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it has bloomed. It is a most desirable shrubby plant, and it is hoped it will 

 prove quite hardy ; a slight frame protection has been found sufficient hitherto. 

 It is a very graceful shrub, having somewhat the appearance of a long willow- 

 leaved Arbutus. The flowers are produced in a compound, or paniculated, many- 

 flowered raceme, very similar to an Arbutus flower in colour and size, but the 

 quantity of blossoms are far more abundant. Dr. Hooker states, "a more de- 

 sirable plant has not been introduced for a long time." 



Coi.eus barbatus. — Bearded flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 219.) Labiatae. 

 Didynamia Gymnospermia. Synonym, Plectrantluis barbatns. A native of 

 Abyssinia. It is a green-house shrubby plant, growing about half a yard high, 

 and blooming very freely on its numerous stems. The flowers are produced in 

 spikes of six or eight inches long, of a light blue and pale purple colour, each 

 blossom being about an inch long, 



Cyrtochji.tjm fii.ipes.— Thread-stalked. (Bot. Reg. 59.) Orchidaces. 

 Gynandria Monandria. A native of Guatemala. It has bloomed with Mr. 

 Bateman, and is in the collection of the London Horticultural Society too. The 

 flower has very much the appearance of an Oncidium. Sepals and petals 

 brownish red, with a yellow edge and marked with yellow in various forms. 

 Labellum yellow. Each flower is near two inches across. The flowers are 

 produced ou a pendant raceme of many flowers. The following kinds of Cyr- 

 tochilum are known to exist, but not as yet introduced into this country. C. 

 undulatum, New Grenada. C. fiexuosum, New Grenada. C. ixiodes, New 

 Grenada. C. volubile, Peru. C. pardinum, Peru. 



DiPi.oi.iENA Dampieki. — Dampier's Double Cup. (Bot. Reg. 64.) Rutacea?. 

 Polyandria Monogynia. A native of the Swan River. It is a robust hardy 

 greenhouse shrub, requiring similar treatment to the Correas, to which it is 

 allied, though not in its general appearance. It has the arrangement of parts 

 formed in composite plants without any affinity to them ; it is also apetalous 

 among polypetalous ones. The flowers are somewhat like those of a Hypericum, 

 about two "inches across. The centre rosy-red, the other portion yellow. 



Gesnera discolor. — Varnished Gesnera. (Bot. Reg. 63.) Gesneraceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. A handsome flowering, herbaceous species, said 

 to be from Brazil. It has bloomed in the collection of Mr. Young, of the 

 Epsom Nursery. The flower stem rises two feet high. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in vast profusion in a very branching leafless panicle. Each flower is 

 near two inches long, and near half an inch in diameter across the tube, of a 

 beautiful varnished carmine red colour. The branches are of a shining deep 

 purple. It deserves to be in every collection of the tiibe of stove-plants. 



Echinocactus couynoues. — Many-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3906.) Cacteae. 

 Icosandria Monogynia. Grown in the rich collection of Cacteee, in the Bo- 

 tanic Garden at! Kew. It blooms freely in the summer months. The flowers 

 sue of a bright sulphur with a red eye formed of stigmas. The form of the 

 plant is subglobose, depressed at the top, and the sides are cut iuto about six- 

 teen ridges. 



Ebia convaixarioides. — The close-headed woolwort. (Bot. Reg. 62.) Or- 

 chidaceea. Gynandria Monandria. It has small whitish flowers collected in 

 dense heads. 



Heimia sai.icifoi.ia, TAB. grandiflora. — Large-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 60.) 

 Lythraceae. Dodecandria Monogynia. This plant was originally introduced 

 into this country under the name of Chrysostemma salicifohum. VVhen grown 

 successfully it is one of the handsomest greenhouse plants. It has been grown 

 in the open air, but though it will live so exposed, it dues not bloom near so 

 satisfactorily as in the greenhouse. The plant branches freely, and blooms pro- 

 fusely. The flowers are produced ou its long branches in three or four at each 

 joint. Each blosdom is near two inches across of a tine deep yellow. It has 

 recently bloomed in the collection at Sion House Gardens, where it had been 

 received from Buenos Ayres. It deserves a place in every greenhouse; it is 

 probable it may be had cheap at the principal nurseries. 



