NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 287 



RHODODENDRON CAMPANULATUM. Bell-flowered. 



(Bot. Mag. 3759. 



ERICE.E. DBCANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This very fine flowering species has rarely bloomed in this country, it has 

 however, flowered with Mr. Dickson, at the Newton Nursery, Chester ; Mr. 

 Dickson states, that the plant has been growing in the open ground for seven 

 years, and during the severest winter has been uninjured; that gentleman, 

 having to remove the plant from its situation, placed it in a tub in Novem- 

 ber 1838, and put it in a greenhouse, where it bloomed the last spring. The 

 plant is near five feet high, and bushy, and when in bloom was a most splend- 

 id object ; the flowers are of a very delicate rose colour, dotted with a rosy 

 purple, and tinged with yellow in the tubular part. Each blossom is about 

 two inches and a half across, of a bell shaped form, and are produced nu- 

 merously in fine heads. 



CLEMATIS LATHYRIFOLIA. Large flowered erect Clematis. 



(Bot. Reg. 61. 



RANUNCULACEA. POLYANDRIA POLYGYN1A. 



A very showy hardy perennial plant, the stems grow erect to about four 

 feet high, producing a profusion of white blossoms from July to the end of 

 the summer. 



DENDROBIUM FORMOSUM. Beautiful Tree-bloom. (Bot. Reg. 64. 



ORCHIDACE*. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Collected on the Nepal Mountains, by Dr. Wallicb, who observes that it 

 gTows in large tufts upon trees or rocks; it is a magnificent flowering spe- 

 cies. The flowers are produced on racemes, each having from four to seven 

 blossoms ; the flower is about three and a half inches across, of a beautiful 

 delicate white, having a large yellow spot on the labellum. It has a very 

 agreeable perfume. 



FABIANA IMBRICATA. Imbricated. (Bot. Reg. 59. 



SOLANACBA. PBNTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This very neat and pretty flowering plant was originally discovered in 

 Chili, it has very much the resemblance of some of the profuse white flower- 

 ing heaths ; the blossoms are produced in spikes of six or more inches long; 

 each flower is near an inch in length, and as a very neat and delicate 

 appearance. The plant is shrubby, having a bright green foliage, rather 

 resembling in form the Tamarisk; the shrub, however, forms a pretty bush, 

 and when grown in the greenhouse, is loaded with blossoms. It thrives well 

 in sandy peat, and may be kept out of doors in summer, as is done by some 

 with Heaths, but requires a little shade from mid-day sun. It has bloomed 

 in the collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, &c, Exeter, and Messrs. Rol- 

 lissons, Tooting. We have seen it exhibited at the Hort. Societies' Rooms, 

 London. 



PATERSONIA SAPPHARINA. Sapphire. . (Bot. Reg. 60. 



PATERSONIA. IR1D.H. moinadei.phia triandria. 



A native of the Swan River, and introduced by that indefatigable florist, 

 Captain Mangles. The plant is of the Iris tribe in growth, but the flowers 

 have more the appearance of the Tradescantia ; the stems rise to about two 

 feet high, and terminate with a spatha of numerous flowers. Each blossom 

 is about two inches and a half across, of a most beautiful violet blue, shaded 

 with darker. The flowers are of short duration, but are produced in con- 

 tinued succession. A greenhouse or cool frame treatment we judge to be 

 suitable; it is well worth growing. 



