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onideae. Syngenesia Superfiua. From Mexico. It is a strong growing plant, 

 blooming in the open border in autumn. The flowers are of a deep orange- 

 yellow colour, each being about two inches across, produced in a short terminal 

 kind of corymb. 



PLANTS NOTICED IN BOTANICAL REGISTER NOT FIGURED. 



Tritklia aurea. — A small bulbous-rooted plant. The flowers are a deep 

 yellow. It has lately flowered with Captain Sulivan, who brought it from Monte 

 Video, and who sent it to Sir C. Lemon, Bart., at Carcleu. 



Mormodes arojiaticuji. — From Mexico. It is of a p3le pink, with dull red 

 specks. The flowers have a powerful odour, like aromatic vinegar. 



Eulophia squalida. — A terrestrial orchideous plant, with foliage like a Bletia; 

 scape rises half a yard high, having dingy pale flowers. 



Dendrobium excisum.— From Siucapore. It is very like D. revolutum or 

 calcaratum. 



Fuchsia radicans. — From Brazil. It has a creeping stem, which roots like 

 ivy. The flowers are very like those of F. macrostema, about two inches and a 

 half long. 



Catasetum fuliginosum.— -Its habit is that of C. tridentatum ; but the flowers 

 are in a dense erect raceme, of a deep green colour, spotted with a dull black 

 purple. Lip stained with pale purple. It has lately bloomed in the collection 

 at Sion Gardens. 



Lobelia pyramidalis. — From the Himalayas. It is a herbaceous plant. The 

 leaves are narrow, long, lanceolate, finely serrated. The flowers are about an 

 inch long, of a greenish-violet colour. 



Niphjea oblonga. — Mr. Hartweg sent this from Guatemala to the London 

 Horticultural Society. The present is an herbaceous plant, having hairy, fleshy, 

 oblong, serrated leaves, like those of a Gloxinia, and bearing a cluster of large 

 snow-white flowers at the summit of the stem. It is a Gesneraceous plant, but 

 it approaches near to Gloxinia. 



NOTICED IN NURSERIES, &C- 



At Mr. Henderson's Nursery. 



Lobelia bicolor. — Flowers pale lilac ; leaves very prettily veined. Green- 

 house. 



Cyanotus axillaris. — Flowers fine blue, and with its singularly pretty feathery 

 stamens is very beautiful. Greenhouse. 



Bbgonia Martynia. — The foliage is very pretty, dark, handsomely notched. 

 It blooms very freely ; the flowers are flesh-coloured. Stove. 



Ipom.ka Hahdingii. — The leaf is as large, and somewhat like in form, as one 

 of the Tulip Tree. The flower is large too, of a pretty lilac, with fine purple 

 plaits. Stove. 



Malva campanulata. — Flowers freely, of a pretty light lilac colour. Green- 

 house. 



Solan um crispum. — The flowers are of a pretty pale blue. Greenhouse. 



Menanthus cerulea punctata. — The leaves and habit of the plant is very 

 like a Hovea. The flowers are produced in spikes, blue, very neat and pretty. 

 Greenhouse. 



At Messrs. Low and Cu's. 



Martynia. — An unnamed new species, with large cordate leaves. The stem 

 is about two feet and a half high, crowned with a panicle of flowers. Kach 

 flower is about an inch and a half long, of beautiful orange colour, spotted and 

 streaked handsomely in the inside. Greenhouse. 



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