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of our greenhouses, and which, when grown properly, forms a dwarf branching 

 evergreen plant, which blooms freely and becomes a most showy object. The 

 flowers are produced in terminal branching heads, each blossom being near two 

 inches across, of a pretty rosy- lilac colour. 



Potentili.a M'Nabiana. Mr. M'N ab's. Rosaces. Icosandria Polyandria. 

 (Pax. Mag. Bot.) This variety was raised from seed by Mr. Menzies, gardener 

 to H. Edwards, Esq.. Hope House, Halifax. It is an hybrid, raised between 

 Patrosanguinea and Pleucochroa. It blooms very freely ; each blossom a little 

 more than an inch across, of a bright scarlet, with an orange centre. A very 

 pretty variety. 



Scutellaria incarnata. Flesh-coloured. Labial ». Didynamia Gymnos- 

 permia. (Bot. Mag. 42680 A neat and pretty greenhouse plant, a native of 

 Mexico. It grows about half a yard high, branching. The flowers are produced 

 in terminal many-flowered racemes; a deep rosy-purple tube, with a rich scarlet 

 pendant lip. Each blossom about an inch long. It is a pretty plant for the 

 greenhouse, and peculiarly so for the beds of the flower-garden during summer. 

 it is in Messrs. Veitch's collection. 



Stenocarpus Cunninghami, Mr. Cunningham's. Proteaceoe. Tetrandria 

 Monogyni.i. (Bot. Mag. 4'263.) Mr. A. Cunningham discovered this plant on 

 the banks of the Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, in Australia. The plant is very 

 suitable for a warm conservatory, and when in bloom is a most splendid object. 

 It has bloomed, for the first time in this country, during the past summer, at 

 the Glasgow and Birmingham Botanic Gardens. It is a handsome evergreen, 

 with glossy foliage, and forms a small branching tree, three or four yards high, 

 but no doubt it can be managed to flower in a much dwarfer state. The leaves 

 are pinnatifid, from one to two feet long. The flowers are produced in large 

 rays, several together forming a compound umbel. The blossoms are of a bril- 

 liant orange-scarlet, with laige, striking, golden-yellow stigmas, which give a 

 very beautifol contrast with the scarlet. At first, the three outer segments of 

 each umbel of flowers become deflexed. hanging down around the stem, and the 

 others stand [erect, which, with the golden stamens, &c, compose a striking 

 crown. It is singular and beautiful. 



Vanda Batohnni. Crimson and Yellow Vanda. Oichidaceae. Gynan- 

 dria Monandria. (Bot. Reg. 59.) Discovered in the Molucca Islands ; sent to 

 this country by Mr. Cuming. It has bloomed in Mr. Bateman's collection the 

 last summer. The flowers are produced in large erect spikes, a score or more of 

 them in each. A separate blossom is two inches and a half across; the under 

 side of a pretty rosy. crimson ; the upper s'de fine yellow, beautifully and nume- 

 rously blotched with crimson. A vi-ry magnificent species, deserving to be in 

 every collection. 



New Plants noticed, not figuked. 



Hoya campanulata. Bell-vormed Flowers. The leaves are not fleshy, as 

 the previously introduced kinds are. The flowers grow from the axils of the 

 leaves, on slender peduncles, in considerable quantities, and each separate blos- 

 som i* about three-quarters of an inch across, shining wax-like, greenish-yellow 

 or cream-coloured. It is an interesting climbing plant. Messrs. V eitch pos- 

 sess it. 



Liebigia spkciosa. (Synoinm Tromoedorffia specios i.) Messrs. Veitch re- 

 ceived this plant from Java. It is a soft-wooded stove plant. It blooms pro- 

 fusely. The flowt-rs are funnel-shaped, purple tube, sulphur-coloured throat, 

 and white spreading flat limb. It is a very pretty plant. 



Raphistkmma pui.chei.la. (Synonym Pergularia campanulata.) It is a 

 similar plant to the beautiful Stephanotis floribundus, the flowers being in most 

 respects like those of the Stephanotis, but of a larger size, and a [link streak 

 down the middle of each segment of the otherwise pure white flower. The 

 flowers are produced in large racemes, numerously. It is a neat climbing plant. 

 At Knight and Terry's, Chelsea. 



