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branches being minutely covered with warts ; there are two varieties of it in cul- 

 tivation, which are known by the more or less marking on the lip. 



Grammanthus chlor/Eflora. a very dwarf compact-growing and pretty 

 hardy Cape annual, similar to a Crassula. It should be raised under glass, and 

 planted out towards the end of May, in tufts or patches, near the margin of an 

 open border, where it has a charming appearance during summer ; the orange 

 and yellow flowers remain a long time in perfection, and expand beneath bright 

 sunshine. It has been flowering at Kew throughout the summer. 



Camptose.ma rucicundum. An evergreen stove climber, suitable for a trellis 

 work, or rafters ; it grows freely, especially in good soil, but is rather a shy 

 bloomer. The flowers are in pendulous racemes, on rather long peduncles, 

 similar to those of Laburnum or Urstaria. They are of a deep ruby-red colour. 

 It is a native of Southern Brazil and the adjacent Argentine provinces. In 

 England, and on the continent, this plant has been cultivated under the name 

 of Kennedia splendens. It is at present in flower, trained on a trellis near the 

 glass, in the great Palm-house at Kew. 



Rhododendron Champion je. This is a very handsome species, known only 

 as yet by drawings or dried specimens. It is described as growing seven feet 

 high, and found abundantly among rocks in a ravine at Fort Victoria, Hong 

 Kong ; the flowers are from four to six in an umbel ; white, with a delicate rose 

 colour. 



Galeandra Devoniana. a terrestrial Orchid of great beauty, and one that 

 is rather scarce among collections, although introduced ten or twelve years ago 

 from South America, where, in its native state, it grows in clusters or patches, 

 five or six feet high, and ten or twelve feet in circumference. The sepals and 

 petals are of a darkish purple, green at the margin ; lip very large, projecting, 

 white tipped and streaked with purple ; the above six plants are figured in the 

 Botanical Magazine for October. 



Tacsonia mollissima. a plant of this species, planted in the open border, 

 and trained against an east wall at Kew, is at present growing very vigorously, 

 and has upon it numerous flowers ; whether it will withstand the rigour of the 

 forthcoming winter remains to be proved, but we hardly suspect it will. 



Erythrina laurifolia. a very fine plant of this species is now in flower 

 at Kew, and has been since June. The early shoots having blossomed through 

 the summer, some of them have legumes, with nearly ripe seed on them, and the 

 lateral ones are covered with their beautiful deep coral-coloured flowers. 



SiPHOCAMPYLUS AMCENUS. A rather pretty flowering stove-plant, with oblong 

 lanceolate leaves, and a terminal many-flowered raceme of small rather straight 

 orange-red flowers. This plant has been introduced to English collections from 

 the nursery of Van Houtte, Ghent, and is a native of Central America. 



Delphinium speciosum, var. Wheeleri. A magnificent flowering hardy 

 herbaceous plant, of a stiff habit, growing about three and a half feet high, with 

 erect branching stems ; the principal one terminating in a densely-spiked raceme, 

 a foot or more long ; the lateral branches bear looser racemes, all of a dark brown 

 and bright blue. This is one of the best of the tribe, and Avill no doubt be an 

 acquisition. 



Ipom(ea oblongata, a trailing herbaceous half hardy or greenhouse species, 

 having large fleshy roots, and numerous hairy stems, five or six feet long, with 

 large bell-shaped flowers of a purplish rose colour, one or two produced at every 

 leaf-joint. It is said to be a fiee-flowering plant, producing flowers from May 

 to September, many opening daily. It has been introduced to English collections 

 from the valley of the Buftalo river, near King William's town, in British Kaf- 

 fraria. These last three plants are figured in the Magazine of Botany for October. 



Vaccinium Rollissoni. a neat -looking evergreen half-hardy shrub, about 

 two feet high, having glossy box-like leaves, and terminal racemes, nearly sessile, 

 of four to six drooping flowers of a rich scarlet. This species will form a neat 

 bush for open borders during summer ; but it is probably not quite hardy, unless 

 in a very sheltered situation. It is a native of Java, where it was found growing 

 on the lava of the "silent volcanoes," the highest land in the island. It was 

 imported by Alessrs. Rollisson. 



PoTENTiLLA AMBIGDA is a rather pretty free-growing species of suffruticose 

 habit, which rapidly increases by its stoloniferous roots, and soon forms a large 



