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PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Backiiousia Myrtifolia. Myrtle-leaved. (Bot. Mag.) Myrtaceae, 

 Icosaudria Munogynia. James Hackhouse, Esq., of the York Nursery, dis- 

 covered this pretty greenhouse shrub in the Illawara district, in New South 

 Wales. Mr. Backhouse says it is a small tree, sixteen feet high, with slender 

 branches. The flowers are produced in corymbs. It is very like a broad-leaved 

 Myrtle, with hairy edges to the leaves. 



Baubacenia squamata. Scaly-stalked. (Bot. Mag.) Ha?modoracea. 

 Hexandria Munogynia. Sent from the Organ Mountains of Brazil to Messrs. 

 Veitch's, of Exeter. It has bloomed in the collection at Kew. It has much 

 the appearance of a small Yucca, with finely spined margins to the leaves. The 

 perianth, or fljwer, is a small star-like form, of a bright orange-red colour. It 

 is a little neat stove plant. 



Epidendrum dipus. Two-footed. (Bot. Reg. 4.) Orchidaeeae. Gvnan- 



dria Monandria. From Brazil to Messrs. Loddiges's, with whom it has bloomed. 



It n nch resembles K. nutans. The flowers are produced in a compact panicle, 



each bloom about three-quarters of an inch across. Sepals and petals green, 



iuged with brown; lip white, tinged with yellow. 



Eria vestita. Furred I£ria. (Bot. Reg. 2.) Orchidaceae. Gynandria 

 Monandria. A native of Sincapore, and of Manilla too. It has much the ap- 

 pearance of a Dendrobium. Tlie edges of the leaves and the stems are singu- 

 larly covered with reddish-brown hairs. The flowers are produced in a pendulous 

 raceme, white inside, and a reddish-brown outside. 



Gloxinia tijbiflora. Tube-fi.owered. (Bot. Reg. 3.) Gesneriaceae. 

 Didwiamia Angiospermia. Mr. Tweedie sent this charming greenhouse plant 

 from B.enos Ayies. The flowers are of pure white, excepting the tinge of dark 

 outside the tube. The tube is near four inches long. The spreading hmos of 

 the corolla are about an inch and a-half across. The flowers are produced in 

 profusion, are fragrant, and make a beautiful appearance. It well deserves a 

 place ui the warm greenhouse or plant-stove. It flourishes iu either, and blooms 

 for a long period. 



Lii.il m Thomsonianum. Dr. Thomson's Lily. (Bot. Reg. 1.) Liliacea?. 

 Hexandria Munogynia. A native of Mussonree, a province of British India. 

 It has blootm-d in the greenhouse of Messrs. Lodciges. It is a half-hardy 

 plant, requiring a similar treatment to the Tigridias. The flowers are produced 

 in fine erect racemes, of a pretty rose colour, fragrant. The blossoms are cam- 

 panuhue, about two inches long, and, when fully open, about the same across 

 the mouth. It is a very beautiiul species. 



Lvcui.lA Pinciana. Mr. Pixce's. (Bot. Mag.) Rubiaceae. Pentandria 

 Jlonogwiia. Mr. Pince, nurseryman, of Exeter, received seeds of this splendid 

 plant lrom Nepal, and has cultivated it in the greenhouse. It is a shrub attain- 

 ing the height of several feet. The flowers are produced in large cymes, which, 

 spreading on terminal leafy branches, thus several uniting, form one compound 

 cyme, a foot or more in diameter. They are white on the upper side, changing 

 by age to a cream or ivory colour, tinged with blush. The outside of the flower 

 is a lb ep blush, and the tubular portion red. The magnificent heads of its 

 lovely, delicious fragrant flowers renders it one of the finest plants introduced for 

 mauy years. It deserves to be grown wherever it is practicable. 



Nympii.'Ei rubra. Red-flowered Water Lily. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) 

 Nympheacex. Polyandria Munogynia. A nalive of Hindustan, wheie it 

 grows iu pools of fresh water. It is a stove aquatic iu this country. The 

 flowers are of a beautiful purple crimson, very showy, nearly double, each 

 blossi>m being about five inches in diameter. Tne tank system of heating Would 

 suit it the best. A quantity of loamy earth should be spread in the bottom of a 



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