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PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



NOTICED IN PERIODICALS. 



Armeria vasciculata.— Fascicled Thrift. (Bot. Reg. 21.) Plumbagi- 

 naceaB. Pentandria Pentagynia. (Synonyms, Statice fasciculate, spinifolia.) 

 A native of the warmer parts of Europe, as Corsica, Portugal, &c. Do Caadolle 

 states, " It resembles A.. Vulgaris in mauy respects. From its collar rise three or 

 four stems to about four inches high, each bearing a head of flowers similar to 

 the common Thrift." It is cultivated in the gardens around London, where it 

 forms a pretty bush, looking like a young Pine-fir, and produces numerous heads 

 of pretty pink flowers in August and September. It flourishes in the open 

 border in summer, but requires winter protection. 



Bomarea simplex. — The Simple. (Bot. Mag. 33G3.) Amaryllidacea. 

 Haxandna Monogynia. Three varieties were brought from Cusco by Mr. 

 Pentland, and have bloomed in the open ground in front of the greenhouses in 

 the garden at Spoffbrth. The form of the flower is like a close-flowered Alstrae- 

 meria, which has pendulous blossoms. Each flower is rather more than an inch 

 long. Sepals reddish; petals of a greenish-yellow, spotted with red or purple. 

 The flowers are produced in umbels, three or four in each; they are interesting 

 and pretty. 



Chysis bractescens. — Bracteated. (Bot. Reg. 23.) Orchidacea;, Epi- 

 dendriae. Gynandria Monandria. An Epiphyte from Mexico. It was imported 

 from thence by George Barker, Esq., in whose fine collection it has bloomed. 

 The flowers are produced four or five in each raceme. Petals white, labellum 

 yellow inside and white outside. Each blossom is about two inches across. 



Coburghia coccinea. Scarlet flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3865.) Amaryllidaceae. 

 Triaudria Monogynia. Sent from Lima to Spoffbrth by John Maclean, Esq., 

 who discovered it in one of his excursiuns over the Cordillera, who dug up the 

 two bulbs he transmitted. They were potted in rich alluvial soil, with a little 

 rotten manure, and flourished well, standing out all the summer and autumn of 

 1839, the season being unusually wet and cold, but they appeared to dislike 

 sunshine and line weather. At the approach of winter the leaves perished, when 

 the pots were set dry in the greenhouse. One of the bulbs flowered again at the 

 end of October, soon after the pot had been set dry, from which circumstance 

 it is evident that the plant may be bloomed twice a-year, allowing a season of 

 dry rest between. The flowers are produced in a scape, four in each, pendulous, 

 of a beautiful carmine colour. Each flower is about an inch and a half long. 



Coburghia trichhoma. — Three-coloured. Amaryllidaceae. Hexandtia Mo- 

 nogynia. Sent from Lima to Spofforth, where it has bloomed. The flowers are 

 of a light scarlet, about two inches and a half long. The limbs of the petals 

 are lighter coloured at the edges, with a greeu stripe up the middle of each. 

 Very"pretty. The Coburghias like a strong alluvial and well-manured soil. 

 They are often found wild on inaccessible rocks on the edge of a precipice, and 

 sometimes deeply imbedded in the drift soil. 



Colea vi.oribunda.— The Yellow Rei Rei. (Bot. Reg. 19.) Bignoneacea;. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. Inhabits the forests along the east coast of Mada- 

 gascar. It is a shrub, and by the Malgaches called Rei Rei. It has recently 

 (August last) bloomed, probably the first time in Europe, in the collection of the 

 Duke of Northumberland at Syon. It is a stove plant, of a stately habit, growing 

 seven or eight feet high. The leaves are very noble in appearance, something 

 like the Walnut in form, but far exceeding in size. The flowers are produced 

 on the last vear's wood, just above where the leaves had fallen from ; they are in 

 umbels, of 'a bright yellow-ochre colour with a pale border. Each flower is about, 

 an inch across. Colea, after General Sir G. Lowry Cole,_ Governor of the 

 Mauritius. 



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