supports them, by means of thin wire passed round 
them and the log, in such a manner as not to injure them, which 
is best prevented by placing a little moss beneath it; this moss 
willalso encourage them to develop more and stronger roots. The 
plant blooms for several months during the summer. The genus 
was named after Andreas Comparetti, a professor at Padua, and 
an eminent writer on vegetable physiology.—- Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Polya delpeiia Poly and ria — Loasacece. 
Scyphanthus Elegans. This plant was, it seems, intioduced 
to England from Chili, in the year 1824, and from inattention to 
the preservation of its seeds, or from other causes, was soon after¬ 
wards lost to this country. Among some recent importations, 
however, from the same quarter, it has again made its appear¬ 
ance. The plant is an annual, with the habit of Loasa, usually 
running to the height of three or four feet; its flowers are large, 
of a very lively yellow tint, and are copiously produced. It 
