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as a greenish- white small-ilowered Pimelea, Loth from New 

 Holland. 



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Heterotoma lohelioides : — from Mr. Sat.ter, Hammersmith. 

 This is called the Mexican Bird-plant, and is very curious- It 

 is a lobeliaceous plant, the stems furnished with obliquely ovate 

 acuminate leaves, and bearing on top a few oddly-shaped red and 

 yellow curved flowers attached near the centre, and looldug some- 

 thing like little birds hanging upside down. It was stated to be 



nearly hardy. 



Lselia gigantea : — from E. Wahner, Esq., Chelmsford. Under 

 this name Mr. Warner sent a tall vigorous-habited plant, bearing 

 four or five large and rather handsome flowers. These flowers 

 Avere six inches across, the sepals and petals being of a ^ale 

 brownish-tinted green, and slightly speckled with purple, and the 

 lip marked at the top of its middle and side lobes with rich 

 violet rose. The plant was stated to bloom twice a-year. 



Aga7e ccerulescens : — from Mr. Bull, Chelsea. A species 

 with narrow, very glaucous, spiny-margined leaves. 



Lomatia elegantissima: — from Mr. Bull. A greenhouse 



shrubby plant, with very elegantly divided foliage. 



Cyclamen sp.: — from Mr. Holland, gardener to R. W. 



Peak, Esq., Spring Grove, Hounslow. A very distinct-looking 

 plant, remarkable for having a small knotty stem an inch or 

 more in length above thq tuber, bearing the leaves and flowers- 

 Tbe leaves were heart-shaped with slightly variegated markings, 

 and the flowers red with shortish acute segments and very fragrant. 

 It had been obtained from tlie Alps of Savoy ; and was stated 

 to be a continuous bloomer, the plant exhibited not having been 

 out of flower for 2 J yeai^. 



Iris cMnensis:— from Mr, Tombs, gardener to General Fox, 

 Addison Road, Kensington. A nicely flowered small plant of a 

 very old-fashioned Iridaceous plant, producing branched panicles 

 of smallish grey-blue fringed flowers. - 



Dendrobinm cncullatnm :— from Mr. Pilbeam, gardener to 



Mr, Commissioner Evans, Golder's Hill, Hampstead. A small- 

 flowered and very poor variety, introduced from Birmah ; very 



that 



above. 



Azaleas :— from Messrs. Vkitch & Son : Hortensia Vervaene, 



a rather pretty variety, with the flowers of average quality, deep 

 salmon-flesh colour, with bars and stripes of deep red, the upper 

 segments spotted with purple. Virginalis, white with green 



