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Gloxinia tubifi.ora. Tube-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3971.) Gesneriacea?. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. It was sent from Buenos Ayres by Mr. Tweedie, 

 (who probably had it from South Brazil,) to the Glasnevin Botanic Garden. It 

 seems to have nearly as strong a claim to be considered a Gesneria as a Gloxinia, 

 appearing to unite the two genera. The flowers are produced in panicles, 

 numerous. Each blossom is of a pure white, about four inches long, tubular, 

 curving upwards ; the limb is much in the form of the Petunia nyctiginiflora, 

 the common white one, and the flower terminating with so broad, a pure white, 

 and is very showy. It is a very interesting and pretty plant, well meriting a 

 place in every stove. 



SiphocampylUs betul^folius. Birch-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3973.) Lobe- 

 liaceae. Pentandria Monogynia. Sent from the Organ Mountains by Mr. 

 Gardner, and has recently flowered at Kew for the first time in this country. It 

 is somewhat similar in its habit to S. bicolor. Each flower is about three inches 

 long, of a beautiful vermilion red, with a deep yellow limb. It is a very good 

 addition to our collections. 



Azalea Indica. — Double red. We noticed this beautiful kind in a former 

 number, having seen it in bloom. It is of Chinese origin. Each flower about 

 two inches long and two across, very double, and of a rich red colour. A fine 

 plant is in the collection of William Wells, Esq., of Redleaf. It may be had of 

 the nurserymen celebrated for the tribe, as Mr. Waterer, Mr. Smith, and others. 



Indigofera Dosua, the Dosua Indigo. (Bot. Reg. 57.) Leguminosae. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. From the East Indies. It has bloomed in the garden 

 of the Lomlon Horticultural Society. It appears to be a shrub sufficiently hardy 

 to stand an ordinary winter in the open border, where it blooms in July and 

 August. If kept in the greenhouse it blooms early in the spring. It forms a 

 straggling bush, producing a profusion of bright rose-coloured flowers, very 

 ornamental. It deserves a place in every shrubbery. 



Helleborus Olympicus, Olympian Hellebore. (Bot. Reg. 58.) Ranun- 

 culaceae. Polyandna Pentagynia. A native of the Bithynian Olympus, from 

 whence it was sent to the London Horticultural Society. It is a hardy herba- 

 ceous plant. Each flower is about two inches across, whiter than the Christmas 

 Rose. 



Statice monopetala, var. Denudata. — Sent from Leyden to the Horticul- 

 tural Society. It is nearly hardy, blooming freely in the autumn in the open 

 border. Each flower is about half an inch across, produced numerously in panicles 

 of a pretty rosy-pink colour. 



PLANTS NOTICED IN THE BOTANICAL REGISTER, BUT NOT FIGURED. 



Dendrobuui sanguinoi.entum. — Sent to Sion House collection from Ceylon. 

 It is a beautiful species, with pendulous stems, of a delicate purple when young, 

 as are the leaves too. The flowers are large, of a pretty fawn colour, with the 

 tips of the segments and lip stained with a deep rich violet. There is a scarlet 

 spot in the centre of the lip. There is a variety of this species, without the 

 violet spots, having larger flowers, which has also bloomed at Sion. 



Oncidiuji baubatum. — Sent from Pernambuco to the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 

 den, where it has bloomed. The flowers are produced in graceful panicles. The 

 lip is bearded, of a bright yellow colour. The side lobes too are yellow. The 

 middle lobe is fringed and spotted with crimson. 



Vanilla Palmarum. — An orchideous plant which inhabits the palm tree. It 

 has just flowered, for the first time in Europe, in Messrs. Loddiges's collection. 

 The (lowers aie pale green, about two inches long. 



Dendrouium compressum. — A native of Ceylon, and has bloomed in the 

 Sion Collection. The flowers are of a middle size, yellow, produced on stems 

 about four inches high. 



Drymonia punctata. — Sent from Guatemala to the London Horticultural 

 Society. The plant is of the habit of a Siuningia, and has a creeping stem. The 



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