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have a warm greenhouse, and be potted in a compost of good mellow 

 loam, peat, and leaf-mould, in equal proportions, draining well, and it 

 likes a fair proportion of head-room. Under these conditions, it will 

 be found a very ornamental object for several months in the year, as 

 the flowers, when expanded, may be kept a long time in perfection, 

 especially if removed to a cooler atmosphere. In watering, care 

 should be taken not to give too much ; the plant being of a rather 

 tender, succulent nature, it would be likely to damp-off. When at 

 rest, it may be kept all but quite dry. A good specimen of it flowered 

 well in a cool greenhouse at Kew. 



J. HOULSTON. 



NEW PLANTS 



FIGURED IN CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS. 



Paxton's Flower-Garden for April has coloured plates of 



The Purple Gesnera (G. purpurea). A hothouse tuberous plant of un- 

 known origin. Apparently a striking variety. 



The Morel Billbergia (B. Morelliana). A Brazilian stove perennial, with 

 variegated leaves and not uninteresting flowers. 



The Master's Cymbid (C. Mastersii). An East Indian terrestrial Orchid, 

 with white blossoms faintly stained with yellow and pink. Rather pretty. 



In Curtis's Botanical Magazine we find : 



The Slender-leaved Sarcanthus (S. filiformis). An Indian Orchid, with 

 small flowers thinly set on a long drooping raceme. 



The Watery Dendrobe (D. aqueum). An Orchid which was figured in 

 the Botanical Register for 1843, and therefore can hardly now be called a rarity. 



The Straavberry-fruited Benthamia (B. fragifera). A very old plant, or 

 rather tree, for it is so in Devon and Cornwall, where it is quite hardy, and is 

 highly ornamental, not less on account of its handsome fruit than its large 

 creamy-white blossoms. 



The Tube-flowered Beschorneria (B. tubiflora). A Mexican Amaryllid 

 of no great beauty. 



The Myrtle-like Hakea (H. myrtoides). A Protead from Swan River. 

 The blossoms are small, and half buried among the leaves. 



The Broom-like Hakea (H. Scoparia). Another Swan River plant, which 

 has been supposed to be a variety of H. sulcata; but to Sir W. Hooker it 

 " appears unquestionably different.'" 



The Garden Companion for last month has two coloured plates, containing : 



Gastrolobiu.m cuneatum. a pretty greenhouse shrub of Australian origin. 



LiNARiA reticulata. A Portuguese herbaceous perennial, with dark-purple 

 flowers. 



SiYLiDiuM ARMERiA. A herbaccous perennial, having the aspect of the 

 grass-leaved Stylewort, and deserving of cultivation. 



Acacia undul.efolia. A small-growing species, suitable for pot-culture. 



This number also contains some pretty woodcuts. 



