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PART II. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



(Noticed since our last.) 



BRASSAVOLA MARTlNIANA. Dr. Von Martin's Brassavola. (Bot. Reg. 



ORCHIDACE*. GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. 



1. This species was originally discovered by Dr. Von Martins on the banks 

 of the Rio Negro in Brazil, and where it was found to delight in a rough 

 and stony soil, not too retentive of moisture. Messrs. Loddiges's cultivated 

 the plant roost vigorously in a soil, consisting of rough peat, well mixed with 

 broken bricks or stones, and the pois must be well trained at the bottom, 

 Each flower is about two inches and a half across. Petals yellowish green' 

 iabellum white, having the base yellow. 



LEONOTIS NEPET^EFOLIA. Cat Mint-leaved. (Bot. mag. 3700 



LABIATJE. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 8ynonym. PHLOMIS NEPETEFOLIA. 



2. Introduced from various parts of Africa. The flowers are in dense 

 axillary, distrait clusters. Each cluster is upwards of two inches in dia- 

 meter. The flowers are of a bright red colour, clothed densely with red 

 velvetty h irs. The plant, when in bloom, makes an interesting and showy- 

 object. Leonatis, from Leon a liGn, and Os Opis an ear, from a fancied 

 resemblance of the flowers to the ears of that animal. 



LEYCESTERI A FORMOSA. Beautiful. (Bof. Reg. No. J 1839 



CAPRIFOLIACE*. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



3. This plant is a native of the Himlaya mountains, and is a charming shrub, 

 and grows very profusely on some of the highest mountains, at an elevation 

 of 80(10 feet above the plains, surrounding the valley of Nepal, where it 

 blooms from April to October. Seeds of it were sent from India by Dr. 

 Royle to the London Horticultural Society, it is found to be a hardy ever- 

 green, having stood the severity of the winters 1337 and 1838. In its na- 

 tive situation it grows says Dr. Wallich, so that its stem rises to twelve 

 feet high, and upwards of an inch in diameter. The leaves are large and 

 of a dull green. The flowers are produced in drooping spikes. The brac- 

 teas are showy, being of a reddish purple colour. The corolla is white, and 

 about three quarters of an inch long. 



The plant is found to grow the most freely in an open sunny situation. 

 Although it is not so handsome as was anticipated from the account sent of 

 it from India, yet it will be found very ornamental when the plant has ac- 

 quired a large size. Plants may now be obtained at a few shillings each at 

 most of the public nurserymen. Leycestria, so named in compliment to Wil- 

 Ham teycester, chief judge of the principal native court under ihe Bengal 

 presidency; a very distinguished Horticulturist, 



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