234 MISCELLANY OF NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



tion is a climber. The flowers are produced freely, in large drooping umhels, 

 pendant, pale, yellow, tipped with green, and streaked with brown. Each 

 blossom about three inches long. 



Fuibsia peduncularis. Jointed — pedicelled. (Bot. Mag. 4246.) Eleo- 

 carpa. Dodecandria Monogynia. It is a native of Van Dieman's Land, and 

 requires to be grown in a greenhouse or cool frame. In the warmer parts of 

 England it appears very likely to thrive in the open air. It is a myrtle-like 

 shrub, growing four to five feet high, bearing a profusion of bell-shaped droop- 

 ing flowers, on erect shoots, white with orange spots at the base. Each flower 

 is about three quarters of an inch across. It is a very neat and pretty plant. 



Gardenia Florida, var. Fortune. Mr. Fortune's. Mr. Fortune sent this 

 plant from the north of China to the Horticultural Society, and it has bloomed 

 in the Chiswick garden. The flowers are white, double, changing to light 

 buff' as they go off. Each blossom is about four inches across, and much like a 

 good sized double white Camellia. They have a delicious fragrance. It is one 

 of the finest shrubs in cultivation. 



Ixiolirion montanum. Mountain Ixio Lily. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Amarylli- 

 dacese. Decandria Monogynia. Bulbs of this beautiful spring-flowering lily 

 have been sent by Colonel Sheill from Teheran, in Persia, where it inhabits the 

 hilly districts. It is a scarce, hardy, bulbous plant, highly ornamental. The 

 flowers are produced in umbels of from six to eight in each. A separate flower 

 is about two inches long and as much across. The six pelals are each about a 

 quarter of an inch abroad. They are of rich blue colour. It is in the collection 

 of Messrs. Knight and Perry, of the Chelsea Nursery. 



Odontoglossum cordatum. Cordate-lipped. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Orchi- 

 daceae. Gynaudria Monandria. Imported from Mexico by George Barker, 

 Esq., of Birmingham. The flowers are produced in long racemes. Each blossom 

 is near three inches across. Sepals green, with brown stripes. Petals and label- 

 lum pale sulphur, with brown stripes. 



Ruei.i.ia lilacina. Lilac-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 45.) Acanthaceee. Didy- 

 namia Angiospermia. The flowers are produced solitary along the shoots. The 

 tube is a dark red. The five-parted limb a pretty rose. Each flower about an 

 inch and a half across. 



Tuop.'eoi.um crenatiplorum. Notched-petai.led. (Bot. Mag. 4245.) Tro- 

 peeolese. Octandria Monogynia. Sent from Peru by Mr. Lobb to Messrs. Veitch's. 

 It is a long straggling and climbing plant. The flowers are a bright yellow, 

 with a few short dark streaks upon the two upper petals. Each blossom is 

 about an inch and a half across. The plant is hardy during the summer. It is 

 much in the way of T. Lobbianum as to habit. 



New Plants seen at Nurseries, &c. 



The Royal Gardens at Kew Palace. — Cupiiea striqolissima. The flowers 

 are red and yellow ; very neat and pretty. 



Gloxinia ciirina. The tube outside pretty flesh colour, and a distinct rosy 

 circle around the mouth, margined with white. The inside of the tube is nearly 

 white. 



Begonia undulata. The flowers are very pure white, produced in pendant, 

 spreading, branched racemes. The foliage is of a lively green, and the flower 

 stems rise about two or three feet high. It is a lovely species, and well deserves 

 a place in every hot-house. 



Chirita Zevlanica. The flowers are in form and size much like a Gloxinia, 

 of about half the usual size. The outside is a pretty violet-purple, and the 

 inside white. It blooms very freely, and well merits cultivation. 



Achimenes patens. The flowers are of a rich rosy-violet, having a whitish 

 centre, with a wide dark crimson throat, and a spur similar to the larkspur. It 

 is very neat and handsome. 



