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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
in my Herbarium among the plants of Mrs. General Walker, 
and Mr. Gardner detected it in rocks near the summit of the 
Hantane range, and rightly referred it to the genus Chirita , 
attaching to it the name of the original finder. The corolla is 
nearly four inches long from the base to the extremity of the 
lower lip ; the tube ventricose, curved a little upwards, and sub- 
campanulate ; the mouth ample; limb two lipped, spreading, of 
five, subequal, rounded lobes (sometimes only four) ; the upper 
lip two-, the lower three-lobed. The outside of the corolla is 
silky, pale purple ; limb deeper purple, paler within the throat, 
and with a broad, yellow, abrupt line on the lower side of the 
tube.— Bot. Mag. 4405. 
Passiflore^e. —Monadelphia Pentandria . 
Passiflora amabilis. All that we can state with certainty of 
the history of this Passion-flower is, that it was received at the 
Royal Gardens from Mr. M f Koy, of Liege/under the name here 
given. It is very unlike any species yet figured or described, as 
far as we can learn; and it may possibly be a hybrid, one of 
whose parents may be P. alata, judging from the peculiarities 
of the sepals and petals, while the involucre more resembles 
that of P. quadrangularis; but the slender, terete stem is at 
variance with both. The plant is a climber, of not luxuriant 
growth. The calyx and petals are alike, oblong, obtuse, bright 
brick-red within, greenish externally. The filamentous crown is 
white, in four series. It flowers in the stove in May.— -Bot. 
Mag. 4406. 
Ran UN c ulacILe . — Polyandria Pen tag ynia. 
Aquilegia leptoceras (Nuttall). Raised in the Royal Gardens 
from seeds, collected by Mr. Burke, in the Snake country of the 
Rocky Mountains; abundant about Fort Hall. James, its ori¬ 
ginal discoverer, detected it between the head waters of the 
branch of the Platte, called Defile Creek, and those of the northern 
tributaries of the Arkansas ; and Mr. Tolmie received specimens 
from a hunter, collected between Henry’s and Fish Rivers. All 
these localities are in elevated regions of the Rocky Mountains, 
in about lat. 40°, and the species seems to be very local. Re¬ 
markable as it is for the large size of the flowers, and the un- 
