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PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Gloxinia Speciosa, var. Macrophylla/variegata. — Large variegated leaved 

 var. (Bot. Mag. 3,934.) Gesneriaceae. Didynamia Angiospermia. Sent from 

 the Organ Mountains, Brazil, by the collector of Messrs. Veitch's, of Mount 

 Radford Nursery, Exeter, with whom it has bloomed, and was exhibited at the 

 London Horticultural Society Meeting in October last. The foliage is very 

 large, and has very distinct pale greenish white veins, which have an interesting 

 appearance. The Mowers are numerously produced, very large, of a rich purple, 

 dark inside, with a broad light streak down the middle of the lower part of the 

 tube. It is a very desirable variety of the justly esteemed Gloxinia Speciosa, 

 and deserves to be in every collection. 



Hibiscus Cameroni. Mr. Cameron's Hibiscus. — (Bot. Mag. 3,936.) Mal- 

 vaceae. Monadelphia Polyandria. From Madagascar, sent to Mr. Cameron, 

 Curator of the Birmingham Botanic Garden. It blooms freely in the green- 

 house during the greater part of summer. Each flower is about live inches 

 across, of cream-colour tinged with deep rose, and each petal having a rich 

 purple spot near the base. 



Oxai.is Martiana. Dr. Martius"s Wood Sorrel. — (Bot. Mag. 3,938.) 

 Oxalideae. Decandria Pentagynia. From South Brazil. It has bloomed in the 

 Glasnevin Botanic Garden. It is an herbaceous perennial plant, each scape 

 bearing numerous rose-coloured flowers, about three quarters of an inch across. 



Acacia Diptera, var. Erioptera. Two winged Acacia. — (Bot. Mag. 3,939.) 

 Leguminosae. Polygamia Moooecia. A native of Swan River Colony, sent by 

 Mr. Drummond to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is similar in habit to A. 

 platyptera. The flowers are numerously produced, of a pale yellow colour, each 

 being about half an inch in diameter. It is a neat and pretty variety. 



Thuja Filiformis. Weeping Arbor Vitae. — (Bot. Reg. 20.) A beautiful 

 hardy tree with long slender weeping branches. The fiuest plant perhaps in 

 Europe is in the Arboretum at Kew. It is about three yards high. 



Tiuchosma Suavis. Sweet-scented Hair Orchis. — (Bot. Reg. 21.) Orchi- 

 daceac. Gynandria Monandria. From the East Indies to Chatsworth, where it 

 has bloomed. Sepals and petals white with a tinge of yellow ; the Labellum is 

 white streaked with red, having a yellow tip. Each flower is about two inches 

 across, and has a strong perfume. The wood cutting natives are fond of adorn- 

 ing their hair with its blossoms. 



Echeveria rosea. Rosy Echeveria. — (Bot. Reg. 22.) Crassulacese. De- 

 candria Pentagynia. A native of Mexico, a pretty herbaceous greenhouse 

 species. The spikes of rosy coloured flowers are about five inches long. 



Clethra quercifolia. Oak-leaved. — (Bot. Reg. 23.) A native of Jalapa, 

 in Mexico. About as hardy as Clethra arborea, and flourishes with the same 

 kind of treatment. The flowers are white, produced in panicled racemes. It is 

 a very handsome plant and well deserves a place wherever it can be admitted. 



Mina lobata. Lobe-leaved. — (Bot. Reg. 24.) Convolvulacea?. Pentandria 

 Monogynia. From Mexico, an annual plant : when without flowers it has every 

 resemblance to Mme of the common Ipomaeas, but when the leaves are taken 

 oft" and nothing but bloom left, it loses all appearance of the Cunvolvulaceae, 

 and the flowers are arranged in racemes in the scorpioid manner of a Borage. 

 The corolla is campanulate-ventricose, near an inch long. When the fluwers 

 first appear they are of a rich crimson, but gradually change to orange and 

 eventually to yellow. 



Houi.lf.tia Brocklehurstiana. Mr. Brocklehurst's Houlletia. — (Pax. Mag. 

 Bot.) From Brazil, introduced into this country by J. II. VVanklyn, Esq., of 

 Crumpsall House, near Manchester. It filbt bloomed in the collection of T. 

 Brocklchumt, Esq., the Fence, near Macclesfield. In general appearance of the 



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