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PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since our last. 



1. Aspasia variegata, Variegated flowered. (Bot. Reg., 1907.) Natural 

 Order, Orchidaceas ; Class, Gynandria ; Order, Monandria. This very neat and 

 pretty flowering species has bloomed for the first season in this country, in the 

 collections of R. Bateman, Esq., and of Mr. Knight, King's Road, Chelsea, during 

 the present year. It is an inhabitant of the tropical part of South America, in its 

 native state. The plant is of easy culture. The petals are yellow at the edges, 

 and green up the middle, streaked and spotted with red ; the labellum is white 

 spotted and streaked with violet. Each flower is upwards of two inches across • 

 the flowers are delightfully fragrant in the morning. The plant merits a place in 

 every collection of Orchideous plants ; being of easy culture, it is probable it may 

 soon be procured at a low cost. Aspasia, from aspasomia, I embrace; alluding to 

 the column embracing the labellum. 



2. Amaryllis Psittacina, hybrida. Hybrid variety of the Parrot Ama- 

 ryllis. (Bot. Mag., 3528.) This splendid variety was raised in the hothouse of 

 William Griffin, Esq., South Lambeth, London; it is an hybrid between A. John- 

 sonia and A. psittacina. It has bloomed in the stove at the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden. The flowers are very splendid, usually four flowers are produced in a 

 scape. Each flower is near six inches across. The petals are white, with a small 

 portion of green at the lower part, the edges and tips have a broad portion of fine 

 crimson, and numerous crimson stripes run up the petals ; altogether it is a most 

 beautiful flowering variety, well meriting a place in every stove. 



3. Begonia Fischeri, Dr. Fischer's. (Bot. Mag., 3532.) Begoniaceas ; 

 Moncecia; Polyandria. This pretty plant was sent from Berlin in 1835, to the 

 Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it bloomed in the spring of the present year-. 

 The flowers are of little interest. The foliage is smooth, when young of a bright 

 red, at the under side, paler at the veins, and a pretty pink above, having too a 

 peculiar silvery lustre, which remains upon the old leaves, which at that stage are 

 of a yellowish green on the upper side, and of a more pale red at the under side. 

 It is a very neat plant, and well deserves a place in the stove; like the other spe- 

 cies it is of easy culture. 



4. Bartonia aurea, Golden-flowered. (Brit. Flow. Gard., 357.) Loaseffi; 

 Polyandria; Monogynia. A very pretty flowering annual ; the flower stem rising 

 a iiint high. The plant produces a profusion of showy flowers, of a fine golden- 

 yellow colour. Each blossom is about two inches and a half across. The plant is 

 a- native of California, from whence it was sent by Mr. Douglas to the London 

 Horticultural Society, in whose garden it recently bloomed. It delights in a shel- 

 tered and sunny situation, and is to be grown in a rich soil, where it will bloom pro- 

 fusely. The plant requires to be raised as a frame annual, and to be planted into 

 the border in May. 



5. Clintoniv puliiiella, Pretty Clintonia. (Bot. Reg., 1909.) Lobeli- 

 acea3 ; Syngenesia ; Mouogamia. A native of California, from whence it 

 was sent by Mr. Douglas to the London Horticultural Society. It is a pretty 

 flowering tender annual, of very humble growth, only rising a few inches higli. 

 The flowers are rather larger than Clintonia elagans, blue, with a broad white spot 

 at the centre, stained with a rich yellow. The flower is about half an inch across. 

 Its delicacy of growth will prevent its spreading rapidly through the country. 



6. Cyrtopodii'.m Willmorei, Mr. Willmore's. (Birmingham Bot. Gardens, 

 p. 4.) Orchidacea;; Gynandria; Monandria. The plant was discovered by Mr. 

 Henchman, in the vally of Cumanacoa, in the republic of Venezuela. The species 

 is of tcrristnal habit, growing among decayed vegetables. The leaves of the plant 

 grow more than six feet long in its native habit. The species has bloomed in the 

 \i-rv superb collection of John Willmore, Esq., Oldford, near Birmingham, having 

 i flower stem four feet six inches high, verj much branched, producing ■■< panicle 



