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in May and June, and is a very pretty and interesting species, well deserving a 

 place in the flower-border. 



Laplacea Srmiserrata. Srmiserrated-i.eaved. (Bot. Mag. 4129.) Tern- 

 straemiaceae. Polyandria Pentagynia. A native of Brazil, where it grows to a 

 tree of thirty to forty feet high. Ill the plant-stove in this country plants bloom 

 profusely when even a foot high. The plant has much the appearance of the 

 Green Tea-plant. The flowers are produced numerously, white, each blussoro 

 being near two inches across. It is in the collection of the Duke of Northumber- 

 land, Sion House Gardens. 



Oncidium Tricolor. Three-coloured. (Bot. Mag. 4130.) Orchidese. 

 Gynandria Monandria, Sent from Jamaica to the Royal Botanic Gardens at 

 Kew. It is a very beautiful and entirely new specie-.-, with foliage resembling 

 that of O. Triquetrum and O. Pulchellum, but very different in the flowers, both 

 as to form and colouring, being most elegantly varied with colours. The flower 

 scape rises about a foot high, terminating with a much branching panicle of 

 flowers. Each blossom is about an inch across. Sepals and petals of a yellow- 

 ish green, streaked and blotched with red. Labellum white, with a yellow co- 

 lumn streaked with red. It is a very interesting and beautiful species, well 

 deserving a place in every collection of this class of flowers. 



Orthrosanthes Multiflora. Many-flowered. (Pax. Bot. Mag.) Iri- 

 daceae. Triaudria Monogynia. It was discovered near Lucky Bay, in New 

 Holland ; and although it will bloom in the open border in Summer, it does best 

 kept in the greenhouse, or cool frame. It is an herbaceous perennial, the 

 flower-stem rising a foot high ; each scape contains several flowers of a bright 

 blue colour; each blossom is about an inch and a half across. It is a neat 

 flowering plant, deserving a place in the greenhouse. It has bloomed at Mr. 

 Henderson's Nursery, Edgware Road. 



Salvia Strictiflora. Erect Flowering. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Labiateae. 

 Diandria Monogynia. A native of Peru. It is a shrubby plant, requiring a 

 similar treatment to the general species. The spikes of flowers are about five 

 inches long ; each blossom about an inch and a half, of a rich crimson red. It 

 is a very neat and pretty species. It is in the collection of Messrs. Lee, of 

 Hammersmith Nursery. 



Stapelia Cactiformis. Cactus-like. (Bot. Mag. 4127.) Asclepideae. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. This very singular species has been lately received 

 from Mr. Zeyhar, who sent it from Little Namagua-land, in South Africa, to 

 the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley Park. It has bloomed in the collection at Kew. 

 The stem, or entire plant, has the appearance of a Mammilluria (Cactus), or 

 some succulent Euphorbia. The flowers are produced on the summit of the 

 plant, in form like the common Stapelias, of a yellow green, striped beautifully 

 with blood-red ; the summit being crowned with several of these beautiful 

 flowers, give it a very interesting appearance. 



Tetratheca Hirsata. Hairy. (Bot. Reg. 67.) Tremandraceae. Octo-Decan- 

 dria Monogynia. From the Swan River Colony. It is a very neat greenhouse, 

 shrubby plant; the foliage about the size of Pimelea decussata. It branches 

 numerously, and produces a profusion of its pretty starry flowers. Each blossom 

 is about an inch across, of a beautiful rosy pink, with blood-colnured centre. It 

 grows very freely, and is readily propagated. It deserves to be in every green- 

 house. It mav now be had at the principal nurseries. 



Plants noticed in the Botanical Register, not figured. 



Caliphruria Hartwegiana. — This perennial Amaryllidaceous plant is from 

 New Granada. The flowers are produced in an umbel of about seven, the tubular 

 portion of the flower green, and the other part of the corolla white. 



Habranthos Nomns. — This splendid species has bloomed out of doors in 

 front of a pine-stove at Rev. F. Belfield's, Primley Hill, Torquay. Each spathe 

 contains several flowers ; tube green, limbs red, with some portion of greenish 

 streaks outside, and whitish inside the flower. 



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