CUTIIEA PLATYCEN'TRA.

BEOAD-SrUBRED CUPHEA.

Class*

DODECAND1UA.

Order,

MONOG^NIA.

Natural Order.LYTHIIACEjE.

Native of

Height.

Flowers Duration.

Introduced

Mexico .

15 indies.

June to Oct. Perennial.

in 1815.

No. 1145.

The Greek curaos, a curve, is the foundation oftho present generic name; the crooked capsule ofthe plant being hereby alluded to.

Although this very desirable species of Cupliealias long been known to botanists, the living planthas hut lately been obtained. Its possession now,too, is more a circumstance of accident than design,it having sprung up in the garden of J. Anderson,Esq., of the Holme, Regent’s Park, amongst earththat had been attached to fresh-imported plantsfrom Mexico . It is a plant that certainly will con-tinue to be a favourite, not alone for its neatness,and beauty—it must not be called splendour, butfor the different purposes to which it is so welladapted. Its growth is low and compact, and itsgay little Uowers become regularly distributed overit, partly from their permanence, and partly fromthe habit of tho plant; continuing thus in beautyfrom month to month, with a duration wo are al-most induced to say unequalled by any plant wehave possessed. Being unintrusivo in growth, itmay be commonly mixed with other plants in theborders during summer, where its colour will form

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