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PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Berberis coriaria. — The Tanner's Barberry. (Bot. Reg. 46.) Berberaceae. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. Another of the pretty Nepal Barberries, all of which 

 are very neat and ornamental hardy shrubs. The present species is a robust 

 evergreen, with lanceolate leaves, in clusters of six or eight, about an inch long. 

 The flowers are yellow, and produced in racemes, about two inches long. The 

 berries are of a deep red colour. 



Bignonia speciosa.— Showy- flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3888.) Bignoniaceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. Discovered by Mr. Tweedie, at Buenos Ayres, and 

 has bloomed in the garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, in the plant- 

 stove, last April and May. The stem is woody, grows long, rather straggling. 

 The leaves are of a bright green, each about three inches long. The tioweis, 

 large and handsome, erect, and terminal, it appears are generally produced in 

 pairs. The tube of each flower is about three inches, and two across the mouth 

 or limb. The tubular partis yellowish on the outside, of a brighter yellow 

 within, streaked and veined with lilac. It is a very ornamental addition to the 

 hothouse climbing plants. 



Chorozema spectabile.— Showy. (Bot. Reg. 45.) Leguminosae. Decan- 

 dria Monogynia. A greenhouse twining plant, a native of Swan River. The 

 leaves are oblong-lanceolate, about two inches long. The flowers are produced 

 in long drooping racemes, of a deep orange colour, tinged near the centre with 

 deep red. It blooms abundantly in the winter. The plant is of easy cultiva- 

 tion, growing freely in a compost of leaf soil and peat, with the addition of a 

 little loam and sand. It produces seeds abundantly, and is readily increased 

 either by seed, or cuttings inserted in silver sand. It has bloomed in the select 

 collection of R. Mangles, Esq., and in that of the London Horticultural Society. 



Convolvulus scoparius. — Canary Rosewood. (Bot. Reg. 43.) Convolvu- 

 laceae. Pentandria Digynia. From the Canary Islands, and has bloomed with 

 Mr. Young, nurseryman, Milford, near Godalming. It is an erect, branching, 

 half-shrubby plant, requiring to be kept in the greenhouse in winter, and then 

 rather dry and dormant. The flowers are produced numerously ; each about half 

 an inch across, white, with a tinge of pink at the under side. 



Oncidium monoceras — One-horned. (Bot. Mag. 3890.) Orchideac. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. From Rio Janeiro, and has bloomed in the Woburn col- 

 lection. The flowers are produced very profusely in a branching panicle. Each 

 flower is about three-quarters of an inch across. Petals yellow, blotched with 

 rust-colour. Lip yellow, blotched with red in the disk. Column green. 



Oxai.is vruticosa. — The Shrubby Wood Sorrel. (Bot. Reg. 41.) Oxalida- 

 ceae. Decandria Pentagynia. Found in the woods of Brazil. It requires to 

 be grown in a temperature somewhat higher than a greenhouse, usually grown 

 in a moist stove. It has bloomed in the collection at Syon Gardens. The 

 plant is what is termed half-shrubby, branching. The leaves are broadly lan- 

 ceolate, somewhat like a short leaf of the common Spurge Laurel. The flowers 

 are produced rather densely, among the foliage, towards the ends of the shoots. 

 Each flower is a little more than a quarter of an inch across, yellow; the calyx 

 is red. 



Pernbttta Angusti folia. — Narrow-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3889.) Ericineae. 

 Decandria Monogynia. A native of Vahlivia, shrubby, branching. Leaves 

 narrow, lanceolate. The flowers are drooping, something like those of an 

 Arbutus, while, each about a quarter of an inch across : they are produced singly 

 from the axils of the leaves, at the ends of the shoots rather numerously. 



Physiantiius auuicomus. — Golden-haired. (Bot. Mag. 3891.) Asclepideae. 

 Pentandria Digynia. A native of Ceara in Brazil. It has bloomed in the gar- 

 den of — Blackburn, Esq., Hales, near Liverpool) in the hot-house, and is a 

 rapid climber, extending the entire length of the house, and covered witli 

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