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PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since our last. 



1. Acropera Loddigesii, Mr. LocUliges' Acropera. (Bot. Mag. 3563.) 

 Natural Order, Orcliidaceae. Linnaran Class, Gynandria ; Order, JMonandria. 

 Synonym ; Maxillarfa galeata. The flowers of this plant are very singularly 

 handsome : they are produced numerously in large pendant racemes, each 

 flower is about an inch and a half across. Sepals of a pretty brownish-yellow. 

 Lip of the same colour. Column, greenish-yellow spotted with red. The 

 plant was introduced into this country by Mr. George Loddiges, from Xalapa 

 of Mexico, and has bloomed in Mr. Loddiges' collection, and in that of the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden. It merits a place in every collection of Orchideous 

 Epiphytes. Acroptra, from akros, the extremity, and pern, bejond, alluding to 

 the little saccate appendage at the tip of the Labellum. 



2. Anagallis Monelli, Yar. Celacina. Lilac flowered Italian Pimpernel. 

 (Brit. Flow. Gard. 377.) Primulacea?. Pentandria Monogynia. This very 

 handsome flowering variety has been raised between A Monelli and A Fruti- 

 cosa. It has flowered in the collection of the Hon. \V. T. H. F. Strangways, 

 Abbotsbury Castle, Dorsetshire. The flowers are of a rosy, lilac colour, about 

 the size of A. fruticosa. It is a very pleasing variety, well meriting a place 

 in every collection. This as well as its parents are very beautiful flowering 

 plants for a bed in the flower garden during summer, where they make a 

 most brilliant display. Botanists, in general, seem now agreed, that the A. 

 Monelli and A. Grandiflora are nothing more than mere varieties. Anagallis, 

 from anngelen, to laugh, applied by the ancient Greeks to a plant beneflcial in 

 diseases of the liver. 



3. Begonia monoptera. Single Winged. (Bot. Mag. 3564.) Begoniacese. 

 Monascia Polyandria. Mr. Otto, of the KoyalBerlin Garden, has most oblig- 

 ingly sent over to this country several highly, interesting, and ornamental 

 species of Begonia. The present species is very handsome. The flowers are 

 white, produced numerously in a terminal raceme. The stems and leaf stalks 

 are of a light red colour, as is the under side of the leaves. The plant is a 

 native of Brazil, from whence it was sent by Mr. Deppe. Begonia in compli- 

 ment to M. Begon. 



4. Cereus serpentinus. Serpent-like. (Bot. Mag. 3566.) Cacleaj. Ico- 

 sandria, Monogynia. Mr. Mackay of the Norwich Nursery, purchased the 

 very fine collection of succulents formerly belonging to Mr. Hitchin, and the 

 present species has bloomed with Mr. Mackay. It is a night blooming species, 

 the flowers remaining expanded about as long as C. Grandiflorus. The 

 flowers are of a pale whitish flesh colour inside, and a reddish black colour 

 outside. The tube is about four inches long. Cereus, from cerais, pliant, 

 alluding to the shoots. 



5. Ceropegia stapeliikormis. Slapelia-Iike. (Bot. Mag. 3507.) As- 

 clepiadea*. Pentandria Digynia. This most curious flowering plant has 

 bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it had been sent from Kew 

 Gardens. It is thought to be a native of the East Indies, and requires a hot- 

 house temperature. The stems very much resemble those of a Stapelia. The 

 flowers are very singular. Corolla two inches long ; tube curved, expanded 

 upwards to form the limb, which is cut into five segments, they are dark 

 purple outside, white and hairy within. The tube is of a greenish white, 

 much spotted with deep purple. The five segments of the corolla curve 

 backwards, and the sides reflexed, so that the upper side having the form of 

 a sharp keel, presenting a most singular appearance. Ceropegia, from heros, 

 wax, and ]>ege, a fountain. 



6- Ciihyseis compacta. Dwarf Chryseis. (Bot. Reg. 1943.) Papaye- 

 racea?. Icosandria Tetragynia. Synonym. Eschscboltzia, compacta. The 

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