42 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Monodelphia Triandria. A native of Mexico, discovered by Mr. Hartweg, a col- 

 lector in the employ of the London Horticultural Society, and bloomed in the 

 garden at Chiswick, and since with Mr. Groom of Walworth, who possesses an- 

 other kind, which he supposes to be only a variety, his being raised from seeds. 

 The root is a bulb. The flower stem rises to the height of three feet, and the 

 plant in its appearance somewhat like the Tigridia pavouia, and it requires in 

 culture a similar treatment to it. The flowers are enclosed in a two-valved spathe, 

 terminal, and drooping. On the flower opening, its petals immediately become 

 reflexed, similar to a Dog's-tooth Violet. Each of the petals is ;ibout an inch 

 long, of a fine rich red colour, and not a flame colour, as its specific name im- 

 plies. The other kind Mr. Groom possesses has dark chocolate stripes upon 

 the ground colour. It thrives well in a greenhouse or cold frame, but it is pro- 

 bable that plants will even succeed well in the open border with a slight winter 

 protection. It requires to be taken up when the leaves decay, and be replanted 

 early in November. A compost of loam and sandy peat suits it well. 



Sida picta. — Painted-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3840.) This plant is generally 

 known by the name of Abutilon striata, but SirWm. Hooker designates it as above. 

 Hitherto Dr. Hooker observes that it has been treated as a greenhouse plant, but 

 in all probability will succeed in the open air, especially in the summer months. 

 Its gaily painted drooping flowers, orange- yellow striped and marked with red, 

 render it highly worthy a place in every collection. 



Pauxownia imperialis. — Foxglove Tree. This deciduous plant is a native of 

 Japan, where it grows thirty or forty feet high, with a trunk nefcr a yard in 

 diameter. The leaves are large oval. Flowers are produced in panicles, like 

 the Horse Chesnut. Each flower is about two inches long, tubular-campanulate, 

 of a pale blue colour, slightly spotted inside. A plant has been growing 

 vigorously in the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, for several years, and is now 

 twelve feet high, and proves to be quite hardy. Mons. Neumann, the principal 

 gardeDer, states that some of the lower leaves are fifteen inches broad and 

 eighteen long, and he styles it the king of hardy trees. It will be a valuable 

 addition to the pleasure ground, lawn, &c. There are some specimens of it in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 



Poinsettia pui.cherrima lutea. A plant of the yellow flowered variety is 

 in bloom at Messrs. Henderson's nurserv, London ; and a large specimen of that 

 truly beautiful flowering plant the Luculia gratissima, with eight fine 

 hydrangea like heads of pretty pink, fragrant flowers. Both these plants 

 deserve a place in every collection of stove plants, especially the latter. 



.ffiscHYNANTHus GRANDiFLoRcs. — Large flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3843.) Cyr- 

 tandraceae. Didynamia Angiospermia. A stove plant, native of Nepal, intro- 

 duced into this country in 1837, but not as extensively cultivated as it merits. 

 The plant grows from two to three feet high ; it is an epiphyte, which produces 

 its flowers at the extremity of the shoots, in clusters of from twenty to thirty in 

 each cluster, the umbels being drooping. Each flower is tubular, about two and 

 a half inches long, and three-quarters across, of a deep orange-scarlet colour. 

 It is a profuse bloomer, and flourishes the best when grown in broken pots and 

 chopped moss. jEschynanihus, from uischos, modesty ; and anlhos, a flower. 



Angelonia cornigera. — Horn-bearing. (Bot. Mag. 3848.) Scrophularinr*. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. Synonym A. ciliata. A native of Brazil, discovered 

 by Mr. Gardner in 1839, growing in sandy places. It has bloomed in the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is an annual, growing about a foot high, branched 

 from the base. The flowers are produced in profusion, axillary, solitary, 

 but so extended is each shoot as to appear in long racemes. Each flower is on 

 a longish footstalk, and is about three-quarters of an inch across, of a rich 

 purple colour. 



Brunonia australis. — Southern. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 2G7.) Brunoniacese. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. A native of New Holland, and blooms very freely 

 when grown in an airy greenhouse, where we saw it plentifully at the Clapton 

 Nursery. The plant is an herbaceous perennial. The flower stems rise about 

 a foot high, crowned with a solitary head of flowers, of a bright blue colour. It 





