2q NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since oir last. 

 }. BOUSSINGAULATIA BASSELOIDES. Bascella-like [Bot. Mag. 3620. 



CHENOPODE.E. HEXANDRIA, MONOGYNtA, 



A native of South America, near Loxa, in tlie Quintinian Andes. Mr, 

 Tweedie sent it to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Buenos Ayres. It is 

 a very desirable hMhouse plant. The root is fleshy and knotted, much in 

 the way of the common border plant, Solomon's Seal, and each extremity 

 throws up a rounded and branching twining stem. The leaves are fleshy, 

 cordate, and at the lower part of the stem, are from four to five inches long. 

 The flowers are produced on graceful racemes, each from three to five 

 inches long, bearing numerous, greenish-white blossoms, which are highly 

 fragrant. Each blossom is about a quarter of an inch across. The racemes 

 of flowers are produced at the opposite of the leaves, and nearly every 

 leaf is thus accompanied. The plant merits a place in every plant stove. 

 It is very probable it would flourish well in a good greenhouse. Boussin- 

 gault, a celebrated naturalist and traveller in South America. 



2. ANIGOZANTHUSMANGLESII, var, ANGUST1FOLIA. Narrow-leaver!. 



[Bot, Reg. 2012. 



HEMERDACJE. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



A native of the Swan River, from whence it was sent by Sir James Stir- 

 ling to R. Mangles, Esq. The variety is distinct from the beautiful A. 

 Manglessii, It differs in having much narrower leaves and smaller flowers, 

 which are rather of redish orange, colour at the base an entire green ; these 

 being covered with feathery hairs, which have a pretty effect. The plant is 

 an herbaceous perennial, the flower stems rise about a foot high, each 

 plant is of easy culture, but in order to succeed well, it requires to have a 

 small portion of chalk mixed with loam and peat. It is not very tender, only 

 requiring the protection of a frame in winter. Anigozanthus, from anistho, 1 

 rise up, and anthos, flower. 



3. COSMUS TERMIFOLIUS. Fine leaved. (Bot. Rfg. 2007. 



ASTERACEJE. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 



Another interesting and handsome flowering annual from Mexico. Seeds 

 of it had been presented to the London Horticultural Society, by G. F. Dick- 

 son, F. H. S. in the garden of the Society, it has recently bloomed. The 

 flowers are more than two inches across. The disk is yellow, the petals 

 are of a fine rosy purple, and make a very showy appearance, The beauty 

 of the foliage is very striking having a fennel-like appearance, and with it 

 the flowers make a fine showy contrast. The plant grows to about two 

 feet high. When the seeds are sown late in the spring, the plants usually 

 bloom so late in autumn that seeds can rarely be obtained, but by sowing 

 very early in spring in pots, and transplanted out, they bloom early and ripe 

 seeds may be gathered. Or if sown late in summer in pots, and be pre- 

 served in "a cool frame or Greenhouse through winter, such plants turned out 

 early in spring will succeed best, and bloom through a great part of the sea.- 



