272 ORNAMENTAL PLANTS LATELY INTEODUCED INTO ENGLAND. 



13. STENOCARPUS FORSTERI, R. Brown. 



Of this a live plant has been received from Mr. Moore, wlio 

 speaks of it as a small Proteaceous plant, not uncommon on the 

 east coast of New Caledonia. It is a bush with obovate, retuse, 

 flat, veinless, or slightly 3-ribbed leaves tapering to the base, and 

 umbels of small apparently white flowers. It will not prove of 

 any horticultural interest. 



14. GEISSOIS RACEMOSA, Labillardiere. 



This is, probably, the finest stove plant that has been intro- 

 duced for several years. One plant has reached the Garden in 

 good health. Mr. Moore describes it as "a native of the east 

 coast of New Caledonia, in bare, exposed situations. Leaves 

 woolly and slightly serrated when young, entire and glaucous 

 when the plant arrives at a flowering state. It is a small tree, 

 bearing the flowers, which are of a crimson colour, on the old 

 wood in great abundance." 



The dried specimens sent home have opposite trifoliolate leaves 

 of a firm leathery texture, with obovate, very obtuse leaflets, 

 from 6 to 7 inches long and between 3 and 4 inches broad. Be- 

 tween each pair of leaves is a sessile, amplexicaul, smooth, 

 roundish, leathery stipule. The racemes of flowers are from 8 

 to 12 inches long, wfth stalks even longer than themselves, and 

 bearing a pair or two, or an additional whorl, of great glaucous 

 stipules like those belonging to the leaves. The flowers are rich 

 crimson, packed closely like a Combretum, with globular buds, 

 4 leathery ovate sepals, shaggy with hairs in the inside, and 8 

 stamens with crimson filaments nearly an inch long. When in 

 flower these must produce a gorgeous effect, at least equal to 

 that of Combretum grandijlorum. 



From the above slight description, the botanical reader will 

 see that this plant does not quite agree with Labillardiere's 

 figure and description ; but I am unable to say that Mr. Moore's 

 is a distinct species of Geissois, without the opportunity, which 

 I do not possess, of instituting a comparison with authentic 

 specimens. 



I may take this opportunity of adding, that besides the 

 plants just described, and many other rarities, Mr. Moore 

 collected a very curious new Dendrohium* an Epiphyte with 



* D. Mooreanum ; (Dendrocoryne) caule clavato brevi sulcato apice tri- 

 phyllo, foliis ovato-lanceolatis apice oblique emarginatis pedunculo 4-5-floro 

 brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis, labello breviore rhombeo acuto. 

 — Found on the island of Aniteuna, on trees, at an elevation of 1200 feet. 



