260 NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



5. CRUCIANELLA STYLOSA. Long-styUd. (Bot. Reg. 55. 



CRUCIANELLA, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This pretty flowering herbaceous plant was discovered by the Russians 

 in Persia, growing upon rocks among the mountains. The flower stems rise 

 about half a yard high, each terminates with a head of bright pink flowers, 

 which are very ornamental. The plant seems well adapted for growing en 

 masse, a bed of it would make a beautiful show. It blooms from June to 

 September, 



6. EP1DENDRUM SCHOMBURGKII. Mr. Scomburgk's (Bot. Reg. 5S. 



ORCHIACEJE. GYNANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This beautilul flowering species was discovered by Mr. Scomburgk in the in- 

 terior of British Guayana. The flowers are produced in panicles of ten or 

 twelve on each, they are of a fine brilliant vermillion-red colour, similar to 

 the Lychnis Bungeana. Each flower is about two inches across. The plant 

 lias bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges's of Hackney. 



7. DAPHNE AUSTRALIS. Southern Daphne. (Bot. Reg. 50. 



THYMALACE*. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



•\ native of Italy near Naples. It lias much the appearance of Daphne 

 collina, but has more hairy foliage. The flowers are of a rosy purple colour, 

 highly transparent. It seems to be perfectly hsrdy in this country, and 

 well deserves a place in the shrubbery, 



8. HELLEBOUUS LIVIDUS, Corsican Hellebore. Bot. Eeg. 54. 



RANUNCULACE.fi. POLANDRIA, POLYGYNIA. 



A native of Corsica. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, producing erect ra- 

 cemes of greenish yellow flowers, each flower being about two inches across. 



•J. IBOMEA PLATENSIS. The Plata Ipomca. (Bot. Mag. 3685. 



CONVOLVULACEae. PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



A native of the banks of the Plata River. As is so common in the_ genus, 

 it is long and climbing, bearing umbels of from two to four flowers in each 

 The flower is of a delicate lilac colour, having a darker eye. It isa pretty hot- 

 house climber, blooming for several months successively. 



10. SOLANUM FRAGRAN8. Transparent North American Nightshade. 



(Bot. Mag. 36S4. 



SOLANE*. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



A native of south Brazil, Irom whence Mr. Tweedie sent it to the Glasgow 

 Botanic Garden, where it has recently bloomed. It grew rapidly in a pot in 

 the store for the first two years, but showed no disposition to bloom. It was 

 then planted in the border in the great stove, where it soon reached the height 

 of twelve feet, and produced numerous racemes of its changeable coloured 

 flowers, hating a powerful fragrance. The raceme is about five inches long, 

 having (eu or twelve flowers on each. The corolla at first is of a bluish- 

 purple, changing to a brown, and ultimately to a greenish yellow, with a dark 

 streak cm each petal. The flower is about an inch across, 





