90 *EW AND RARE PLANTS. 



sepals. Ckytit from chusis a melting. The pollen lnassses being as it wptr 

 fused together. 



•"i. Delphinium montasum. Mountain Larkspur. Ramtnculaceaj. Poly an - 

 dria Trigvnia. ( liot. Reg. 1 C J36.) Synonym. D, elatum. D, hirsutum. One 

 of the handsomest flowering species, a native of the Alps of Europe. It is a 

 hardy perennial, flowering from August to October: growing from five to seven 

 feet high. The plant is covered with soft green down, and the flowers are ol 

 a pale sky-blue, slightly tinged with purple. This is an old inhabitant of our 

 gardens, but. we have given these particulars in order, that our readers who 

 may possess the kind and not know its real name, may be able to do so. 



6. Daviesia ulicina, Furze-like. Leguminose. Decandria Monogynia 

 (Pax. Mag. of Bot.) Avery neat and handsome flowering greenhouse plant, 

 a native of New Holland, it well deserves a place in every collection. The. 

 plant tortus a very neat bush; the flowers are produced in vast profusion, and 

 are very neat and pretty, much resembling, but a little larger, than those of 

 the Eutaxia inyrtifolia. They are produced from April to June, and they are 

 ol a bright yellow with red centre. Daviesia so named in compliment to Rev. 

 Hugh Da\ies, F. L. S., a celebrated Botanist in Wales. 



7. Efidendruh ciilorou cf.oi, Green and White flowered. Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. This new species has bloomed in the collection of 

 John Allcard, Esq., in September. 1836. and by that gentleman imported 

 from Demerara ; the flowers are rather uninteresting in appearance ; they are 

 produced on a raceme of eight or ten upon each, about three quarters of an 

 inch across ; they are without scent ; sepals and petals green; lip white. 

 JEpidendrum. from e/i, upon ; and dendron, a tree. 



R. ErPHORHiA FULGENS, Fulgent flowered Ephorbiace;v. Dodecandria 

 Prigynia. (Pax. Mag. Bot. ) This very neat and handsome floweriug plant is a 

 native of Mexico, and has recently been introduced into this country. Jt has 

 bloomed in the select collection of Lucombe, Price, &c,. Exeter Nursery. It 

 is an elegaut ornamental Stove Plant ; branched upi ight. leafy', growing freely, 

 and blooming profusely ; the leaves at the ends of the shoots are of a pink- 

 ish purple colour at the underside, and of a dark green above ; the older 

 leaves wholly of a green colour ; the flowers are produced in groups o! threi> 

 or tour together in constant succession along the shoots ; each flower is near 

 half an inch across, of a bright red colour with a small yellow tube. The 

 brilliancy of the flowers, their vast porfusion, and elegance of the plant, 

 renders it a very desirable, and which ought to be in every collection of 

 hot house plants. It propagates very easily, and grows rapidly. Euphorbia, 

 so named in compliment to Euphorbus, a physician to Juba, king of Mauri- 

 tania, and who is said to have first used the plant in medicine. 



9. Gesneria Sri.lowi, Dr. Sellows Gesneira, Gesnerierr. Pidynamia. 

 Angiospermia. This very elegant flowering stove plant has been introduced 

 into this country from the Brazils, and has been specifically named after. 

 Mr. Sellow, a collector of plants, employed by the Prussian Government. 

 ft well deserves to be in every collection of hot house plants The flowers 

 are produced in a raceme, numerous upon each ; of a line scarlet colour. 

 Each flower is about three inches long. Gesneria in honour of Conrad Gesner, 

 a famous botanist of Zurich. 



10. LissoCHlLUS SPECIOSUS Mr. Griffin's Showy Lissochilus. Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) A native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 from whence it was imported by Mr. Griffin, of South Lambeth, London, in 

 whose collection it has bloomed. — It is one of the terrestrial Orchideae, which 

 flowers freely from May to August ; a hot house of moderate temperature 

 appears to suit the plant best. The flowers are produced upon a scale rising- 

 two feet high, of a line yellow colour. Each flowei is upwards of two inches 

 across. Like this tribe of orchideous plants, the present delights in a rich 

 loamy soil, mixed with peat and sand, the pot to have a good proportion ot 

 drainage, care being taken not to have too large a pot. 



