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Trimezia Mbiudensis. — This plant was discovered on the snowy mountains 

 of Merida. The flowers are of a yellow and buff, prettily spotted. 



Bellkvallia Syriaca. — Bulbs were received from Aleppo by the Hon. W. F. 

 Strangways. It has bloomed at Spofforth. Tube pale blue, limb whitish be- 

 neath, reddish above. 



Gladiolus Festivus. — A Cape species, now in the Kew collection. Tube 

 white, limb pale rose, suffused with streaks of pale yellow. 



Pi.antia Flava. — A pretty little plant, named after our friend, Mr. Joseph 

 Plant, florist, of Cheadle. It. was raised from Cape seed at Spofforth, the packet 

 being named Sisyrinchium Spec. Involucre of four pretty pale yellow flowers. 



Biuwei.i.ia Glaucescens. — A native of an elevated portion of table-land, 

 termed New England, on the south-eastern mountains of Australasia. It is of 

 the Asphodelia section of plants. Flowers striated with white and red. 



Leochilus Herbaceus. — An orchideous plant, from La Guayra. It has 

 been introduced to this country by George Wailes, Esq., of Newcastle. Sepals 

 and petals green, with a single red stripe up the middle; lip white, tinged with 

 green and banded with purple. The plant is of small size. 



Lkochixus Sanouinolentus. — Mr. Barker received this, too, from La Guyara. 

 The flowers are small, but very handsome, having a deep crimson lip richly 

 studded with clear purple spots. 



Epidendrum Ceratistes. — From the Spanish Main. Mr. Hartweg sent it to 

 the London Horticultural Society. The panicle is about three feet long, and 

 the flowers of a clear green with a whitish lip ; they are very similar to those of 

 E. Selligerum. 



Phycella Obtusa. — From Peru. The umbel contains six flowers ; base 

 of the tube flesh-colour, the rest part green. 



New Plants sben at Nurseries, &c. 



At Messrs. Low and Co. — In the stove and greenhouse we noticed the fol- 

 lowing new and fine plants: — Bouvardia strigosa; Lisianthus longifolia ; 

 Echites carassa ; Allamanda grandiflora ; Portlandia hexandra ; Rnellia ele- 

 gans; Cuphea strigolosa ; Reevesia thrysoidea ; Veronica salieifolia; Cestrum 

 aurantiacum ; Scutellaria, said to be a blue-flowered species; Budlea Lindley- 

 ana, the flowers are blue; Salvia alba, flowers white; Tacsonia sempervirens, 

 and T. pinnata, — these are from California, and are stated to be hardy species ; 

 Achimenes alba, a white-flowered species ; Ilex excelsior, from the Himalayan 

 Mountains, quite hardy, a very beautiful and noble species ; Ardisia Mexicana, 

 a very noble-looking plant, the foliage being as large as a moderate-sized Mag- 

 nolia grandiflora ; Ipomsea Broadleyana, an hybrid, raised between I. rubro- 

 coerulea and I. Horsfallise, a very beautiful hybrid ; Oldenlandia Deppei, from 

 the Cape, — the flowers are white, like those of the white jasmine, Jasminium 

 grandiflorum ; Chorozema, a new species, having a soft, hairy foliage, very 

 delicate and neat ; Brachysema villosa, a noble-looking plant, very superior in 

 appearance to any of the other species ; Dryandra bipinnatifida, very pretty 

 foliage. 



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QUERIES. 



On Culture of the Cape Jasmine. — If some Correspondent would say ibe 

 best way to treat the white Cape Jasmine to get it to flower freely, the compost 

 it requires, the winter treatment, situation, &c, it will much oblige 



Halifax, Nov. 29, 1844. A Novice. 



