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and its tube is extended into a singular blunt horn, which projects beyond the 

 calyx, and is more or less lobed at the Bides. The corolla measures about an inch 

 and a half across the flat border, and the tube is rather larger. Achimenes 

 patens, like most of the other kinds, may be treated so as to flower nearly at all 

 seasons of the year, and only requires to be kept in a dormant state and quite dry- 

 when at rest. It should be started gradually, and grows best in a soil composed 

 of a small portion of well decomposed cow-dung and half decayed leaf mould, in 

 a very rough state. It is easily increased by the scaly roots, and requires a close 

 atmosphere, but not a very damp or hot one. It is a very handsome kind, being 

 one of the finest both for colour and foliage. 



Gardenia Florida, L. ; var. Fortuniana. Mr. Fortune's Gardenia. Green- 

 house shrub from North of China. The common single and double varieties of 

 this plant are known to every one. That which is now noticed differs merely in 

 rhe extraordinary site of the flowers, which are nearly 4 inches in diameter, and 

 in having fine broad leaves, sometimes as much as C inches long. The flowers 

 are pure white, changing to light buff as they go off, and not unlike a very large 

 double Camellia. Their calyx has the long broad lobes of the original species, 

 instead of the narrow lobes, at least twice as short as the tube of the corolla, of 

 G. radicans, by which that species is technically known. It is one of the very 

 finest shrubs in cultivation, and ranks on a level with the double white Camellia, 

 which it equals in the beauty of the flowers and leaves, aud infinitely excels in 

 its delicious odour. — Journal of Hort. Society. 



New Plants exhibited at the Horticultural Show at Chiswick, on 

 July 11th. — Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, sent a handsome, new, and, ap- 

 parently, free-flowering Ixora, having large pa'e-green leaves, and semi- globular 

 heads of salmon-coloured flowers, something in the way of I. crocata. From the 

 same nursery were also Cuphea cordata ; a new ./Eschynanthus pulcher, and 

 another new form of that handsome genus, with purple-tinged leaves, and dark- 

 red blossoms issuing from a downy chocolate sheath. Associated with these was 

 the same long-spurred Balsam (B. latifolia) produced at the June show ; aud a 

 Clematis, named glandulosa, with large heart-shaped leaves, and numerous long- 

 stalked deep chocolate and white flowers. F. Scheer, Esq., of Kew, sent a new 

 Bolivian Echinopsis; Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple place, their new jEschy- 

 nanthus Boschianus ; Mr. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, the handsome 

 Pavetta Borbonica ; Mr. Jack, Cuphea miniata, a pretty species, with opposite 

 hairy leaves, and axillary flowers, having a purplish tipped calyx, and two erect 

 vivid scarlet petals. Along with it was also a small Mussaenda macrophylla. 

 Frum Messrs. Rollissou was a Hoya, with clusters of greenish-white blossoms, 

 less handsome than carnosa. Mr. Jackson, of Kingston, sent a variety of his 

 Seedling Heath (E. Jacksoni), a good addition to this beautiful tribe ; and the 

 Chinese Eycopodium cassium. Mr. Fairbairu, of Wandsworth-road, Polygala Dal- 

 maisiana; and Mr. Groom, Calj stegia pubescens. 



New Plants vrom China, &c. — Most of our readers are aware that the Hor- 

 ticultural Society sent a collector of plants (Mr. Fortune) into China. Some 

 very valuable ones have already bloomed in the Society's garden, and high ex- 

 pectations are entertained of many others. A writer in a recent number of the 

 Gardener's Chronicle describes a few which are now in bloom, and knowing our 

 readers will be gratified to know somewhat of them, we extract a portion. 

 " Mr. Fortune's Indigofera decora. — This forms a dark-green bush, with some- 

 what glaucous branches and pinnate leaves, from whose axils are produced 

 racemes of beautiful light rosy flowers ; indeed the whole appearance of the 

 plant is very handsome, fully realizing all that has been said of it. Near it 

 was another of Mr. Fortune's plants in bloom in the shape of Rhynchospermum 

 jagminoides, a pretty sweet-scented greenhouse twiner, with snow-white flowers 

 something like those of the white jasmine. It will, no doubt, form a valuable 

 addition to this class of plants. On a front shelf was a Lysimachia, producing 



