JANUARY. 9 



succulent plants related to Stapelia. It has quadrangular toothed stems, and 

 near their apices hear umbels of small star-shaped flowers, on short stalks ; they 

 are pale yellow transversely banded with dingy purple. It is a greenhouse 

 perennial. Algeria. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Aralia Sxeboldii. A fine greenhouse shrub, with large bright green glossy 

 leaves. Japan. Messrs. Veitch Sc Son. 



Azalea indica, var. Alexander II. (Flore des Serres, t. 1243.) A 

 beautiful novel variety, having large white wavy flowers, as in crispiflora, marked 

 with few broad streaks of bright red. A Belgian variety. M. Van Houtte. 



Azalea indica, var. Distinction. (Florist, 1. 143.) A beautiful vigorous- 

 growing variety of excellent properties, said to have been raised from Barclayana, 

 fertilised with Criterion ; flowers rich salmon, margined irregularly with white, 

 and occasionally striped with carmine, the upper segments densely spotted with 

 •crimson. A garden variety. Messrs. Ivery § Son. 



Azalea indica, var. Due de Brabant. (Illust. Bouq. t. 23.) Flowers 

 large, of a light rosy salmon, with rich crimson spots on all the lobes, and a tuft 

 of petaloid stamens in the centre. A Belgian variety. Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 $ Son. 



Azalea indica, var. Etoile de Gand. (Illust. Bouq. t. 23.) Flowers 

 large, round lobed, white, with a delicate rose coloured markiD the centre of each 

 lobe, forming an elegant star-like centre, and having lines of carmine spots on 

 the upper segments. A Belgian variety. 3Iessrs. E. G. Henderson <Sf Son. 



Azalea indica, var. Leopold I. (Illust. Bouq. t. 23.) A Belgian variety, 

 flowers large, rich rose colour, the upper lobe spotted with crimson ; a tuft of 

 petaloid stamens in the centre. Messrs. E. G. Henderson § Son. 



Azalea indica, var. Perfection. (Florist, t. 143.) A robust-habited 

 variety, with large flowers of excellent form, and of a lively rose colour, thickly 

 spotted on the upper segments. A garden variety. Mr. Frost. 



Azalea indica, var. Reine des Panachees. (Illust. Bouq. t. 23.) Flowers 

 large, white, striped and spotted all over with rose colour. A Belgian variety. 

 Messrs. E. G. Henderson £c Son. 



Azalea ovata. (Bot. Mag. t. 5064.) A pretty and scarce half hardy dwarf 

 shrub, with small ovate leaves, and comparatively large and abundant pale 

 purple flowers. North of China. Introduced some years since by the Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



Barklata syring^flora. A fine greenhouse shrub, with orange yellow 

 flowers in the way of a Persian Lilac, only of an orange yellow colour. More- 

 ton Bay. Messrs. Low $■ Son. 



Callicarpa purpurea. A hardy greenhouse shrub, with sharply serrated 

 leaves, in the axils of which appear bunches of insignificant flowers succeeded by 

 small shiny purple berries resembling glass beads, which are very ornamental, 

 and remain all the winter on the plant. China. Mr. Standtsh. 



Camellia japonica, var. Cup of Beauty. (Florist, t. 141.) A handsome 

 Chinese variety, with something the character of the old double white ; pure 

 ground colour, with an occasional streak of pink, the centre well filled. Mr. 

 Glend'inning. 



Camellia japonica, var. Princess Frederick William. (Florist, t. 139.) 

 A very handsome variety of the striped class, with imbricated close flowers ; the 

 ground colour blush, with stripes and varied markings of pale rose colour, in 

 the way of Alberti or Prince Albert. China. Mr. Glendinning. 



Camellia japonica, var. Vergine di Colle Beati. (Flore des Serres, 

 t. 1245.) A curious white imbricated variety, in which the petals are ranged 

 in seven curving or spiral lines, instead of alternating throughout in the usual 

 way. An Italian variety. 



Camellia ros.efloha (Bot. Mag. t. 5044.) A single flowered Camellia, 

 the flowers of a rose pink, and small ; cultivated as C. euryoides (incorrectly) 

 for many years at Kew Botanic Garden. 



Campanula strigosa. (Bot. Mag. t. 5068.) A dwarf hairy annual, 

 4-5 inches high, scarcely branched, with oblong-ovate leaves, and largish bell- 

 shaped deep violet blue flowers, with a yellowish white tuber. Syria. Kew 

 Botanic Garden. 



Clianthus Dampieri. (Bot. Mag. t. 5051.) A splendid flowered green- 



