NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Hoya bella, (Beautiful Hoya.) 

 The general appearance of this 

 exquisite species is quite un- 

 like that of the familiar wax 

 plant — Hoya carnosa of our 

 green-houses. It is not a climb- 

 er, but has a spreading habit, 

 with small myrtle-like foliage. 

 The accompanying cut, from 

 Van Houtte's Flore des Serves, 

 shows its manner of growth 

 (in miniature ;) the leaves be- 

 ing about an inch long. 



The flowers of this plant, 

 borne in clusters, are pure 

 white with a purplish centre, 

 and are so curiously beautiful 

 that the floricultural magazines 

 have exhausted their epithets 

 of praise in describing it. Sir 

 Wm. Hooker says they " re- 

 semble an amethyst set in 

 frosted silver," and M. Van 

 Houtte says " le blanc presque hyolin de I 

 ses corolles, au centre le violet translucide 

 de ses androzones," Sec. It is a native of 

 Java, and flowers readily and abundantly 

 in a warm green-house. 



Zauscheneria Californica. — A very 

 showy plant lately found growing in the 

 fields near Monterey. It forms a thick 

 bushy mass with its numerous slender 

 branches, and producing a brilliant effect by 

 its multitude of gay orange scarlet flowers, 

 somewhat resembling that of the Gaura. 

 It has been cultivated abroad as a hardy 

 green-house plant, turned out in open 

 borders to flower in summer, and taken up 

 and sheltered in a cold frame or green- 

 house in winter. If, as seems probable, 

 this plant proves hardy with us, it will be a 





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Fig. 103.— Hoya bttta. 



great acquisition to the flower garden. It 

 grows about three feet high, very bushy, 

 with perennial stems, woody at the base ; 

 natural order, O net her acece. 



Fuchsia serratifolia. — This distinct 

 and beautiful Fuschia is better worthy of 

 second trial here than any other, and if it 

 answers to the character given it by Van 

 Houtte of "allowing amateurs of all class- 

 es to enjoy its beauty, because it grows and 

 flowers freely in the open air all summer," 

 it will become a favorite at once in this 

 country, where none of the new Fuschias 

 succeed well except with shelter in sum- 

 mer. It is a native of New Grenada, and 

 the countries bordering the Andes, and a 

 cold frame is sufficient to protect it in 

 winter. The plant is of handsome growth 



