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PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



jEschynanthus gra.ndifi.orus.— Large-flowered Blushwort. (Bot. Reg. 49.) 

 Cyrtandraceae. Didynamia Angiospermia. A stove-plant of considerable beauty, 

 and of the easiest culture. It only requires a damp stove, and to be secured to 

 a log of wood, to which it quickly attaches its ivy-like roots. It soon becomes a 

 pendulous, bushy, branching plant ; and each branch is terminated by a cluster 

 of from ten to fifteen deep orange and scarlet flowers. It blooms nearly every 

 period of the year. The plant is to be procured of most nurserymen, at a cheap 

 rate, and deserves a place in every hothouse. When the plant has done blooming, 

 and made its growth for the next season, it requires to be rested by withholding 

 water for a time. 



Boronia triphylla, var. 2d, 1.ATIF01.1A.— The three-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 47.) 

 Rutaceae. Octandria Monogynia. This neat and pretty kind is a native 

 of New Holland, and has bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. It is 

 rather an erect-growing shrub, branching, and blooming freely. Each flower is 

 about three-quarters of an inch across, of a pretty rose-colour. Like all the 

 Boronias, and similar plants, it thrives best in a light sandy soi\,to have the pot 

 well drained with potsherds, and over them some rough pieces of turfy peat. 

 To be placed where it can have plenty of light and air, in winter. In watering, 

 great care is requisite, so the plant does not become too dry or be kept too wet ; 

 for if once much affected by either, the plant seldom recovers. 



Bossuea tenuicaulis.— Slender-stemmed. (Bot. Mag. 3895.) Leguminosae. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. A native of Van Diemen's Land, and has bloomed in 

 the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. It is a greenhouse plant, of considerable 

 beauty, blooming profusely. Flowers yellow, streaked, and marked with red. 

 They are produced in long spikes. Each flower is rather more than half an inch 

 across. It is a procumbent, shrubby plant, producing numerous long branches. 

 It deserves a place in every greenhouse. 



Ci.ianthus carneus.— Flesh-coloured Glory Pea. (Bot. Reg. 51.) Legu- 

 minosae. Diadelphia Pecandria. '.Synonym. Streblorhiza speciosa.) Discovered 

 by Dr. Enlicher, on a small rock off the coast of Norfolk Island. The flowers 

 are produced in erect racemes, five or six in each, rather less than those of Clian- 

 thuspuniceus,of a pretty rosy-pink colour. It is a twining plant, and flowers well 

 in a cool conservatory. It is also an evergreen, and suitable for covering a trellis, 

 &c. It delights in a strong rich soil, with plenty of root room, and thus becom- 

 ing large by being so treated, blooms freely. It strikes readily from cuttings, 

 and may be had cheap at the general nursery establishments. 



Dendhobium discolor.— Dull-coloured. (Bot. Reg. 52.) Orchidaceae. Gyn- 

 andria Monandria. Messrs. Loddiges obtained it from Java; with them it has 

 bloomed. It has stout, erect stems, four feet high, swollen in the middle, and 

 terminates in racemes of about sixteen flowers,of a dingy yellowish brown, which 

 are as curled as those of Gloriosa superba. Each flower is about two inches 

 across. The lip has five wavy plates of a light violet colour. 



Hypocalyptus obcordatus.— Obcordate. (Bot. Mag. 3894.) Leguminosae. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. (Synonyms, Crotularia cordifolia. Spartium sophoroides.) 

 A very pretty greenhouse plant, which has been for some years in this country, 

 but is not as generally found in collections of plants as it merits. It is a Capo 

 plant, easily grown, blooms freely, and for a considerable time. It is a shrubby 

 plant, growing two feet high, branching, each terminating with a raceme of 

 flowers, of a beautiful reddish purple. It may be procured cheap at most of the 

 public nursery establishments, and certainly deserves a place in every green- 

 house. 



Martantiius cotKui.EA-puNCTATUs— Blue-spotted. (Bot. Mag. 3893.) Pit- 

 tonxnres. Pentandria Monogynia, From the Swan River Colony. Seeds of it 

 were received by Mr. Law of Clapton, and marked Solly* 01 Hillardiera species, 

 f,om the Darling range of mountains. The plant has bloomed with Mr. Cuu- 



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