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Toone's Conductor. — Good pod, petals rather long and narrow, 

 flowers large, marks middling. 



Wakefield's Paul Pry. — Good pod and well-formed petals, flower 

 large, good colours, marks well. 



Woodhead's Spitfire.— Good pod and well-formed petals, colours 

 good, flower large, marks well. 



Woolley's Tally Ho. — Good pod, petals rather serrated, large 

 showy flower, and marks well. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Echites spi.endens. Splendid-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3976.) Apocyneae. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. Mr. Lobb, the collector of Messrs. Veitch's, of Mount 

 Radford Nursery, Exeter, last year sent them, from the Organ Mountains in 

 Brazil, this must beautiful and ornamental climbing plant, and it is considered 

 to be the finest flowering plant that has been imported from that part of the 

 world. It is a vigorous, shrubby, climbing plant, with leaves six to eight inches 

 long. The flowers are produced in profusion, iu axillary racemes of four to six 

 blossoms on each. The foim of the flower is between a fuunel-shaped and a salver- 

 shaped. The tube is about two inches long, white, spreading upwards to a flat 

 surface four inches across. The colour is a beautiful rose with the mouth of the 

 tube of a deep rosy red. It deserves a place in every collection ol hothouse plants, 

 and whether grown so as to train against an extended trellis, around a pillar, or 

 against a fancy formed wire trellis in a pot, it will be one of the most showy 

 plants in every such collection. From its vigorous growth, it appears very pro- 

 bable it would flourish well in a warm greenhouse or conservator'.'. The plant 

 which has bloomed with Messrs. Veitch's has been the admiration of all who 

 have seen it. 



Rondoletia Longiki.oua. Blue-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3977.) Rubiacea?. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. This very handsome flowering plant has also been 

 recently imported by Messrs. Veitch's from Brazil, with whom it bloomed during 

 the last summer in the hothouse. It is an evergreen, branching, shrubby plant, 

 with leaves about three inches long, blooming very freely. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in terminal, corymbous panicles, each having from thirty to forty blossoms. 

 The tube of each flower is about two inches long, slender, and the limb near an 

 inch across. The colour is a beautiful lavender-blue. It deserves a place in every 

 collection. At the exhibitions at Chiswick and the Surrey Zoological Gardens 

 during the past season, the Rondoletia odorata formed a prominent feature in the 

 best co lections of plants, its clusters of beautiful orange, red and yellow flowers 

 being universally admired : the present new species will be a fine contrast with it 

 wherever grown. 



Ipom^ea Tweediei. Mr. Tweedie's Ipomea. (Bot. Mag. 3978.) Convolvu- 

 laceae. Pentandria Monogynia. Mr. Tweedie sent this little neat flowering 

 species from Parana to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is a shrubby climbing 

 plant. Each flower is about an inch long, the limb being about three-quarters 

 of an inch across. The exterior of the entire flowers is of a lilac colour, and tho 

 interior a rich red purple. 



Maci.eania anc.ci.ata. Angled-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3979.) Ericen?. ])e- 



candria Monogynia. John M'Lean, Esq., a Peruvian merchant, sent seeds of 



this plant to his Grace the Duke ot Bedford at VVoburn, where it has bloomed 



in the stove. It is an evergreen shrub, of considerable beauty, deserving a place 



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