202 THE FLORIST. 



NEW PLANTS. 



Figured in the Botanical Magazine for July. 



EcHiNorsis CRisTATA, var. PURPUREA. A very showy flowering plant, be- 

 longing to the Cactus tribe ; it is nearly globular, depressed, about seven inches 

 in diameter, and armed with stout spines ; the flowers are large, funnel-shaped, 

 arising from near the summit, and are about six inches long in the tube ; petals 

 rose-coloured. 



LuvuNGA SCANDENS. Au evergreen stove-shrub belonging to the Orange 

 family, having straggling branches requiring support either on a pillar or against 

 a wall ; it has white fleshy flowers produced from the axils of the leaves in dense 

 short racemes, much resembling those of the Orange, and not less fragrant. It is 

 a native of Silhet and Chittagong, and was introduced by Dr. Wallich. These 

 two are figured from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



Calceolaria Pavonii. An herbaceous succulent rather coarse - growing 

 species, with large opposite leaves. It grows freely in a border during summer, 

 but requires protection in winter ; it may prove interesting as an ornamental 

 greenhouse plant from its very distinct character: flowers large and yellow. A 

 native of the Andes of Peru. It is figured from Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Exeter. 



Ixora salicifolia (Willow-leaved Ixora). A handsome stove-shrub, grow- 

 ing about two or three feet high, with rather closely placed opposite leaves ; it has 

 large corymbs of flowers at the ends of the branches, and when fully expanded 

 they form a hemispherical head of deep orange ; it is very showy, and a free 

 bloomer, producing flowers when only six inches high. It was detected by Mr. 

 T. Lobb on Mount Seribu, in Java, and transmitted to Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 



Rhododendron jasminiflorum (Jasmine-flowered Rhododendron). A very 

 distinct species, growing about two feet high, and having flowers with a long 

 straight tube, white with a deep pink eye. It was discovered by Mr. T. Lobb on 

 Mount Ophir, in Malacca, and we fear will not be hardy. It is the property of 

 Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 



Coloured Illustrations in Paxton''s Floiver-Garden for July. 



Amygdalus persica, FLORE sEMiPLENO. A deciduous hardy tree, of the 

 peach kind, having large and beautiful semidouble flowers of a crimson colour ; 

 and a variety with semidouble white blossoms. Both sorts have flowered in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society. They are hardy, and very ornamental, 

 having precisely the habit of the common peach-tree, except that they are more 

 excitable, in which respect they more nearly approach the almond, consequently 

 they are better adapted for forcing or flowering under a slight protection than in 

 the open air, where the beauty of their flowers is impaired by cold and wet. 

 They are natives of China. Figured from the garden of the Horticultural Society. 



Begonia dipetala. An erect -growing rather pretty herbaceous stove 

 species, having flowers in loose thin pendulous cymes of a light rose-colour. 

 It is a native of Bombay, and has been known to cultivators for many years. 



Odontoglossum Cervantesii (Rose-coloured variety). A beautiful little 

 Orchid resembling O. membranaceum, and one of the rarest of its group. It 

 was first introduced about 1839 to the late iVIr. Barker's collection at Spring- 

 field, Birmingham, from mountains in the west of Mexico. 



The woodcuts contain : 1. the apex of a flowering branch of Roupalia 

 grata; 2. Warrea bidentata ; 3. W. Wailesiana; 4. W. discolor, a magnified 

 lip of each ; 5. Ceanothus papillosus ; 6. C. rigidus, a small flowering sprig of 

 each ; 7. Dipteracanthus spectabilis (noticed at p. 74 of the present year) ; 

 8. Thiebaudia scabriuscula ; 9. Gynoxys fragrans (noticed at page 152), a 

 small flowering branch of each ; 10. Hoya coriacea ; 11. H. purpureo-fusca, an 

 umbel of flowers, with leaves of each (these two Hoyas are noticed at p. 177 of 

 the Florist) ; 12. Fuchsia venusta, a leaf and flowers ; 13. a flowering branch of 

 Berberis Wallichiana. 



Royal Botanic Gardens^ Kew. J. Houlston. 



Erratum.— P. 178, 1. 10 from bottom,/or " Funereal" read'' Funebral." 



