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the present species, obtained from the Birmingham Botanic Gardens ; but Mr. 

 Cameron, the curator, gives no account of its origin. The leaves are from four 

 to six inches across, slightly hairy, of a bright green. The flower-stems are 

 vigorous, and every portion of a very rich crimson-red colour, producing a bril- 

 liant effect. The flowers are produced in a branching panicle. Male Flowers, 

 five petals ; two are red, blush-coloured, suffused with a deeper tinge ; the 

 three others of a cream colour. Each flower is near two inches across. It is a 

 beautiful species, deserving a place in every plant-stove. 



Cuphea Strigulosa. Strigulose Cuphea. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Lythracea. 

 Dodecandria Monogynia. It grows wild at the foot of the Andes Mountains, 

 near Ibague, and has bloomed with Mr. Knight, of Chelsea, both in the stove 

 and in the open air. It appears to be about as hardy as Salvias, Verbenas, &c, 

 aud makes a pretty shrubby plant for the open border during the entire summer 

 season. Bv attention to stopping the leads of the main shoots, numerous 

 laterals are produced, and in proportion the plant becomes bushy, and increas- 

 ingly beautiful. The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes, each blossom 

 being near an inch long. The lower half (nearest the origin) is of an orange- 

 red, the other portion yellow, with green stripes. If grown in a sandy loam, not 

 too rich, and in a warm situated flower-border, it will, with due treatment, be 

 very interestingly ornamental. The flowers require to have full light. 



Dipladenia Crassinoda. Knob-jointkd. (Bot. Reg. 64.) Apocynacese. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. (Synonyms, Echites carassa, E. Crassinoides.) The 

 plant is a native of the Corcovado Mountain, near Rio Janeiro, being discovered 

 there by Mr. Gardner. It is a stove twining plant, requiring a similar treat- 

 ment to the Echites. We have noticed it on a former occasion, having seen it 

 at Mr. Low's, of the Clapton Nursery. The flowers are produced in terminal 

 racemes, several in each. A separate blossom, is about three inches ucross, of a 

 beautiful rose colour, with a yellow eye. The fine salver-shaped flowers pro- 

 duce a showy effect. It well deserves a place in the plant stove. It requires to 

 be kept rather dry in winter. 



Epidendrum Macrochilum var Roseum. Rose-coloured, Large-tipped. 

 (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Orchidacese. Gynandria Monandria. Within the last two 

 years several handsome varieties, of various shades of rose-colour, but dissimilar 

 in form, too, have been received from Guatemala, sent by Mr. Hartweg and 

 Mr. Skinner. The present variety has bloomed at Nonesuch Park Gardens, 

 near Cbeam, in Surrey. It is chiefly remarkable from other rose-coloured va- 

 rieties by having a perfectly flat surlace. The flowers are produced in erect 

 simple spikes. Sepals and petals of a dull purple, but green near their origin. 

 Lip large, of a beautiful rosy-lilac. Each flower is near three inches across. It 

 is a very interesting variety, well worthy a place in every collection. 



Gayiajssacia Pseudovaccinium. BlL.BERRY-l.IKE. ( Bot. Reg. 62.) Vac- 

 cinacese. Decandria Monogynia. (Synonyms, Andromeda coccinea, Vac- 

 cinium Braziliense.) It is said to be a native of the sandy plains of Brazil, 

 where it forms a shrub, growing from one to two feet high. In this country it 

 is found to be a hardy greenhouse branching shrub, and to be treated as Cape- 

 heaths are in soil, potting, situation, &c. The flowers are numerously produced 

 in axillary racemes, ten to twelve in each. The younger blossoms are a beau- 

 tiful orange-scarlet colour, and the older ones a rosy-red- Each flower is of a 

 globular form, nearly half an inch across. We remarked in a former Number 

 that we had seen the plant at Messrs. Loddiges's, and that it deserves a place 

 in every greenhouse. 



Ixiomrian Montanum. Mountain Ixia. Lily. (Bot. Reg. 66.) Ama- 

 ryllidacese. Hexandria Monogynia. (Synonym, Amaryllis tatarica.) Disco- 

 vered on the hills in the neighbourhood of Teheran. It is a hardy bulbous 

 plant, producing, as by the figure given, about a dozen flowers in each spike. 

 Each separate bloom is about two inches and a half across, a rich purple-blue, 

 with streaks of white up the middle of each of the six divisions of the corolla, 

 which divisions reflex back in an advanced state, like theTurucap-hly. It blooms 



