256 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



BURR1ELIA GRACILIS. Slender. (Bot. Mag. 3758. 



SBNECCOIDBS. SYNOENEStA SUPERFLT.TA. 



This genus is nearly allied to Lasthenia ; the present and two other spe- 

 cies were discovered by Mr. Douglas, in California. 'I he present species is 

 sometimes grow n in our flower gardens under the name of Lasthenia Califor- 

 nia ; it is a hardy annual, flowering for several successive months. The 

 plants rise from six to nine inches high, producing numerous solitary flowers, 

 of a fine yellow, and when in masses has a very lively and showy appear- 

 ance ; each blossom is rather more than an inch across. It is very useful as 

 an edging for a flower bed or border, where the plants in the bed are of an 

 opposite colour. 



DANBENYA FULVA. Tawney colored. (Bot. Reg. 53. 



LILIACEA. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



A bulb of this singular flowering species had been sent from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, but had probably been collected in Madagascar, or the East 

 Coast of Africa, to Robert Barchard, Esq., of East Hill, Wandsworth. The 

 flowers are produced in a central scape, and on a dense raceme, they are of 

 a tawny colour, and produce little show. 



ERYSIMUM PEROFSKIANUM. Treacle Mustard. (Bot. Mag. 3757. 



CRUCIFERA. TETRADYNAMIA S1L1QUOSA. 



A native of Persia, and is either annual or biennial ; the stem rises about 

 half a yard high, branching, each branch terminating in a long spike of fine 

 deep orange colored flowers, similar in appearance to a single flowered wall- 

 flower ; each blossom is about three-quarters of an inch across. The plant 

 is found to flourish much better when grown in the open ground, being rather 

 languid when grown in a pot. It is highly ornamental, and deserves a place 

 in every flower garden or greenhouse; we recently saw some fine specimens 

 of it in bloom, and doubt not but it will soon become general. 



ONCIDIUM TRULLIFERUM. Trowel-lipped. (Bot. Reg. 57. 



ORCHIDACE.E. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Imported from Brazil, by Messrs. Loddiges', where it has bloomed; the 

 flowers are produced numerously upon a stiff and erect scape, they are yel- 

 low, marked with red ; the lip very much resembles in form a bricklayer's 

 trowel. It is an interesting and pretty species, growing freely when culti- 

 vated in the damp stove, either in a pot or secured to a piece of wood. 



LUPINUS BARKERI. Mr. Barker's. (Bot. Reg. 56. 



LEGUMINOSE/E. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



This new species was obtained by George Barker, Esq., Springfield, near 

 Birmingham, from Mexico; the flowers are produced densely upon a long 

 spike, and are of a mixture of lilac, blue, white, and rose, in the same flow- 

 er; it may be treated as a half hardy annual or as a biennial. It continues 

 to bloom from June to the end of the season. 



LELIA ALB1DA. White flowered. (Bot. Reg. 54. 



ORCHIDACE«. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



A native of the head quarters of Mexican Orchideafe, viz., Oaxaca ; it is 

 the only Lcelia which has white flowers. It has bloomed with J. Bateman, 

 Esq., and Thomas Harris, Esq. ; each flower is about two inches across. 



