258 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



rooms in Regent-street. It is a native of Nepaul. Each flower is about three 

 inches across, white, except there are some streaks and lines of yellow on the 

 labellum. 



Cuphea Mei.vili.a. — Melville's Cuphea. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 197.) Lythraceae. 

 Dodecandria Monogynia. A native of British Guiana. It is a stove herbaceous 

 perennial plant, blooming from May to November. It is like Salvia splendens, 

 &c, in its mode of growth, each shoot terminating in a simple raceme of twenty 

 or more flowers. Each flower is about an inch and a halt long. The calyx is 

 the coloured part, having no petals ; the tubular part, to about a quarter of aD 

 inch of the end, is of a fine crimson red, the end being green. We recently saw 

 a fine specimen in bloom at Messrs. Henderson's Nursery. The plant deserves 

 a place in every collection of stove plants. It is of easy culture, and readily in- 

 creased by cuttings. 



Epidenurum cai.ocheii.um. — Beautiful lipped. (Bot. Mag. 3898.) Orchi- 

 dacea. Gynandria Monandria. Fiom Guatemala, and has bloomed in the 

 Woburn collection. The flowers are numerous, on a spreading peduncle. Each 

 flower is about two inches across. Sepals of a yellow green, with a dull purple 

 blotch below the apex. Labellum yellow veined, and reddish veins at the base. 



Mikbei.ia speciosa. — Showy. (Bot. Reg. 58.) Leguminosae. Decandria 

 Monogynia. A shrubby greenhouse plant, from New Holland. The flowers are 

 of a violet-purple colour, with a yellow vexillum, each being about half an inch 

 across. It grows and blooms freely. 



Moumodes pakdina. — Leopard spotted. (Bot. Mag. 3900.) Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Mniiandria. This beautiful species has bloomed in the Woburn col- 

 lection. The flowers are produced numerously in a naked raceme, each flower, 

 when extended, being near three inches across ; they are yellow, profusely 

 spotted with red. The present species is much more lively and showy than the 

 variety unicolor, which we noticed in our September Number. 



Salvia confertiklora ; var. B. — Thick-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3899.) La- 

 biatse. Diamlria Monogynia. From the Organ Mountains of Brazil. It has 

 bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, coming to a greater perfection in the 

 greenhouse than the open ground. The plant grows to three or four feet high. 

 The flowers are produced in long raceme, of a bright-red colour, except the por- 

 tion within and just above the calyx, which is a clear white. The present plant 

 is much superior to the original species, whose flowers are of a dullish orange- 

 red. The spike of the present variety is half a yard long. 



Statice monopetai.a. — Monopetalous Sea Lavendar. (Bot. Reg. 54.) Pltim- 

 bagmacese. Peuiandria Pentagynia. Found wild in the southern parts of 

 Europe, and in the north of Africa. It is a shrubby plant, nearly hardy. It 

 blooms freely from July to September. The flowers are produced in a panicle 

 of spikes, each blossom being near an inch across, and of a bright rose colour. 



Strouii.anthes sessilis. — Sessile flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3902.) Ruelliaceae. 

 Decandria Monogynia. Sent from Bombay to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden 

 in 1833, and bloomed very freely in April of the present year. It is a her- 

 baceous perennial plant, the stems rising half a yard high. The flowers are 

 generally produced in pairs, a pair at each of the axil of the leaves to the ter- 

 minations of the stems. The flower is funnel-shaped, rather more than an inch 

 long, and about an inch across the mouth ; the tubular portion of a beautiful 

 rosy lilac, the limb marked and suffused with violet. It is a beautiful flowering 

 stove-plant. 



Tabern^jiontana dichotoma. — The forked. (Bot. Reg. S3.) Apocynaceae. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. From Ceylon. A beautiful fragrant flowering stove- 

 plant. In its native country it grows to five yards high. It has bloomed in the 

 stove collection at Sion-House gardens. It is a branching shrubby plant ; the 

 leaves are thick, from six to eight inches long, and about half as broad. The 

 flowers are produced in simple or compound racemes at the extreme divisions of 

 the brauchlets ; they are remote, large, white, with a yellow tube, scarcely fra- 

 grant. Each flower is about three inches across. 



Tithonia ovata. — Ovate-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3901.) Compositae Seneci- 



