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CoBUBGiA TKiCHROMA, TH-coloured Coburgia {Bot. Mag.^ t. 5686). — Ama- 

 ryllidacoas. A magnificent plant, from the Andes of Pei'u, long known, but lately 

 admirably flowered in the garden of ]\[r. Wilson Saunders. In general characters 

 it agrees nearly with others of the genus. The flowers, however, are pecuhurly 



COTYLEDON VBLUHJTA. 



COBUEGIA TUICHBCilA. 



attractive, the tube being deep red, terminating in a broad, stripe of dove colour on 

 each segment, the interior of the flower being pale pink. 



Ipsea speciosa, Beautiful If sea {Bot. ^lag., t. 5701). — Orchidacese. A beau- 

 tiful terrestrial orchid, a native of Ceylon. The rhizomes are tuberous and hard, 

 as large as a nut or larger ; leaf usually solitary from the rhizome, scape one to 

 two flowered, flowers two and a half iuches in diameter ; golden yellow, with faint 

 red lines on the disk of the lip. 



Hibiscus 3j:aemoilatus, Marbled-floicer eel Hibiscus {Bot. Mag., t. 5702). — ifal- 

 vacese. A fine plant, native of Mexico ; it flowered in the stove at Kew in 

 February, but is described as a greenhouse plant by Lemaire and Planchon. It is 

 a freely-branching shrub, with bright green oblong coidate leaves and smallish 

 flowers, wbich are pleasingly mottled with bright pink, and bear some resemblance 

 to the flowers of Abutilon striatum. 



Dendrobiu.m cumulatum, Clustered-floivered Bendrobe {Bot. Mag., 5703). — 

 A pretty Moulmein species, the flowers of which are produced in subglobose corymbs 

 at the nodes of the rachis ; they are of a clear rosy lilac colour outside, whitish 

 inside, the pedicels deep purple. 



Raphistemma ciliatum. Ciliated JUapJiistemma {Bot. Mag.^ t. 5704). — Ascle- 

 piadea). A pretty delicate climber, with elegant ovate cordate leaves, and corymbs 

 of flowers of a pale greenish colour, borne on long filiform reddisli pedicels. 



Opuntia Rafinesquia>-a, Hardy Indian Fig. — Cactacese. This interesting 

 plant is a native of the valley of the Mississippi, whej-e it inhabits dry sunny plains. 

 It is the hardiest known species in the whole of the cactaceous order, and admirably 

 adapted for cultivation in English gardens, where it will withstand the severest 

 frost. The plant forms a prostrate spreading mass of flat, tliick, rounded, bat-like 

 joints of a dark-green colour, sparingly beset with spines, and in the summer pro- 

 duces numerous bright yellow flowers, which are succeeded by red fleshy fruits, 

 which are of a sweetish, tame, insipid flavour, AYe have to thank Messrs, Hooper, 

 of Central AvenuC; Covent Garden, for the opportunity of figuring this rare and 

 peculiarly interesting plant. We have been supplied by them with growing specimens, 



