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neat, graceful, and interesting shrubby greenhouse plant, from the Swan River 

 colony. Under its latter name we noticed it in a recent number, having seen it 

 beautifully in bloom last autumn. It grows freely in a rich brown peat and leaf 

 mould. Cuttings of the young wood, being a little firm at the base, very soon 

 strike root in sand. It blooms through autumn and winter, and deserves a place 

 in every greenhouse. The flowers are produced in long terminal racemes, white 

 tinged with pink. The outside of the blossoms, before expanding, are pink. 

 Each blossom is near half an inch across. The foliage is heath-like in appear- 

 ance. It is said to grow naturally in swampy land, much resembling the 

 Spirese frutex (S.hypericoides), growing seven or eight feet high, and in summer 

 forms a delightful shade to the traveller crossing the swamps. 



Goodetia albescens. — Whitish. (Bot. Reg. 9.) Ouogracea?. Octandria 

 Monogynia. A hardy annual, of a stiff and close mode of growth like CEnolhera 

 densirlora. It grows about a foot and a half high. The flowers are blush, 

 shading off to nearly a white centre. Each blossom is about an inch and a half 

 across. 



Loaza Pbntlanqica. — Mr. Pentland's. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Loasaceae. Poly- 

 adelphia Polyandria. It appears to be a herbaceous climbing, or trailing peren- 

 nial plant. It is a native of Peru. The appearance of the plant is somewhat 

 like L. laterita, but having a rich green foliage, clothed with strong stinging 

 hairs. The flowers, too, in size and form are like those of L. laterita, but of 

 much deeper and decided red colour. 



Mimulus roseus, VAK. Maci.ainiani s. — Mr. Maclain's Monkey Flower. This 

 very pretty variety has been raised by Mr. Maclain, Florist, Harold's Cross, near 

 Dublin. The flowers are of a rich deep rose, with a dark crimson centre, the 

 mouth of the corolla being an inch and a half across. It deserves a place in 

 every flower garden in summer, where we doubt not it will flourish freely. Mr. 

 Maclain grows it in the bark stove, and placed in a pan of water. 



Maxij.j.aria Skinnf.ri. This very noble flowering Maxillaria has at length 

 bloomed in the collection of the Rev. John Clowes, of Broughton, near Man- 

 chester, with a vigour and beauty that could not be exceeded in its native situ- 

 ation. The flowers actually measured upwards of six inches across. The sepals 

 too are about an inch and a half across, of a pure white, faintly tinged with 

 crimson at the base. The petals are of a more rosy hue, while the lip is almost 

 covered with spots and streaks of a most brilliant carmine. The column is pure 

 white at the point, and crimson spots at the base. It is a native of Guatemala, 

 and is another of the brilliant discoveries of Mr. Skinner, who after an absence 

 of four years in the most glorious countries of what is termed the JS'ew World, 

 has lately returned once more in safety to the shores of his native land, in which 

 Mr. Bateman observes, there is scarcely a collection of any note that is not 

 indebted to his enterprise and generosity. Another, M. Skinneri, has formerly 

 been described, but the present species which Mr. Bateman has named, in com- 

 pliment to Mr. Skinner, is far surpassing it in beauty. 



Ci.ebodendron Calamitosum. At Messrs. Henderson's we lately saw this 

 plant in proluse bloom in the plant stove. The flower is white, an inch and a 

 half long and one broad, similar to and produced as numerously as a Syringa 

 bush does, in terminal racemes of ten or twelve in each ; the plant was literally 

 covered with its pretty flowers. 



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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Lucui.ia gratissima. — In a former number of the Fi.oricui,tukal 

 CabInbt I saw Luculia gratissima recommended by the Conductor. I procured a 

 plant, but am at a loss now how to treat it in the best manner so as to bloom it 



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