NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE GARDEN PLANTS. 



Geissomerta nttida. Nees and Martins in Endl. and Mart, 

 ft. Bras., 7. 80. D.O. Prodr., XI. 286. 



This handsome shrub, long since found by Salzmann in thick 

 woods near Bahia in Brazil, has lately flowered in Mr. Glendinning's 

 nursery. It is a stove plant, with broad shining dark green leaves, 

 sometimes almost a foot long, and brilliant scarlet flowers two and 

 a quarter inches long, collected in shoi't terminal spikes, in the 

 manner of the well-known Aphelandra cristata. A small specimen 

 was exhibited by Mr. Glendinning at a meeting of the Society on 

 the 1 5th of February last ; and received a certificate of merit. 

 It had been imported under the name of Geissomeria aurantiaca. 



Clematis coriacea. De Cand. System., I. 140; Prodr., I. 5. 



A specimen of this rare plant was received from Messrs. Weeks 

 and Co., of the King's Road Nursery, at the end of last February, 

 at which time it was producing in abundance in the conservatory 

 its large bunches of white flowers. The plant was a male. The 

 leaves are cut in a ternate manner, with heart-shaped dark green 

 bluntly lobed leathery leaflets, marked with a deep purplish 

 brown stain in the middle. The flowers grow in large panicles, 

 and consist of eight whitish narrow oblong sepals, not quite an 

 inch in length, bearing a tuft of yellow stamens in the middle. 

 The species is a native of N. Holland, and one of the best early 

 flowering greenhouse species yet introduced. 



Hypericum obi.ongifouum. Choisy prodr. monogr. Hyperic, 

 p. 42, t. 4. Wallich Catalogue, No. 4810. 



Among the novelties imported by Messrs. Veitch & Co. of 

 Exeter is this handsome species, which is represented to be 

 hardy. Mr. Thomas Lobb found it on open hills at Mofflong, a 

 station in Khasia well known to Indian travellers. Griffith 

 speaks of three species as growing there, one of which (No. 880) 



