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NEW PLANTS. 



CYl'ELLA CT-liULEA, 



YPELLA Ca-ERULEA, Blae-Jloivertd Ci/pella {Bot. Mag. t. 5612).— 

 Iridse. A superb stove irid, native of the Brazils, long known in oiir 

 gardens, and on account of its fine flowers and bold sword -like foliage, 

 deserving a permanent place 

 in our gardens. The leaves 



aretlireeto six feet long, the flowers vary 



in size, some of thtm being four inches 



in diameter, the blade blue, claw yellow- 

 ish, with transverse brown bands. 



Helianthemum ocvmoides, Basil- 



like Bock Rose {Bot. Mag. t. 5621).— 



Cistineae. A beautiful hardy rock or sun 



rose, native of Spain and Portugal, where 



it inhabits dry, rocky hills. "The beau- 

 tiful genus to which this belongs," says 



Dr. J. D. Hooker," was once a favourite 



in cultivation, but has of late given way 



before the rage for " bedding-oiit plants," 



which now monopolize the once varied 



borders of English gardens. No less than 



seventy species of Heliardhsmum, besides 



varieties, are figured in Sweet's valuable 



work on the cultivated plants of the order, 



published in 1830, and of these a great 



number are nov/ no longer to be found in 



England. It is to be hoped that the time 



will yet come when the taste for really beau- 

 tiful and interesting plants will reign again, 



and replace the present passion for a blaze of gaudy odours along our garden walks ! 



Grias caulifloka, Anchorg Bear 

 {Bot. Mag. t. 5622).— Myrtacea3. This is a 

 plant of considerable interest in a horticul- 

 tural, and perhaps also in an economic, 

 point of view. In the first place, it is one 

 of the most striking and easily managed ot 

 all those stately," palm-like, tropical, dico- 

 tyledonous trees that are so greatly ad- 

 mired, and are essential for the decoration 

 of every stove ; and in the next place, as 

 the Anchovy Pear, it has long been, accord- 

 ing to some authorities, in esteem as a West 

 Indian fruit. The latter is a large, brown, 

 fleshy drupe, like that of the mammel- 

 apple, which was, according to Sloanc, 

 pickled and eaten by the Spaniards in lieu 

 of mangoes, and Avas sent as a great rarity 

 to Spain. Browne, in his " Natural His- 

 tory of Jamaica," says nothing of the value 

 of the fruit, but M'Fi.yden, who represents 

 tiie English taste, says, *'I cannot learn 

 that the fruit is ever collected fur use, or 

 brought to the market." Grias caulijiora 

 is a tree twenty to fifty feet high. It is 

 found throughout the Spanish main, grow- 

 ing in clumps or thickets, and its flowers 

 are deliciously sweet-scented. The leaves 

 ar3 crowded at the ends of the branches, 

 three to four feet long, ten inches broad, 



the flowers are on short, stout, branching peduncles, produced on the trunk far 



below the leaves. Tliey are two inches broad, pale yellow, veiy fragrant. 



GEIAS CAULIVLOltA. 



a, the complete plant ; b, portion of the 

 btem, showing how the flowers are pro- 

 duced. 



