260 NEW AND RARE P1ANTS 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since our last . 

 1. £EREUS AKERMANN11. Ahermann's Mexican Ctreus. [Bot. Mag. 8598. 



CACTE/E. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This splendid flowering plant has generally been considered an hybrid 

 between C speciosa and speciosissirnus, but seeds of the original plant were 

 first sent to this country from Mexico. The flowers are as large a3 specio- 

 cissimus, of a fine reddish-scarlet colour, but destitute of the fine azure 

 colour which tinges the flower of that species. 



3. COWANIA PLICATA, Plaited-leaved. [Brit. Flower Gard. 4001. 



ROSACIA ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



An hardy evergreen, much branched shrub, a native of the uplands of 

 Mexico. The blossoms are about an inch and a half across, of o rich rosy 

 lilac colour. The flower in form very much resembles a single rose, of the 

 size stated- They are produced numerously, and make a showy appearance. 

 The plant is a valuable acquisition to our dwarf shrub ; the plant was raised 

 from seeds by Mr. Thomas Blair, Gardener to Mr. Clay, Stamford Hill. Cow- 

 ania, in commemoration of the late Mr. James Cowan, who introduced into 

 this Country a number of interesting plants from Mexico and Peru. 



3. CYPR1PEDIUM PURPURATUM. Purple stained Lady's slipper, 



[Bot. Peg. 1991. 



ORCHIDACEVE, GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 



This new species has been recently introduced into this country by Mr. 

 Knight, of King's Road, Chelsea, from the Malayan Archipelago. It has 

 bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges's of Hackney Nursery. Its 

 purple flower has a very pretty appearance. The foliage is very much like 

 that of C. venustum. 



'1. GESNERIA LATER1TIA, Brhk-coloured flowered. [Botanist. 



GESNERIACEJE. DIDYNAMIA, ANGIOSPERM1A. 



This species is a native of Brazil, received from that country to the London 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, in 1832, and has bloomed in the plant stove 

 at that place. The flower stem rises about two feet high, producing a number 

 of brick-red flowers, each about an inch a half long. This species has, till 

 very recently, been considered to be Gesnera Sellowii, but it is now ascer- 

 tained not to belong to the section of Gesnera, to which G. Sellowii belongs, 

 but to that of G. bulbosa. Gesneria, so named in compliment to Conrad 

 Gesner of Zurich, who died in 1565. 



5. GESNERIA LINDLEYI, Dr. Livdley's Gesneria. [Bot. Mag. 3602 



SYNONYM, G. RUTILA, var ATUOSANGIUNEA. 



This handsome flowering species is a native of Brazil. It differs from G, 

 rutila in many particulars That species has oxillary, solitary, flowers, and 

 1ms a wider mouth. The hypogynons glands are only two, whereas in G. 

 I.indleyii they are constantly five. The flowers of this latter species are of 

 ;i bright scarlet colour, each about an inch and a quarter long ; they are 

 produced numerous on a raceme of near two feet long The flower stem, 

 rises from three to four feet high. 



