90 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



in the nursery of Messrs. Salter and Wheeler, Bath. When the plant was 

 little more than a month old it produced ahout 500 flowers. It is slightly 

 shrubby, and has a tuberous root. It thrives freely under the commonest culti- 

 vation, and in greenhouse trained round a pillar, or to a frame in a pot, would 

 be highly ornamental, being so profuse a bloomer. The flowers are of a rich 

 purple. Each blossom is about two inches and a half across. 



Garuoquia BETOMcoiDEs. — Betoiiy-like. (Bot. Mag. 3860.) Labiatae. 

 Didynamia Gymnospermia. It flowers very freely, whether grown in the green- 

 house or open border. The stems grow three feet high, terminating in nume- 

 rous cymes of flowers, each forming a spike six or eight inches long. The flowers 

 are of a deep rosy-pink, having blue anthers. Each blossom is about an inch 

 long. 



Salvia Regla. — The Regla Sage. (Bot. Reg. 14.) Labiatae. Diandiia 

 Monogynia. A native of Mexico, and sent to the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety by Mr. Hartweg. It had previously been found by Spanish collectors at 

 Vilalpaudo, and at a place called Regla. Mr. Hartweg describes the plant as a 

 shrub four or five feet high. It has bloomed in the greenhouse and conserva- 

 tor)' of the Horticultural Society, but the flowers were not numerously pro- 

 duced. The stem is somewhat shrubby, brandling. Leaves nearly cordate, on 

 lougish footstalks, notched, about an inch and a half long. The flowers are 

 produced at the ends of the branches, three or four on each, of a fine crimson- 

 red. Each blossom is about two inches and a half long. 



Sobrat.ia sessu.is. — Sessile flowered. (Bot. Reg. 17.) Orchidaceae. Gy. 

 nandria Monandria. It was sent to Messrs. Loddiges by Mr. Schomburgk. 

 Dr. Lindley observes, — •' Some of the finest orchidaceae known are species of 

 this genus, which inhabit Peru, Brazil, Mexico and Demerara. They resemble 

 reeds loaded with large red or white flowers, often fragrant, which always grow 

 from the extremity of the reed among the large plaited grassy leaves. One species, 

 haviug stems from twelve to twenty feet high, is the flower of Paradise of the 

 Peruvians, and hears large flowers, white, without and violet within, having the 

 fragrance of the wallflower. They are said to love dry. sunny, rocky places, 

 where the sun is excessive." The present species appears to have only a solitary 

 flower at the end of each stem, of a bright rose-colour, the lip is darkest, and the 

 lower part of the petals are white, tinged with yellow. 



Sprekema gi.auca. — Glaucous Jacobean Lily. (Bot. Reg. 16.) Amarylli- 

 dacex. Hexandria Monogynia. Sent from Mexico, by Mr. Hartweg, to the 

 London Horticultural Society. It has much the appearance of the old Jacobean 

 Lily, but the flowers arc a little smaller, and of a lighter colour. It is grown in 

 turfy loam, rendered free by a mixture of peat, leaf mould, and sand. In autumn, 

 after the flowers and foliage have decayed, it is either taken out of the pot and 

 placed on a dry shelf, or, if retained in the pot, it is kept dry until spring. It 

 flourishes in a warm greenhouse. Like the Jacobean Lily, it is probable it 

 would flower well against the wall of a hothouse in the open ground, where they 

 often bloom spring and autumn. 



Stevia trachelioides. — Trachelium-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3356.) Compo- 

 site. Syngenesia ^qualis. Seeds of it were sent from Mexico to Edward 

 Leeds, Esq., near Manchester, with whom it has bloomed, both in the green- 

 house and open border. In the latter it attained the height of three feet, and 

 bore a dense large corymb of flowers, of a very deep and rich reddish-purple 

 colour. In the greenhouse the colour is paler. Some of the native specimens 

 have been white. It deserves a- place in every greenhouse or open border. 

 Flowering so profusely renders it very showy. It is a half shrubby, herbaceous 

 plant. 



Acacia biflora. — From Swan River. It is in flower in the Clapton nursery, 

 and blooms during winter and early spring. The flowers are of a deep yellow, 

 and very fragrant. 



Boronia anemon.eeoi.ia. — In b'.oom at Messrs. Loddiges for the first time in 

 this country. The flowers are nearly like those of B. piunata, of a delicate pink. 

 It blooms freely in the greenhouse. 



