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PLANTS NOTICED BUT NOT FIGURED IN THE BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



Hymenocai.i.is panamensis. — A handsome fragrant flowering plant from 

 Panama. The flower scape grows rather more than a foot high, containing 

 about a doze n flowers growing in an umbel. Each flower has a tube six inches 

 long, green at the lower part, white at the upper; limb white, about eight inches 

 across. It has flowered in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 



Berberis trikoliata. — A beautiful evergreen shrub, from Mexico, presented to 

 the London Horticultural Society. Dr. Lindley fears it will not prove hardy, but 

 considers it to merit a place in the greenhouse, yielding in beauty to no other 

 species yet introduced. It is a very rare kind. 



Lisimachia lobelioides. — It is a perennial rock-plant, from North India. 

 The flowers are white, with pink veins, nodding, and are profusely produced in 

 naked racemes at the ends of the branches. 



Linaria venosa. — A perennial plant from North India. The flowers are of a 

 dull yellowish-brown, streaked with dark lines. 



H^manthus magnificus. — From South Africa. It has bloomed at Spofforth. 

 It approaches very near to H. puniceus, though very superior in beauty. It 

 deserves a place in every greenhouse. It is in the collection of Messrs. 

 Loddiges. 



Stigmaphyllon ciliatum. — A stove plant in the Sion collection. It is a 

 climber. The flowers are handsome, large, bright yellow, produced in axillary 

 umbels. 



Pbdicularis pyramidata. From the Himalaya, in North India. It is a 

 hardy perennial, producing spikes of lively purple flowers. It has bloomed in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 



Hemiandra emarginata. — A pretty little herbaceous greenhouse plant, from 

 New Holland. The flowers are white, with a few pink spots. It is an inte- 

 resting plant. 



Eucalyptus calophylla. — From New Holland, to Captain Mangles, R. N. 

 The leaves are from four to six inches long, pale green, with a rich red margin. 

 The flowers are white, large. 



Hakea ruscifolia. — From the Swan River. A low grey bush. Flowers 

 white, produced in dense umbels, honey scented. It is a pretty looking green- 

 house shrub. 



Ruscoea lutea. — From North India. It flourishes in the greenhouse during 

 summer. It is a scitamineous plant, herbaceous. Flowers in spikes, of a pale 

 bull. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On a descriptive list ok best Tulips. — I was very much pleased with Mr. 

 William Harrison's Descriptive Cataloguf, of Tulips, and likewise with the 

 spirit that it is written in ; but until some considerable revisal has taken place in 

 the nomenclature of tulips, I think we shall make but slow progress in tulip 

 fancy. I am but a young florist, but have had the mortification of purchasing 

 the same tulip under several different names. Now if you could prevail on 

 some of your correspondents (that are ahle to do it) to give a descriptive cata- 

 logue of such sorts as aie worth growing, with the synonymous names, you will 

 be doing a great service to the fancy. The Editor of the " Gardener's Gazette" 

 ittempted it, but very imperfectly, in the 129th number of that work, and I 

 see that your worthy correspondent has fallen into a little error with his list. 

 In tlie first place Rose Hebe and Queen of England are one and the same 



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