282 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



in every collection. The leaves on the young shoots are considerably tinged with 

 red, the others of a deep creen. The flowers are produced at the angles of the 

 leaves, three together. Each blossom is about an inch long, tubular. The tube 

 is a bright red, and the limb yellow. They are produced very numerously. 



Aristoi,ochia gigas. Giant Birthwort. (Bot. Reg. 60.) Aristolochiaceae. 

 Sent from Guatemala to the London Horticultural Society. In its native country 

 it is well known under a name equivalent to Jew's Ear. It bloomed in the 

 garden at Chiswick lust summer, and is peculiarly adapted for training over a 

 trellis, &c. Each flower is about a foot across ; the ground colour is white, being 

 much veined and marked over the entire surface with a lavender-purple, the 

 centre forming a large dark chocolate coloured spot. Cuttings strike root freely, 

 and the plant grows rapidly. 



Godetia grandiki.ora. Large flowered. (Bot. Reg. 61.) Onograceae. 

 Octandria Monogynia. A native of the north-west coast of America. Seeds of 

 it were sent to the London Horticultural Society, and it has bloomed in the 

 Chiswick Garden. The flowers are the largest of any of the species introduced 

 into this country. It grows about two feet high, bushy, and blooms profusely ; the 

 flowers are white, delicately tinged with rose ; each blossom is about three inches 

 and a half across. It is a beautiful flowering annual, well deserving a place in 

 the flower garden. 



Ljei.ia PLATA. Yellow-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 62,) Orchidaceae. Gyuandria 

 Monandria. A native of Brazil, where it was discovered growing in rocky places. 

 The flowers are produced in a short racemous head, yellow, each bloom being 

 about an inch and a half across. The labellum has a few narrow streaks of red 

 on each side. 



Tillandsia rubida. Madder-coloured. (Bot. Reg. 63.) Bromeliaceae. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. A native of Brazil, and has bloomed with Messrs. Lod- 

 diges. The plant is diminutive, and the flower-stem rises about five inches 

 high, terminating with a hemispherical head of rosy-red flowers, the bracts are 

 of the same colour. Each blossom, tubular, is about three quarters of an inch 

 long. 



Oxalis rubrocincta. Red-edged. Wood Sorrel. (Bot. Reg. 64.) Oxali- 

 daceae. Decandria l'entagynia. From Guatemala to the London Horticultural 

 Society's garden, where it has bloomed in the greenhouse. The flowers are of 

 a bright yellow, each blossom being a little above half an inch across. 



Mi;sembrya>;theml Ji tricolor. Three-coloured flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) 

 Ficoidese. Icosandria Di-pentagynia. A very handsome flowered little annual 

 plant, growing nearly prosirate. The flowers are produced solitary, each on a 

 stem about four inches long, and being numerous, are very showy. It will be a 

 companion for the Portulaccas, either grown in pots in the greenhouse or open 

 border. It requires a treatment iu all respects as greenhouse annuals in general. 

 Seeds of it may probably be obtained of the London seedsmen. Each flower is 

 a little more than an inch across, of a deep rosy-pink colour, having a dark centre 

 of stamens. It merits a place in every greenhouse as a dwarf ornamental plant 

 for summer, adorning as well as to adorn the edge of a flower border, in a sunny 

 and sheltered situation, where it will form a carpet of lovely flowers. 



Acacia bifi.ora. Two-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Leguminosae. Poly- 

 gamia Mo'.ioecia. Mr. Low, of the Clapton nursery, received this pretty flower- 

 ing species from New Holland, in whose collection we have seen it in profus- 

 bloom. It is a low growing, slender, shrubby plant, and in order to make it 

 bushy, the leading shoots should have the points pinched off, to induce the pro- 

 duction of lateral ones. The blossoms are yellow, and appear in pairs or singly, 

 and form spikes at the extremities of the shoots. Each bloom is a little above a 

 quarter of an inch in diameter. 



Mr. Waterer, of Knapp Hill Xursery, this summer exhibited in his garden in 

 the Kiug's-road, Chelsea, numerous magnificent specimens of Rhododendrons 



