. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. to blossom most abundantly by the middle of JIay. Till they commence flowering, they are kept in a gentle heat, and were lastseason removed to the greenhouse when they began to bloom, in which situationtheir flowers were fully perfected. This treatment appears very suitable both forthe present and all allied kinds; as they flower too late if kept always in thegreenhouse, and their colours are not so vivid when grown constantly in the stove. Cuttings of the young shoots will most probably root with freedom ; and theyshould be taken
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. to blossom most abundantly by the middle of JIay. Till they commence flowering, they are kept in a gentle heat, and were lastseason removed to the greenhouse when they began to bloom, in which situationtheir flowers were fully perfected. This treatment appears very suitable both forthe present and all allied kinds; as they flower too late if kept always in thegreenhouse, and their colours are not so vivid when grown constantly in the stove. Cuttings of the young shoots will most probably root with freedom ; and theyshould be taken off in the early part of the year, to enable them to form fine rootslicforo the winter. Indeed, the system of propagation usually followed with Dahliasis precisely adapted to this plant. Ipomixa is taken from ips, bindweed, and honioios, like ; because the plants arevery nearly related to Conrolcnlus. The specific appellation has reference, wepresume, to the coluur of the flowers, wliich is considered equal to the widely-celebrated purples of ancient Tyre. I. y/>/i/f>.t/ff}nuf//u ^t4/0<,trryfi^t ^^gf// 75 LOPHOSPERMUM ERUBESCENS; var. SPECTABILE. (saowy REDDISII-FLOWEIIED LOPHOSPERMUM.)CLASS. ORDER. DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMA. NATURAL OHDKR. SCROPHULARIACEiE. Generic Character.—Calyx five-parted; segments large, ovate-lanceolate, with a quincuncial bilabiate, tubular ; tube campanulate, a little curved, contracted above the base, elongated,gibbous, forward at the base, dilated at the throat, and furnished with two rows of interwoven yellowhairs ; upper lip almost erect; lower lip spreading. Stamens four, didynamous. Seeds veiynumerous, ovate-truncate, tubercled, black, fixed to large placenta:.—Dons Gard, and Botany. SPECIFIC Character.—Plant subsbrubby, evergreen. Stems climbing; branches covered with short,jointed, viscid hairs. Leaves partially cordate, imperfectly five-lobcd, downy; lobes mucronate,notched at the margin. Flowers rosy-pink. Va
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