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Lindenia (Named after J Linden a Belgian)

(named after J. Linden, a Belgian horticulturist). ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus comprising three species of glabrous or pubescent shrubs, of which two are natives of Mexico and Central America, and the third inhabits the islands of New Caledonia and Fiji. Flowers white, showy, in short terminal cymes, pedicellate. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, linear-lanceolate; stipules intrapetiolar. L. rivalis, the only species yet in cultivation, is a handsome stove evergreen shrub, remarkable in having a corolla tube 5in. long. It thrives in a loam and peat soil. Propagated by ripened cuttings, inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in heat.

L. rivalis (brook-loving).* fl. white, with a red tube; corolla of five oblong lobes 1in. long; corymbs small few-flowered. August. l. lanceolate, 2in. to 3in.long, clustered towards the ends of the shoots. h. 3ft. Mexico, &c., 1856. (B. M. 5258; G. C. n. s., xvi. 180.)