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Gardens at Kew. It is somewhat in the form of the old and beautiful Gloxinia 

 maculata, the flowers a trifle less, similar in shape, and a paler colour. It is a 

 very pretty flowering species. 



Hibiscus Jerroi.dianus. Mr. Jkrrold's. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Malvaceae. 

 Mouadelphia Folyandria. Dr. Lippold sent seeds of it from Brazil. It is her- 

 baceous, and planted in the conservatory at Chatsworth ; grows from four to nine 

 feet high, with numerous shoots, which produce a profusion of large, rich, 

 splendid crimson flowers, through summer and autumn. It requires a hothouse, 

 or very warm part of a conservatory. It is increased by division of the roots. 

 Each flower is about five inches across, single, but brilliant in colour. 



Morsiodes Caktoni. Mr. Carton's. (Bot. Mag. 4214.) Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandna Monandria. From Santa Martha, by Mr. Purdie to the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew. The flowers are produced in an erect scape six inches long, 

 they are yellow, with red streaks. Each blossom is about an inch and a half 

 across ; very pretty. 



Platycodon qrandiflorum. Great flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Cam- 

 panulacea. Pentandria Monogynia. Sent to the Horticultural Society by Mr. 

 Fortune, from China. It has bloomed at Brooklands Park, Blackheath, in 

 Kent, under the skilful attentions of Mr. Ayres. It has been considered by Dr. 

 Lindley to be the same as the old Campanula grandiflora, but many consider it 

 much different. The flowers are produced solitary, on longish stalks, terminal. 

 Each blossom is about two and half inches across, deep blue, with a dark circle 

 near the centre. It was grown in the hothouse at Brooklands. It strikes readily 

 frem cuttings. During the early part of its growth, the plant showed no sign 

 of branching, but the lead being stopped, it soon branched and blossomed. It 

 is very handsome, and probably as hardy as C. pyramidalis. 



P^eonia Wittmanniana. The Yellow P^eony. (Bot. Reg. 9.) Ranuncu- 

 laceaj. Polyandria Peutagynia. Probably from Taurian Caucasus, it was 

 however received by the Horticultural Society, from the Nikita Garden, in the 

 Crimea. It is quite hardy, blooms in May. The flowers are single, about four 

 inches across, a beautiful yellow, with stamens and pistillum, tinged with red. 

 It is a remarkable acquisition. Twenty-five guineas was lately demanded for a 

 plant at one of the large continental nurseries. 



Rueli.ia MACROfHYLLA. Large-i.eaveu. (Bot. Reg. 7.) Acanthaceae. 

 Didynamia Angios|iermia. From Santa Martha. It has bloomed in the fine 

 collection at Siou Gardens, in the hothouse, growing freely, and blooming beau- 

 tifully. The flowers are produced in branching panicles, and are a rich carmine- 

 scarlet colour. They are about the size of the old, very handsome, R. formosa. 

 The leaves are six inches long, and near four broad. It is a fine species, readily 

 increasing by cuttings. Like all Ruellias, it does best in a moist atmosphere, 

 and it is essential to successful culture, very frequently to syringe them, so in 

 this instance, or the red spider will voraciously attack it. It is most successfully 

 grown in the Duke of Northumberland's collection, and it deseives a place 

 wherever practicable. 



SiNMNolA Vei.utina. Velvety. (Bot. Mag. 4212.) Gesneriaceae. Didy- 

 namia Angiospermia. From Brazil, it has bloomed at Kew, in the stove. The 

 stem about thiee inches high, and about half an inch thick. Leaves large ; 

 flowers solitary, tube two inches long, the limb spreading, so as to be over the 

 mouth an inch and a half across, a greenish-yellow colour. 



Stachytarpheta ABIBTATA. Bastard-Vervain. (Bot. Mag. 4211.) Ver- 

 benaceae. Diandria Monogynia. From South America. We saw it in beau- 

 tiful bloom last autumn, in the hothouse at Kew. It is half shrubby, branching, 

 producing numerous long, terminal spikes of very rich deep blackish-purple 

 flowers. It is a beautifully striking plant, and well deserves to be in every col- 

 lection. 



