260 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



flowers are of a pale cream colour dotted and spotted with violet. The lobes are 

 deeply fringed and give the flowers a very interesting appearance. It has 

 bloomed in the stove in the Chiswick garden. 



Octomeria grandifi.ora. — An orchideous plant fiom Brazil to Messrs. Lod- 

 diges. The flowers are about four times as large as those of O. Baueri, of a 

 pale yellow colour. 



NEW PLANTS NOTICED IN NURSERIES, &C. 



At Mr. Low's, Clapton Nursery. 



Ixora barbata. — To this beautiful family of plants this is a very valuable 

 addition ; the flowers are white, which, when well grown in contrast with the 

 scarlet, orange, and fltsh-coloured kinds, will strikingly add to the beauty of 

 the group. 



Begonia coccinea. — This will be a valuable acquisition to the singular bloom- 

 ing tribe ; the flowers are scarlet. 



Allamanda grandiflora. — The A. cathartica; with its large, deep, yellow 

 flowers produced in such profusion, is now generally known, and certainly de- 

 serves a place in every plant stove. This new species is from India ; the foliage 

 is beautiful, and it merits culture for that alone, but when, however, as its spe- 

 cific title imports, it is adorned with splendid flowers, it gives it peculiar charms. 

 It has not yet bloomed with Mr. Low. 



Scutellaria spi.kndens. — There is something peculiarly pretty in the form 

 and arrangement of the spikes of flowers in all the kinds ; this new species we 

 understand is very beautiful, the flowers are scarlet and yellow. 



Brachysema platyptera. — The B. latif'olia, a handsome climbing species, is 

 now well known and esteemed ; this new species is much like it in general ap- 

 pearance, but the flowers are larger, and of a bright crimson-scarlet colour, much 

 more beautiful. 



Rossi^a pauciflora. — All the species of this pretty pea-formed flowering 

 plant are justly esteemed, and deserve to be grown in every greenhouse. This 

 new s-pecies is very handsome, the wings are of a rich yellow, and there is a 

 striking contrast, a bright red keel rendering it very handsome. 



Calauium pictum. — All the kinds of this Arum-like family have fine foliage; 

 this species, however, is strikingly beautiful. The fine green is adorntd with 

 numerous bright silvery marks, rendering it very distinctively pretty. 



Tetranthera Japonica. — This is a very handsome evergreen shrubby plant 

 of the natural order of Lauraceae (Laurel.) The leaf is like a middle-sized 

 Magnolia leaf, edged with brown ; Dr. Siebold sent it from Japan. It deserves 

 a place in every shrub border, or against a conservative wall. 



We have lately had, and seen others, the Acacia Kermesin a in profuse bloom ; 

 its beautiful foliage and long conspicuous stamens of a fine deep crimson, ren- 

 dered it very strikingly pretty, and worth a place in every greenhouse or conser- 

 vatory. It is of easy culture, rapid growth, and a free bloomer. 



Angelonia grandiflora. — We have before noticed fine specimens of this 

 plant exhibited at the Chiswick shows early in the season, and from that time to 

 the present they appear to increase in beauty; their numerous long spikes of 

 pretty lilac-blue flowers being pretty, and emitting a rich perfumed fragrance. 

 It deserves to be in every greenhouse. 



Mr. Groom's Nurseiy, Ctapham Rise. 



Mr. Groom's very extensive and well-cultivated collection of Lilium lancifo- 

 lium, and its varieties, punctatum, rubrum, and speciosum, we recently had the 

 pleasure of seeing, and scarcely anything more beautiful in the floral tribe can 

 be imagined than the collection exhibited when in full bloom, especially some 

 specimens of rubrum and speciosum ; the flowers of a rich mulberry colour, be- 

 coming gradually lighter to the edges of the petals, and the entire studded with 





