234 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



ningham, in the stove at the Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, and proves to 

 be very curious and interesting. It blooms very freely, too, when grown in the 

 greenhouse, as it has done at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. The stems 

 are slender, woody, and twining. Leaves two inches long by half an inch broad. 

 The flowers are produced in umbellate cymes, very many in each, erect. The 

 corolla is irregular, of a blue lilac, paler on the outside. Each flower is near an 

 inch across. The plant is well worth a situation in every greenhouse. It will 

 very probably be found about as hardy as the Sollya heterophylla. 



Odontogi.ossl'm pulcheli.om — Pretty Tooth-tongue. (Bot. Reg. 48.) Or- 

 chidaceie. Gynandria Monandria. A native of Guatemala. The flowers are 

 produced in a raceme of six or seven in each. Each flower is about an inch and 

 a half across, white, with a small patch of yellow spotted with red at the origin 

 of the labellum. 



Oxai.is i.asianura. — Downy-stamened Wood Sorrel. (Bot. Mag. 3896.) Ox- 

 alideae. Decandria Pentagynia. A native of Mexico. At Berlin it grows and 

 blooms freely in the open border, and rises about nine inches high. It has 

 bloomed in the greenhouse in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. Each scape of 

 flowers contains about twenty. The flowers are of a pretty crimson colour, having 

 a bright sulphur eye. Each blossom is about an inch across. The plant con- 

 tinues long in bloom, and at Berlin it is grown to form a showy edging to garden 

 walks. 



Placea ornata. — Gay-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 50.) Amaryllidaceee. Hex- 

 andria Monogynia. A bulbous plant, a native of Chili ; the scape rises about 

 nine inches high, bearing a head of from four to seven flowers upon foot-stalks 

 two to three inches long. Each flower is about two inches across. The outside 

 is of a snowy white. Inside white, with numerous vermilion-coloured lines. 



Sida (abutilon) Bedfohdiana. — Duke of Bedford's Sida. (Bot. Mag. 3892.) 

 Malvaceae. Monadelphia Polyandria. A small tree, about five yards high, dis- 

 covered in the Organ Mountains of Brazil by Mr. Gardner, who sentit to the col- 

 lection atWoburn, where it bloomed last November. The flowers resemble in form 

 those of Abutilon striatum, but do not droop as do the latter, but are nearly erect. 

 They are of a beautiful yellow, richly veined with blood-colour, each flower being 

 near two inches across. The}' are produced numerous/;/ at the ends of the branches. 

 It is a very desirable plant, well worth a place in every collection of stove-plants. 



NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



White-flowered Verbena. — Mr. Ivery of Peckham has obtained a beautiful 

 white-flowered Verbena; it appears to be an hybrid between Verbena teucroides 

 and the V. pulchella alba. The flowers are about the size of V. Tweediana. of 

 a pure white. It is a valuable acquisition to this lovely tribe of flowers. It will 

 be offered for sale the ensuing spring. 



Amaneceus lonoiflora. — The well-known Triverania has recently had its 

 name changed to Amaneceus. The above is a new species, now in bloom at the 

 garden of the London Horticultural Society, and is certainly one of the loveliest 

 plants that has been introduced fur some time. The plants are about 18 inches 

 high, forming a pretty bush, ami are most profusely covered with bloom. Each 

 flower is about two inches and a half across, of a beautiful blue, with a light 

 centre. The fluwer in form is something like that of the old and handsome 

 species known heretofore as Triverania coccinea, only this new species has a tube 

 near three inches long. At present it is grown in the hot-house, but we are told 

 it is very likely to flourish in the greenhouse ; to us it appears so : if so, it ought to 

 be in every one. The liberality of the Society, no doubt, will soon extend its 

 circulation. It propagates very freely from cuttings. 



There is another new species in bloom along with the above, viz., A. rosea. 

 The plant forms a bush similar to the old Triverania coccinea, but the flowers 

 are nearly double the size, of a beautiful rose colour. This, too, is a very inte- 

 resting and valuable addition, deserving an equal extent of cultivation. 



[Want of space induces us to omit further notice of many new plants till our 

 next number. — Conductor.] 



