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plant it conies near to Maxilhiria Warreaua. The flower scape is very stout, 

 erect, bearing seven or eight flowers, each being from three to four inches across. 

 Petals and sepals of a rich chocolate-brown, darker up the centre and spotted 

 with a crimson-brown. The labellum is yellow with some partial streaks of 

 white. It is easy of cultivation and well deserves attention. 



Passu-lora Mmm.F.TONiANA. Mr. Middleton's Passion Flower. — (Pax. Mag. 

 Bot.) H. Middleton. Esq., collected seeds of this plant either in South America 

 or the West Indies, and presented them to his relative Mrs. Beckfurd, late of the 

 Firs, Mitcham, in Surrey, where it bloomed in the stove. It is a luxuriant 

 growing plant, having a dark green shining foliage, and produces numerous 

 fragrant blossoms. Sepals green profusely spotted with pinkish-purple. Petals 

 of a pinkish-white spotted similar to the sepals. Segments of the crown pale 

 purple mottled with white. Filaments and styles spotted with purple. Plants 

 may be had cheap. It grows rapidly and is easily propagated. 



Gesnp.ua discolor. Discoloured flowered. — (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Gesneraceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. From Rio Janeiro, and has bloomed in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Young, of Epsom, from April to October of 1841. It is a decided 

 shrubby plant, which loses its foliage for about tw > months during winter. The 

 stems rise to about a foot high, when they diverge into short downy branches, 

 which are terminated by long and spreading leafless panicles of numerous rich 

 scarlet flowers having a yellow inside. Each blossom is near two inches long. 

 The foliage is dark green above, smooth, of a pinkish-purple beneath. Each 

 leaf is laced, or fringed round the edges in a very delicate and elegant manner. 

 It is a most desirable species and deserves to be in every hot-house. Mr. 

 Young has saved a quantity of seed from the plant, so that plants may soon 

 be obtained. It grows freely in rich loam and heath-mould, plunged in a bark- 

 bed till June or July, it is then placed in a cooler house. 



NEW PLANTS, &C, SEEN IN NURSERIES. 



Ei'acris Oraegii. In bloom at Messrs. Hendersons, Pine Apple Place. 

 It is an hybrid, much like E. cerseflora or E. micrnphylla. The flowers are 

 small, of a pretty lively white, round the inside of which the dark stamens are 

 arranged, increasing its beautiful appearance. 



Brachysema iivbrida, a seedling raised between B. latifoliaand B.undulata. 

 The flowers are iu colour of a mixture of cream and deep red. It is an orna- 

 mental greenhouse plant, blooming in the collection of Mr. Low of the Clapton 

 Nursery. 



Cineraria, var. King ov Prussia. This handsome variety is in bloom at 

 Messrs. Hendersons. The flowers are of a very rich purple-crimson, about 

 three quarters of an inch across. 



Cineraria spLENninA, raised by Mr. Green at Sir E. Antrobus's, and is in 

 bloom at Mr. Young's, of the Epsom Nursery. It has the habit of C. Water- 

 housiana ; the flowers are of a deep purple criinson. 



Denbrobium Cambriogeanum. Is in bloom at Messrs. Loddiges ; the 

 flowers are large, of a fine deep orange, having a lip whose centre is of a dark 

 velvet-brown. 



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QUERIES. 



When is the best time, and how may I best succeed in raising Calceolarias 

 from seed ? — Philo. 



[Sow it as early as possible now, in a pot, using a very fine surface soil of 

 sandy peat and loam, equal parts — as the seed is very small, it is best, in order 

 to distribute itequally, to mix it with a little sand : after sowing it, just cover it 

 with soil, gently press the surface, and place the pot into a cucumber-frame, 

 where it must be kept shaded. When the plants appear to justify a removal 



