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PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Noticed since our last. 



1 . FUNCKIA SIEBOLDIANA. Dr. Siebotd's. Bot. Mag. 3663. 



HEMEROCALLIDE.<£. HEXANDRIA HONOGYNIA. 



This species was discovered in Japan by Dr. Siebold. It has bloomed in 

 the Glasgow Botanic Garden flowering in the Greenhouse in July, The 

 flower scape rises more than a foot high, bearing a drooping raceme of lily 

 like flowers, white tinged with purple and green. 



2. GESNERA TUBEROSA. Tuberous-rooted. [Bot. Mag. S664. 



GES.NERIACE*. DIDYNAMIA G VMNOSPERM1A. 



This species was sent to this country from the Berlin gardens by the name 

 of G. rupestris, by mistake. The leaves are eight inches long, by six and 

 a half broad. It blooms freely during autumn in the hothouse. The flowers 

 rise above the surface of the tuber from two to three inches high. Each 

 tuber producing twenty and upwards. The flower is rather more than an 

 inch long, tubular, curved slightly. The limb of the corolla is of a deep 

 scarlet, the inside of the tubular portion yellow, and of a yellowish red. 



NEMESIA FLORIBUNDA. Many flowered. (Bot. Reg. 39. 



SCROPHULARIACE*:. DI DYNAM1A ANGIOSPERMIA. Synonym N. AFFINIS, 



3. A pretty little annual, whose blossoms strongly resemble some of the 

 I.inarias, the plant grows about afoot high, branching, producing numerous 

 llowtrs, each about half an inch across. White, with a tinge of yellow on 

 the upper lip. It blooms in the open border from June to September. 



PHALCENOPSIS AMABIL1S. The Indian Butterfly Plant. (Pot. Reg. 34. 



ORCHiDEas. Synonym, epidendrum amabile. 



4. It appears this singular species was first met with on the woody coast of 

 Nusa Kambanga, by Dr. Blume. Rumph in noticing it says, " in Ambovna 

 it grows on thick short trees, covered with moss, and it proceeds up' such, 

 coiling like a rope, and hangs down at the termination in entangled tufts. 



It has recently bloomed in the fine collection of Messrs. Rollinson's, Toot- 

 ing, for the first time it is supposed in this country. The form of the flower 

 is very curious; the petals are of a pure white, broad, and of a leathery ap- 

 pearance. Labellum, white, streaked and lined with yellow and red. Each 

 flower is near three inches across. The flower stem produces a panicle of 

 many flowers. The plant grows freely, being fixed to a piece of wood, along 

 with a little moss or turf attached, the whole being suspended in the orchidea* 

 house. Whenever this mode of affixing orchideee is adopted, the wood 

 should Ij. covered with i »ugh baik, or be in a decaying state to enable the 

 roots to fix themselves to it. 



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