NEW ASW RA.RE PLANTS. 1G1 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed suce our last. 

 !. GARDENIA PANNEA, Cloth-ltaved. [Cot. Reg. 1952. 



CINCHONACE.T., GARDENIE.<E. PENTANDR1 A MONOGYNIA. 



The plant was introduced a few years back to the London Horticultural 

 Societies Garden ; it is a stove shrub from South America. The flowers are 

 single, two inches across, of a pale sulphur colour, not fragrant. Gardenia 

 in compliment to Dr. A. Garden, a Physician in South Carolina, who was a 

 correspondent of Linnaeus. 



2. GESNERIA SCEPTRUM, VAR IGNEA. Sceplre flowered. Pale flowered 



vaiiety. [But. Mag. 3576. 



GASNERIACE.E, DIDYNAMIA ANG rOSPERMI A. 



Introduced into this country from Brazil, and has bloomed in the Glasgow 

 Botanic Garden in 1836. The flowers are of a dull pale reddish-yellow, 

 with a darker edge to the limb. Guncm in compliment to the celebrated 

 John Gesner. 



3. LINUM MONOGYNUM. Monogynom Flax. {Bot. Mag. 3574. 



LINE*. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



It is now well known in the country by nurserymen and florists, but we 

 think it deserves extensive publicity, and therefore again bring it to the 

 notice of our readers. It is a most desirable plant for the greenhouse, or 

 if turned out into the open border in a warm situation in summer it will 

 bloom profusely. The large corymbs of fine white blossoms being very 

 showy, a bed of the plant makes a fine appearance, blooming all the summer 

 season. 



4. MAXILLARIA STEELII, Mr. Steel's. [Bot. Mag. 3573. 



ORCHIDACE.C, GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



A native of Demerara, from whence it was introduced last year by Matthew 

 Steele, Esq. It has bloomed in the collection of John Moss. Esq., Otterspool, 

 near Liverpool. The scape is short and single flowered ; the blossom rather 

 large, near an inch and a half across, fragrant, of a dingy reddish-yellow 

 colour. The perianth blotched with deep purple. Lip streaked with purple, 

 red and yellow. It is a singular flowering species, and a valuable addition 

 to this very interesting tribe of plants. Maiillaria from the'resemblance to 

 the Maxillae of insects. 



5. MEGACLINIUM MAXIMUM, Largest. [Bot. Mag. 1959. 



ORCHIDACE/E. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



A native of Sierra Leone, which has been introduced by Messrs. Loddiges's 

 in whose collection it bloomed in 1836. The Howers are not very interesting, 

 they are very small, produced along a sword shaped rachis, and are of a 

 greenish yellow, spotted with red. Megactinium from mtgas large, and Mine 

 a bed, in allusion to the broad sword-shaped bed or rachis of the blossoms. 



6. PERISTERIA CERINA, Waxen Dove Flower. [Bot. Reg. 1953. 



OBCIUDACE*. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Mr. Knight of King's Road, introduced this curious species from the Spa- 

 nish Main. It has bloomed in Mr. Knight's collection. The flowers are 

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