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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
the naked portion of the spadix, are a few abortive pistils. The 
leaf appears after the flower, and is borne upon a long, terete 
petiole, peltate and deeply cut into five or six ovato-lanceolate, 
acuminate segments, each closely penninerved; and there is a 
vein or nerve running along within the margin.— Bot. Mag. 4388. 
Boraginace,®. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Lithospermum canescens (Lehmann). Batschia and Litho¬ 
spermum are now generally considered to be one and the same 
genus. The present species is peculiar to North America, but 
has rather an extensive range, from Canada and the Saskatchawan, 
in the north, to Carolina, in the south. Although a perfectly 
hardy plant, and well worthy of a place in every garden, it has 
only lately been introduced by Edward Leeds, Esq., of Manchester, 
through Mr. Goldie. It has erect, herbaceous stems, a span or 
more long, simple or only slightly branched above, which spring 
from the crown of the root. The leaves are alternate, sessile, 
oblong lanceolate, canescent, with closely pressed, compact hairs; 
bracteas or floral leaves resembling them. Flowers in leafy, 
secund racemes. The corolla is large (for the genus), golden 
coloured ; tube infundibuliform'; limb of five spreading, rounded 
segments.— Bot. Mag. 4389. 
On a dry, sunny bank, where few other plants will thrive, this 
pretty perennial will flourish, and in rockwork makes a very good 
appearance. That of Mr. Leeds sent up seventeen stems, and 
exhibited a fine show of flowers.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Gesneriace/e.— Bidynamia Gymnospermia. 
Episcia bicolor (Hooker). A very pretty gesneriaceous plant, 
raised from seeds sent from New Grenada by our collector, Mr. 
Pur die. It blooms in the stove, and continues throwing up 
flowers for several weeks in succession, many growing together 
among the ample dark foliage, and of white colour, bordered 
with purple. It is a pereqnial, herbaceous, and somewhat 
creeping, as well as procumbent plant, with very short, hairy 
stems ; its leaves are large, hairy, between ovate and cordate, 
acute, with large serratures all round, penninerved and coarsely 
reticulated. Peduncles from the axils of the leaves, simple or 
bi-trifid and bracheated, slender, hairy, or rather hispid. Flowers 
