262 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Unclassed Specimens — 1. Cytisus nigricans, Mr. Dickenson; 2. Azalea 

 (early red), Ditto; 3, Rhododendron hirsutum, Ditto ; 4. Buddie a globosa, J. 

 Pope and Sons. 



On an American Aloe, &c. — If yon think this worth putting into your 

 pleasing publication, I beg you will ; Mr. Bamford Hesketh, of Gwrych 

 Castle, eighteen years ago, pulled down an old hot-house, in which there 

 was an American Aloe, (then about sixty years old,) not considering it any 

 ornament in the new house, it was laid against a south wall in the garden 

 in its old decayed box, where it has remained ever since withont ever having 

 been matted or covered ; last winter, 1838, it was a little pinched, but it 

 quite recovered its appearance in the summer, and is now as healthy and 

 vigorous as it ever was. 



Can the following be accounted for ? I sowed sixpennyworth of Hollyhock 

 seed, and transplanted them, they all turned out yellow and double. An 

 answer is solicited from some reader of the Cabinet. 



Abergele, August 19th, 1839. J. B. H., 



NEW PLANTS. 



Angrjecum armeniacum. — Orchidaceae. — A native of Seirre Leone, bloomed 

 at Messrs. Loddiges ; the flowers are of an uniform apricot colour, produced 

 closely, airanged on a horizontal lateral spike. (Bot. Reg.) 



Malachenia clavata. — Orchidaceee. — From Rio; it has bloomed with R. 

 Bateman, Esq. ; the flowers are of a dull green, spotted with purple. The 

 scape rises about nine inches. (Eot. Reg.) 



Senecio odoratus. — Why called " Sweet scented?" for it is scentless. The 

 leaves are like an evergreen shrub ; the plant rises to two feet high ; the 

 flower heads are yellow, small, rayless, and arranged in corymbous panicles. 

 It is a native of New Holland. (Bot. Reg.) 



Eurybia glutinosa. — From Van Dieman's Land; it is an erect growing 

 shrub, much the appearance of the Rosemary ; the flowers are produced in 

 corymbous heads, the starry ray of each blossom is of a clear pale violet 

 colour. It is a good additional conservatory plant. 



Portulacea grandiflora; rutila. — A beautiful variety of this pretty flowering 

 greenhouse perennial plant; the flowers are of the richest crimson, more 

 bright than P. Gillesii. and about as large as half-a-crown when full blown. 



Stenochilus longifolia. — From New Holland; it forms a small bush ; each 

 flower is about an inch long, of a dullish green-red colour. 



Stenochilus incanus. — From New Holland; it forms a grey bush, looking 

 like an olive, or some leafless acacia ; the flowers are solitary, a little more 

 than an inch long, of a dull green colour. 



Asteracantha longifolia. — A handsome flowering greenhouse herbaceous 

 perennial plant ; it forms a blight rich green bushy plant, bearing numerous 

 whorls of gay blue labeate flowers. 



Cytisus Weldenii.— The flowers are produced in erect racemes; they are 

 of so deleterious a quality that the scent will produce headache. 



Nepeta salvicefolia. — An Himalayan perennial plant, producing its flowers 

 in long stalked cymes, they are white, and of little beauty. 



Ipomea longifolia. — Stems erect, not twining, the flowers grow singly in 

 the exils of the leaves ; they are white with a delicate noyea scent, and as 

 lar<*e as one of Calonyction bona nox. The plant is a perennial, with fleshy 

 tuber like root, and if treated as is done with the dahlia root, will bloom 

 freely in the open border. 



Solatium candidum. — A noble looking shrubby plant, with leaves a foot 

 lono- and nine inches broad, producing clusters of large and handsome white 

 flowers. It has bloomed in the collection of George Barker, Esq., by whom 

 it had been received from Mexico. 



Nuttallia Malvseflora. — The flowers are of a pale pink colour ; The plant 

 grows about half a yard high, and deserves a place in every flower garden ; 

 it has bloomed in the Epsom Nursery. 



