SEW AND RARE PLANTS. 115 



PART III. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since our lost, 

 '.. AMPHICOME ARGUTA, Finely-cut leaved. [Bot. Reg. 19, 



BIGOMACBX, DIDYNAM1A ANG IOSPERMI A . 



This very handsome flowering herbaceous perennial plant, was discovered 

 on the Himalaya Mountains, at an elevation of six or eight thousand feet. 

 Seeds of it were sent to the London Horticultural Society, in whose garden 

 a plant bloomed last August. It grows about a foot high, of a neat appear- 

 ance, producing its beautiful blossoms abundantly, in a terminal raceme ; 

 each flower is near two inches long, funnel-shaped, the mouth divided into 

 6ve sections, and of pretty rose colour, with a few streaks of while, and the 

 bottom part ot the tube is yellow. It blooms from June to the end of summer. 

 It is a very desirable plant for the flower garden ; it is found to require a 

 dry situation, or will be very liable to perish in winter, it would be best to 

 protect it in winter by a hand glass, or something of that kind. The plant 

 can be propagated either by seeds or cuttings. Amphiscome, from amphi, 

 around; and kome, hair; alluding to the structure of the seeds. 



2. CY.MBIDIUM TRISTE, Lurid fljwered. [Bot. Mag. 36-18. 



ORCHIDACE.S. GYNANDKIA MONAKDRIA. SYNONYM, EP1DENDRIM TRISTE. 



A native of Nepal, Ceylon, and Japan. It has bloomed in the collection 

 of Orchideae belonging to John Horsfield, Esq., Everton, near Liverpool. 

 The flowers are produced on a short sessile raceme. The stem rising about 

 eight or ten inches ; sepals of a purplish-yellow, lip large, and of a rich deep 

 purple, column mottled with rosy-purple. Each blossom is about an inch 

 and a half across. 



3. LOASA LATERITA, Red flowered. 



LOASACESB, POLYADELPHfA POLYANDR1A. 



Mr. Tweedie sent seeds of this pretty flowering species from TucumaD. 

 It is a line climbing kind, producing numerous flowers of an orange red 

 colour. It blooms freely in the open air during summer, and when grown iu 

 a greenhouse or conservatory nearly all the year. It is easily raised by 

 seeds or cuttings, and delights in a sandy loam. It is an ornamental plant 

 for a Verandah or trellis in the (lower garden. 



4. MAMMILLARIA FLORIBUNDA, topioia flowering. [Bot. Mag. 3647. 



CACTEJe, ICOSANDR1A MONOGYNIA. 



This pretty flowering species was imported from Chili, by Mr. Hrtchen, 

 and is now in the rich collection of Messrs. Mackie, Norwich. The flowers 

 arc produced at the crown of the plant, most abundantly. They are of a 

 fioe rosy pirjk colour. 



