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NEW PLANTS. 



Figured in the Botanical Magazine for August. 



.Eugenia BRAsiLiE.vsis. An evergreen stove-shrub, belonging to the family 

 of Myrtles, forming a bush six or eight feet high, with leaves as large as the com- 

 nion Laurel. It has white flowers, produced in the spring; they are of short 

 duration, and but of little beauty. Native country Brazil. 



Dexdrobium Kingianl'm. a greenhouse Orchid, attaining but a few inches 

 in height ; sepals and petals of the flowers purple ; lip white, streaked Avith 

 purple : a very pretty dwarf species. Native of New Holland. 



Hakea clcullata. An evergreen -greenhouse shrub, about four or five feet 

 high, with large spreading leathery concave leaves, and flowers of a red and yel- 

 low colour, produced in copious clusters from the axils of the upper leaves ; its 

 nearest athnity is with H. Victoria : of little interest, unless for large collections. 

 Native country New Holland. 



Campvlobotrys discolor, a dwarf soft- wooded stove-plant, flowering freely 

 when only a few inches high, and remarkable for the livid green or velvety 

 gloss on the upper side of the leaves, and the rich red tints of the branches ; the 

 flowers are produced on short nodding spikes, and are of a deep rich red colour. 

 It was transmitted from Paris to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and is said to 

 be a native of Bahia or 3Iexico. 



Stylidium saxifragoides. a beautiful little species, nearly allied to 

 S. ciliatum ; the flowers are large for the size of the plant, and are of a yellow 

 colour. It was raised by Messrs. Veitch from seeds imported from Swan River. 

 A greenhouse plant, and one that deserves a place in every collection. 



Hypocyrta gracilis, a soft- wooded suff"ruticose stove-plant, with a habit 

 similar to an ^schynanthus ; the flowers are of a creamy white, spotted with 

 orange on the under side of the tube within. It was imported from the Organ 

 Mountains in Brazil, by Messrs. Backhouse of York. 



Coloured Illustrations in Paxton''s Flower-Garden for August. 



Rhododendron cinnamomecm, var. Cunmnghami. A hardy hybrid, resem- 

 bling R. Clivianum, having large heads of white flowers spotted with dark purple. 

 It was raised by Mr. Cunningham of LiverjDool, and is between R. cinnamo- 

 meum and the late white maximum. A very handsome hardy hybrid. 



Bejaria coarctata. a hard-wooded low-growing half-hardy evergreen 

 shrub, of neat habit, with leaves resembling the common Box, and flowers of 

 exquisite beauty ; allied to the Rhododendron ; ditfering principally in the petals 

 beuig separate, not united into a tube; the flowers are produced in close corymbs 

 on the ends of the branches, and are of a crimson colour. It was raised at Sion 

 House, where it has flowered. Native country New Grenada. 



Odontoglossum n.eviuji. a singular little Orchid, with flowers resembling 

 those of Oncidium phymatochilum ; sepals and petals narrow, long, pointed, and 

 wavy ; flowers white, spotted all over with a rich crimson. Introduced by Sir 

 R. Schomburgk from the Andes of New Grenada, and figured from Mr. Loddiges' 

 Nursery, Hackney. 



The woodcuts contain: 1. Bejaria Lindeniana ; 2. B. oestuans ; 3. Passi- 

 flora medustea ; 4. Cuphea cinnabarina, a small branch contaming leaves and 

 flowers of each ; 5. Lisianthus princeps, a flower and leaves ; 6. Parsonsia hete- 

 rophylla, a flowering branch ; 7. Acineta densa ; 8. Campanea grandiflora, a 

 flower of each ; 9. Leaves and flowers of Abutilon insigne ; lU. A spike of 

 flowers of Acropera armeniaca ; 11. Campy lobotrys discolor, noticed al)ove ; 

 12. Columnea aurantiaca, a leaf and flowers; 13. Arctocalyx Endlicherianus, 

 flowers and stem ; 14. Rhododendron jasminiflorum, noticed at p. 202. 



Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. J. Houlston. 



Erratum. — At p. 200, line 7 from bottom, for Luxembourgia speciosa read 

 Luxemburgia ciliosa. 



