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MISCELLANY 



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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



New or Rare Plants. 



Boi.bophym.um umbei.latum. Umbei-fi.owered. (Bot. Mag. 4267.) Or- 

 chideae. A native of northern India, Nepal, and Khasiya Hills. It has re- 

 cently bloomed in the collection at the Roy;il Gardens, Kew. The flowers are 

 produced in an umbellate head of six to eisrht in each. Each blossom is about 

 an inch across. Sepals and petals pale yellow spotted with deep red. Lip white, 

 with purple spots. 



Clematis crispa. The crisp-flowered. (Bot. Reg, fiO.) Rantmculaceae. 

 Polyandria Polygynia. Much confusion has taken place relative to the proper 

 names of several species of Clematis. Dr. Lindley states the one now figured 

 as C. crispa is correct. It is a native of North America, hardy, climbing. It 

 blooms from May to November. The flowers are a very pale purple colour, 

 leathery, and very fragrant. Each blossom is about an inch and a half across, 

 the petals reflexing at their ends. Messrs. Maule and Sons, of Bristol, obtained 

 seeds of it from North America. 



Crotai.aria verrucosa. The Warted. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Lejjuminosre. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. A native of the East Indies, introduced many years 

 ago, but very scarce in this country. It flourishes in a warm greenhouse, and is 

 beautiful when in bloom. It is an annual, blooming freely in large spikes. 

 Each blossom is about three-cruaiters of an inch across. Corolla, vexillum 

 greenish-white, streaked with pale blue; wings yellowish, white at the basej 

 the rest blue, with the keel whitish, but yellowish at the point. It is well de- 

 serving a place either in the greenhouse or moderate stove. 



^schynanthus miniatus. The Vermilion. Gesneracea?. Didynamia An- 

 giospermia. (Bot. Reg.) Introduced from Java by Messrs. Veifxh. It is easy 

 of culture, doing best in a warm, damp house, and grown in a basket or on a 

 block of wood, as many of the orchideae are done. It blooms abundantly; the 

 flowers are of a brilliant vermilion colour, ami when the branches are allowed to 

 trail over the side of a basket, &c, it forms a carpet of scarlet flowers. Each 

 blossom is aliout an inch long. 



.flSaiPHii.A grandiei.ora. Great-flowered. Verbenarea?. Tetrandria Mono- 

 gynia. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Introduced into this country from Havannah. It 

 is a robust evergreen stove shrub. The flowers are tube-formed, each about an 

 inch long, and produced in large corymbous heads, of a pale yellow colour, and 

 blooming through the winter renders it more valuable. It is iu the collection of 

 Mr. Low. 



Gardenia Dkvonia. Thb Duke OP Devonshire. Cinchonaceae. Pentandria 

 Monogynia. (Bot. Reg. 63.) Mr. Whitfield imported this new species from 

 Sierra Leone. It is a vigorous hothouse shrubby plant. Each flower is single. 

 having a slender tube, about seven or eight inches long, very similar to the long 

 white-flowered Marvel of Peru. The mouth divides into a five-parted flower, 

 somewhat bell-shaped, with the lones recurving. The terminal portion of the 

 flower is about four inches across, somewhat like a small white Lily. They are 

 of a pure white at first, but change to a light straw colour. It has recently 

 bloomed iu the collection of -Mr. Gleiidinning, at Chiswick Nursery. 



OliPHIVM PRUTB80ENS. The Siiruhhy. Gentianaceae. Pentandria Mono- 

 gynia. (Pax. Mag Hot.) ( Synonym, C heron iu frutesceus.) An old inhabitant 



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