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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS, 
Malvaceae. —Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Lopimia malacophylla (Marties). Sent from New Grenada by 
Mr. Purdie, to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowers freely 
during the winter and spring months, and is far from being 
unornamental. It is a shrub from three to five feet high in our 
stove, with rounded, downy, herbaceous branches, and rather 
ample caudate, acute leaves, also downy on both sides ; the flowers 
are produced on axillary peduncles, solitary, or two or three 
together; they are of five, long, cuneato-spathulate, oblique 
petals, rose-red, streaked with white in their lower half; the 
limb patent.— Bot. May. 4365. 
Acanthace &.-—T)idynamia Angiospermia. 
Strobilanthes lactatus (Hooker). Received from the nursery 
of Mr. Low, of Clapton, under the name of Ruellia grandis, which 
seems to be nowhere published, and by no means characteristic 
of the plant. It is in all probability a native of the East Indies, 
and has the merit of enlivening the stove with its pretty pale 
purplish-white blossoms during the dead months of winter. Its 
flowers individually a good deal resemble those of S. Sabinianus ; 
but the inflorescence is totally different, and the leaves are prettily 
variegated with white down the centre, looking as if milk had 
been accidentally spilled upon them.— Bot. Mag. 4366. 
Asclepiadacee. — Bentandria Bigynia. 
Oxypetalum solanoides (Hooker). A pretty greenhouse plant, 
native of Rio de la Plata and South Brazil, with much the habit 
of 0 . cceruleum ; but the flowers are not quite so large, nor are 
they of that bright tint which gives the charm to that favorite 
shrub. The present species produces its dull purplish-red 
blossoms during the summer months.— Bot. Mag. 4367. 
Aristolochiacee. —Gynandria Hexandria. 
Aristolochia grandiflora. This plant has been previously 
described in Bot. Beg. 1842-60, under the name of A. gig as. 
Sir W. J. Hooker, in Bot. Mag. 4368-69, restores the specific 
term grandiflora , originally adopted by Swartz and Sprengel. 
At the same time other synonymes are mentioned, as A. cordifolia 
