NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



PART II. 



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LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since our lust. 



1. ANIGOZANTHUS FLAVIDA. Yellow haired. [Bot. Reg. 37. 



HEMEDORACE. IIEXANDRIA MONOQYNIA. 



This plant was long ago introduced into this country from New Holland, 

 but it is to be found only in a few collections. Recently it has been sent from 

 the Swan River colony to R. Mangles, Esq. Sunning Hill, Berks. If culti- 

 vated in !the open border during summer; it grows very vigorously and 

 blooms freely, a rich loamy soil mixed with about one-fourth of sandv peat 

 suit it best. When grown in a pot in the frame-house, it requires plenty ot 

 room, to be placed near the glass, and have a free supply of water. The 

 flowers are green in their early stage, changing to a yellowish green, when 

 advanced. The outside of the flower is very hairy. 



2. CENTAUREA DEPRESSA. Prottrate. [Bot. Mag. 8662. 



COMPOSITE. SYNGENESIA FRUSTANBA. 



The flowers of this species are very like the blue corn bottle of our own 

 fields, but are of a much brighter colour. The plant is of a more humble 

 growth, growing about nine inches high. When in bloom, the size ot 

 the flowers, the splendid colour and profusion of them upon a plant so 

 small, has a very pretty effect, and highly ornamental to the flower garden. 

 The present species is annual, a nati-.e of Persia, but succeeds well in the 

 open border in this country. 



3. EPIDENDRUM VIRIDI-PURPUREUM. Purplish green flowered. 



(Bot. Mag. 3666. 



Imported from Jamaica by Mr. Horsfall of Liverpool, and has bloomed in 

 the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The flower stem rises to about half a yard 

 high, and produces a drooping dense raceme of flowers, each about three 

 quarters of an inch across. The sepals are of a pale green tinged with 

 brown. The column green tinged with purple. 



4. IPOMEA EONARIENSIS. Bueno% Ayres Ipomeu. [Bot. Reg. 3665. 



CONVOLVULACEX. PENTANORIA MONOGYNIA. 



Mr. Tweedie observes that this species grows plentifully on ditch banks 

 about Buenos Ayres, and seeds of it were sent by him to this country. The 

 plant has a large tuberous root. It requires to be grown in the stove, 

 where it produces flowers freely, very much resembling those of I insignia ; 

 they are very handsome, of a pretty lilac colour, having the inside ot the 

 tubular portion of a dark purple. The plant merits a place in every stove 

 as a twiner, growing to a great extent if required, and blooming profusely. 

 Each (loww is about two inches across. 



