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PART IT. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since our last. 



1. Myanthus barbatcs; var. labello albo. Bearded Flywort, white tipped 

 variety. (Bot. Mag. 3514.) Orchidea:. Gynaudria Monandria. — A native of 

 Demerara, from whence it was introduced into this country, by Mr. Allcard, 

 Stratford Green, Essex. And iu the collection of that gentleman, it bloomed in 

 May, 1836. The flowers are produced upon a long and many flowered raceme. 

 Each flower is about two inches across, having narrow petals, of a dark green, 

 spotted with dark purple within, with paler spots on the outside. The lip is 

 fringed with numerous long white hairs. Altogether it is a very pretty and sin- 

 gular flowering plant, meriting a place in every collection. Alyanthits, from 

 muia, a fly; and anllios, a flower. The flowers look very much like a pressed 

 fly, when they are dried. 



2. P.eonia ai.biflora; var. Pottsii. Potts' Chinese Pa:ony. (Brit. Flow. 

 Gard. 351.) The late Mr. John Potts sent this very handsome variety from 

 China, in 1822. The flowers are of a large size, double, of a rich crimson co- 

 lour, and are 6y far the most splendid of all the varieties of albiflora. The 

 plant is quite hardy, and a profuse bloomer. In the garden of R. H. Jenkiuson, 

 Esq., Norbiton Hal!, Kingston, Surrey, it has bloomed very freely, having, this 

 season, about forty flowers upon a single plant. 



3. Sarracenia rubra, lied Side Saddle Flower. (Bot. Mag., 3515.) Sarra- 

 cenia; Polyandria Mqnogynia. A native of Louisiana, in the Southern United 

 States of America. The plant has often been introduced into this country, but 

 being very difficult in cultivation, has been lost; a plant, however, has bloomed 

 in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, March 183C. The flower scape rises 

 to about two feet high, producing one flower. The flower hangs in a drooping 

 manner; of a rich deep red colour, having a splendid appearance. The flower 

 is from two to three inches across. 



4. Streptanthus hyacinthoides, Hyacinth-flowered (Bot. Mag., 3516.) 

 Cruciferse; Tetradynamia SUiquosa. An annual plant, a native of the Texas, 

 where it was discovered by the late Mr. Douglas. The stem grows to about a 

 yard high, branched. The flowers are produced upon long racemes, bearing nu- 

 merous flowers, which hang in a pendulous manner; they are of a bluish-purple 

 colour. The flower much resembles a small hyaciuth blossom, but having very 

 narrow petals. The plant has bloomed in the Greenhouse of the Glasgow Bo- 

 tanic Garden. 



5. Strobil.vnthus Sabiniana, Mr. Sabine's Strobilanthus. (Bot. Mag. 

 3517.) Acanthacea,' ; Didynainia Acgiospermia. Synonym's, Kuellia Sabiniana, 

 R. argentea. R. macrocarpa, var. argentea. This pretty flowpring plant was 

 introduced into this country by Dr. Wallich. It is a native of Nepal. It re- 

 quires a hothouse temperature. Dr. Wallich named it in compliment to Joseph 

 Sabine, Esq , to whom Horticulture is very greatly indebted; we hesitate not to 

 say, that the present superior state of gardening, and the very extensive taste for 

 it which dow prt vails, owe, in a considerable degree, their rise to that gentleman. 

 The S. sabiniana grows three feet high, shrubby. The flowers are produced in ter- 

 minal spikes. The corolla is funnel shaped, lower part of the tube yellow, the 

 rest of a bright bluish-purple. It blooms the latter end of winter. 



G. Yucca DraCONIS, Dragon-tree-leaved Adam's Needle. (Bot. Reg., 1894.) 

 Lflilaces; HeXandria Monogym'a. A very pretty flowering species, cultivated 

 in the Nursery Establishment of Messrs Backhouses, York. It grows freely in 

 the open ground. The spikes of flowers rise about three feet higher than the fo- 

 liaee, producing an immense number of blossoms. The segments of the flower 

 expand much more in this species than any of the others, which adds very much 

 to its interest and beauty. The petals are of a greenish white, with the tips of 



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