282 MISCELLANY OK NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



jEschinanthus hadicans. A stove plant. The flowers grow in terminal 

 clusters, tube-shaped. A dull red colour, with the limbs whitish, streaked with 

 purple inside. It is an abundant bloomer, very showy. It is in Messrs. Veitch's 

 collection. 



Aonostus sinuata. A handsome evergreen woody erect plant, a native of 

 New Holland. The leaves are usually about six to eight inches long, oblong. 

 The flowers are produced in large panicles of twelve or more in each. A sepa- 

 rate blossom is an inch long. Their prevailing colour is, when open, the most 

 vivid orange scarlet ; the segments are pale yellow at the tips and a shining 

 black or brown colour at the base. The flowers are peculiarly singular in form 

 and colour, very handsome, borne in profusion, and render it one of the most 

 splendid plants that has been introduced. It is a greenhouse plant, and where 

 a plant of its dimensions, three or four feet high at least, can be grown, it 

 ought to be therein. It, has been in this country several years, and in several 

 collections, but apptars only just now bloomed for the first time. It may be 

 procured at a very reasonable price. 



Barkehia Lindleyana. Dij. Lindi.ey's. Orchidacea). Gynandria Mo- 

 nandria. (Pax. Mag. L5ot.) The flowers are produced in long spikes. Each 

 blossom two inches in diameter. Sepals and petals a beautiful rosy-crimson. 

 Labellum oblong, a little more than an inch long. The upper half rosy-crim- 

 son, with a striking white spot in the centre; the lower half is a deep crimson. 

 It is very handsome. 



Bhassavoi.a Dicbyana. Mr. Dunn's. Orchidacese. Gynandria Monau- 

 dria. From Honduras, and has bloomed in the collection of K. V. Digby, Esq., 

 at Minsterne, in Dorsetshire. The flowers are very large, sepals and petals five 

 inches across, greenish yellow. Lip about three inches across, much fringed, 

 yellowish-white. They are peculiarly sweat. It well merits a place in the 

 stove. 



Cai.ycotomk si'inosa. The Spiny. Fubaceio. Monadelphia Decandria. (Bot. 

 Keg. 55.) Synonyme Cytisus Spinosa. A pretty shrub, will stand the usual 

 winters. It blooms most profuse, flowers a rich yellow. lias bloomed in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Chikita Moonii. A new species raised from seed in the Kew Gardens, it has 

 not yet bloomed, but in habit appears to resemble C. Zei/laiiica, and hasobvate- 

 acute leaves, about the sine of those of that kind. 



Clematis smii.acii'oi.ia. Smii.ax-i.eaved. (Bot. Mag. 4259.) Introduced 

 by Messrs. Veitch's from Java. The plant is a climber, extending to a great 

 length. The leaves are large, each eight or nine inches long, and five broad. 

 The flowers are produced in paoicled terminal racemes, they are about an 

 inch long ; sepals ierle\ing quite back, they arc of a glossy black ; the numerous 

 pistils are white and silky. It will make a fine conservatory or greenhouse 

 climber. 



Cochlea HI A acaui.is. Found wild, according to Brotero, on the basaltic 

 hills near Lisbon, and occasionally on the limestone formation of Estramadura. 

 Desfontaines also met with it in Barbary. A beautiful rock plant lor shady 

 situations ; its flowers are of a clear lilac, and the foliage is of a delicate green 

 colour. It propagates itself by seeds, and by runners which throw out roots 

 abundantly into the damp soil. It is a hardy little annual, growing in any rich 

 garden soil, am] blooming from April to October. It requires rather a moist 

 situation. —Hurt. Sac. Jour. 



CiFRlPEDlVM Iuai'KAnum. Irapean. Ladi's SilPPBB, Cjpripedeae. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. The flower is a rich yellow, with slight spots, and two 

 red blotches on the labellum. The figure here given is four inches across, but 

 the flower usually grows to double the size. The plant is at present in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society. It is a noble species. Mr. Linden has 

 discovered in Caraccas a species that has flowers from fifteen to twenty inches 

 long ; the petals are drawn out into narrow straps of such length. 



Daphne Fohtdni. A small downy-branched shrub, sent by Mr. Fortune 



