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PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Anisanthus. — Plant's variety. This very handsome variety is the produce 

 of seed from Anisanthus splendens, and Gladiolus Colvillii, and was raised by 

 Mr. Joseph Plant, Florist, of Cheadle, in Staffordshire. It requires a treat- 

 ment in all respects similar to Ixias Antholyzas, and the Cape Gladioli, viz., 

 be kept in a greenhouse or cool frame, and potted in a mixture of sandy loam, 

 leaf mould, and a little peat. The best time for potting is October ; be then 

 placed in a cool frame from frost, and when the pots are well filled with roots, 

 be taken into the greenhouse for blooming. Its fine spikes of rich scarlet flowers 

 produce a beautiful effect. Mr. Plant has for several years paid especial atten- 

 tion to hybridizing the tribes of plants above named, and certainly has succeeded 

 in producing some not only very handsome, but most singular kinds. In the 

 present instance one of the parents is an hybrid, viz., Gladiolus Colvillii. He 

 has raised some seedlings hybridized between the very distinct genera Amaryllis 

 and Gladiolus. They hive not yet bloomed, but the roots, Mr. Plant states, are 

 neither bulbs nor scales, but something of both. Mr. Plant deserves the especial 

 thanks of every lover of the beautiful tribes named, for his great attention to the 

 improvement in raising so many additions by hybridizing. 



Begonia hydrocotylifolia. — Pennywort leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3968.) Bego- 

 uiaceae. Monoecia Polyandria. A hot-house species, sent to the Kew collection 

 from the Botanic Garden at Berlin. The stem is creeping, succulent, perennial, 

 short and robust. The flower stems rise to about a foot high, and its blossoms 

 are of a deep rose colour. 



Illicium heligiosum. — Sacred Aniseed Tree. (Bot. Mag. 3965.) Magno- 

 liaceae. Polyandria Polygynia. Dr. Siebold lately introduced it from Japan into 

 Holland, from whence a plant was sent to Kew Gardens, where it has bloomed 

 in great perfection in the greenhouse, the plant being about a yard high. It is 

 stated that in its native country it attains the size of a large cherry tree. The 

 flowers are produced either solitary or in pairs at the axils of the leaves, of a 

 yellow-green, destitute of fragrance. In size and form very similar to the well 

 known I. floridanum. By the Japanese the present species is held sacred ; 

 they strew wreaths of it and branches over the tombs of theii friends, and their 

 priests burn the bark as a perfume upon the altars of their deities. The public 

 watchmen make a singular use of the bark when powdered. Tubes, graduated 

 at the outside, are filled with it, and being lighted at one end burn so gradually 

 and uniformly, that when it is reduced to a certain point the watchmen strike 

 the hour upon a bell, in order to announce it to the public. 



Small flowered Shew Cereus. — Mr. Scott, gardener to C. Barclay, Esq., of 

 Bury Hill, cultivates this plant under the name Cereus coccineus ; the true one 

 of botanists, it is stated, it is nut, but an hybrid the origin not now known. The 

 flowers are of a fine rich crimson-red. Each bloom is about three inches across 

 when full blown, and in form like the pale flowered C. speciosus. Its small, 

 neat formed, brilliant flowers render it deserving a place in every collection of 

 Cacteae. 



Epidendrum lancifoj.ium. — Lance-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 50.) Orchidacea?. 

 Gynandria Monandria. It has lately been imported from the high land of 

 Mexico and Guatemala It has much the habit of K. coehleatum. The petals 

 and sepals are of a pretty pale yellow. The lip of a similar ground colour 

 streaked with deep purple. Each flower is about an inch and a half across. 



Geranium erianthum. — Woolly-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 52.) Geraniaceae. 

 Monadelpbia Decandria. Seeds of this plant were sent from North- We»t 

 America, by Mr. Dyer, to the London Horticultural Society, in whose garden it 

 profusely flowered dining last June and July. It is a hardy, robust, perennial plant. 

 Each flower is a little more than an inch across, of a rosy-purple colour. Like 

 many others of the family it is a very suitable plant for a rock-work, where such 

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