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by Dr. Wallich from the Calcutta Garden, to the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew. 



CoLQUHOUNiA cocciNEA. A tall straggling soft-wooded woolly shrub, suf- 

 ficiently hardy to endure the climate of Britain if planted against a wall : it 

 grows luxuriantly during summer, bearing handsome flowers in the autumn, of a 

 yellow and red colour. It is a native of the mountain -districts of Nepal, where 

 it was detected by Dr. Wallich. 



These five species are figured from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



Coloured Illustrations in Paxton''s Floioer-Garden for May. 



RiioDODEXDRON- RoLLissoNii. A vcry showy species, perfectly hardy, having 

 a compact head of flowers like that of R. arboreum ; the colour is much richer, 

 being of a deep blood-red, with a few dark spots at the bottom of the tube. It 

 is a native of the mountains of Ceyloif". Figured from the garden of Sir Charles 

 Lemon at Carclew, near Penrhyn, in Cornwall. 



BoRONiA TETRANDRA. A pretty dwarf greenhouse shrub, nearly resembling 

 B. pinnata : the flowers are produced single or in pairs from each axil ; they 

 are rather large, and of a pale pink colour. Its native country is New Holland, 

 Figured from the Garden of the Horticultural Society. 



CYPRIPEDIU3I CAUDATUM. A grecnhouse herbaceous plant : this is very sin- 

 gular, and the most extraordinary one of the whole genus ; it grows upwards of 

 three feet high, having flowers of a yellow and brown colour, with a few spots; 

 sepals about six inches long ; petals extended into long linear tails about twenty 

 inches. It is a native of wet marshy places, near the hamlet of Nanegal, in the 

 province of Quito. Figured from the collection of Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park. 



The woodcuts contain : 1. Fuchsia nigricans ; 2. Lagetta lintearia, — a small 

 branch with flowers of each ; 3. leaves and flowers of Drymonia cristata ; 4. a 

 cone and leaves of Abies Jezoensis ; 5. Ilex cornuta ; 6. Ilex microcarpa,— 

 leaves and fruit of each ; 7. flowers of Catasetum Warczewitzii ; 8. a small 

 branch of Boronia spathulata ; 9. Cupressus funebris; 10. Libocedrus tetra- 

 gona ; 11. Libocedrus Chilensis, — a small branch, with fruit of each of these 

 last three, which are all coniferous plants. 



Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. J. Houlston. 



VICTORIA REGIA. 



A NOTICE of this noble aquatic will be found at page 319 of our 

 volume for 1849. It was supplied by a correspondent who paid a 

 hurried visit to Chatsworth, where the plant bloomed for the first 

 time in England in November last. Since that time we have had 

 ample opportunity of observing the habit of the plant for ourselves in 

 the establishment at Syon, where, under the skilful management of 

 Mr. Iveson, gardener to her Grace the Duchess Dowager of North- 

 umberland, it has grown and bloomed most satisfactorily. From it 

 one of the flowers and leaves exhibited at Chiswick on the 1 8th (see 

 report, p. 139) was supplied. It will be far beyond the means of 

 general admirers to cultivate this majestic Water-lily ; but we have 

 little doubt that it will long form an attractive feature in such 

 princely establishments as Chatsworth and Syon. The slate tank 

 in which the plant is now growing at the latter place is 22 feet 

 square ; but our impression is, that a circular one, 40 feet in dia- 

 meter, would not be at all too large for its full development under 

 skilful management. The basis of its successful cultivation appears 

 to be a temperature of both air and water of about 85°, a constant 



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