66 MISCELLANY OF NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



PART II. 



MISCELLANY 



OF 



NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



New or Rare Plants. 



Adenocai.ymna comosum. Hop flowered. (Bot. Mag. 4210.) Bigno- 

 niai-eae. Didynamia Angiospermia. (Synonym, Bignonia comosa.) A native of 

 Brazil and Guiana. It is a tall climber, and trained neatly in the hothouse, 

 makes a brilliant appearance with its very numerous racemes of large rich yellow 

 trumpet-shaped flowers. Each blossom across the mouth is about two inches. 

 It is very likely to flourish in a warm greenhouse or conservatory, and well 

 deserves to be in every one. It is in the collection at Kew Gardens. 



Abei.ia rupestris. Rock Abei ia, (Bot. Reg. 8.) Caprifoliaceae. Pen- 

 tandria Monogynia. A native of China, found by Mr. Fortune, amongst rocks 

 on Chamoo Hills, and sent to the Horticultural Society. It is a small spreading 

 bush, producing its numerous flowers in whorls, as many of the Honeysuckles. 

 The corolla is about an inch long, pure white, and the calyx rose coloured. It 

 flourishes in the greenhouse, but as it arrows in China, in situations where the 

 Hydrangea does, it is very likely to endure the climate of this country, trained 

 against a good aspected wall. 



Dendrobium Dalhousieanum. Lady Dalhousie's. (Bot. Reg. 10.) Orchi- 

 daceae. Gynannria Monaudria. From India, but what part thereof notknown. 

 It is in the Chatsworth collection. The flowers are produced on stems three to 

 four feet high. They blossom in an horizontal raceme. Each flower is about 

 four inches across, white, with beautiful pink edges, and on each side of the tip 

 has a large rich crimson-red spot. It is a very noble and beautiful species, 

 deserving to be in every collection. It has bloomed at Chatsworth, and with 

 Messrs. Loddiges's. 



Erica Cavendishiana. The Duke of Devonshire's. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) 

 Ericaceae. Octandria Monogynia. Erica depiessa had been impregnated by 

 the pollen of E. Patersonia, at Messrs. Rollisson's, of Tooting, and one of the 

 produce was the present variety. It is one of the handsomest, and is so much 

 noticed as to be exhibited in almost every collection at the London shows. The 

 rich yellow flowers produced in vast profusion, each an inch long, give a beau- 

 tiful appearance. The shrub, too, is a neat erect grower, and easily kept as a 

 handsome pyramidal bush. It deserves to be in every collection. It may be 

 had of most of the general nurseries. 



Franciscea hydrangejeformis. Hydrangea like. (Bot. Mag. 4209.) 

 Scrophularines. Didynamia Angiospermia. It was discovered by Mr. Gardner, 

 on the Organ Mountains, in India. It is a robust looking shrub, about four feet 

 high, growing in its native country in moist places, in the forests. The leaves 

 are six to eight inches long, and about three broad. The flowers are produced 

 in a close receme or cyme, of a rich blue-purple, becoming nearly white with 

 age. Each blossom is about an inch and a halt across. It does best grown in 

 the stove. 



Gloxinia pallidifloka. Pale flowered. (Bot. Mag. 42 13.) Gesneriaceae. 

 Didynamia Gymnospermia. It was sent from Santa Martha to the Royal 



