NEW AND RARE PLANTS. SO 



with a spreading limb, something like a Scarlet Trumpet Honeysuckle in form 

 and colour. It is a very handsome flowering plant, well deserving a place in 

 every greenhouse. 



Oncidicm bicallosum. Two-warted. (Bot. Mag. 4148.") Orchideae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Sent by Mr. Skinner from Guatemala to the collection 

 at Woburn Abbey Gardens, and to Mr. Bateman at Knippersley in Cheshire. 

 The flowers are yellow, slightly tinged with green on the sepals and petals; they 

 are produced freely in large panicles. Each blossom is near two inches across. 



Phjedranassa chloracra. Crimson and Green blossomed. (Bot. Reg. 

 17.) Amaryllidaceae. Hexandria Monogynia. From Peru, a greenhouse 

 bulbous plant, which is bloomed at Bury-hill Gardens, near Dorking, in Surrey. 

 The flower-stem rises about two feet high, terminating in an umbel of many 

 drooping flowers. Each blossom is about two inches and a half long, the tubular 

 portion being of a bright crimson colour, and about half an inch of the end a 

 deep green. The contrast is striking, and the plant well deserves a place in 

 every greenhouse bulbous collection. 



Ruellia lilacina. Lilac-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 4147.) Acanthaceas. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. It is a hothouse shrubby plant, which has bloomed 

 in the collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. Mr. Glendiuning had 

 sent it there. The plant grows about two feet high, branching, smooth. The 

 flowers proceed from the axils of the leaves in pairs. The tubular portion is 

 about an inch and a half long, almost white at the lower part, but above lilac 

 with red veins. The limb (mouth) is spreading, of five rounded, nearly equal, 

 lobes, of a pretty lilac purple, with red veins, and, when expanded, is about an 

 inch across. It blooms the greater part of summer, and well merits a place in 

 the stove. 



Salvia azurea. Azure-blue flowering Sage. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Labi- 

 atae. Diandria Monogynia. It is a tall-growing herbaceous plant, smooth, 

 producing its blossoms in racemes about four inches long. There are six blos- 

 soms in each whorl. A separate flower is about an inch long. The lip has a 

 purple tinge upon the blue ; but the rest portion is a fine azure blue. The 

 leaves are long, and a narrow lanceolate form. 



Styphelia tubiflora. Tube-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Epacrideae. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. This very beautiful plant is a native of South Australia, 

 and, although it has been introduced some years into this country, it is not gene- 

 rally known, by no means as it merits, when it is grown as it ought and can be, 

 and thus be rendered an object of much beauty. It blooms, too, in the green- 

 house at a desirable season for ornament, viz., during the winter and early 

 spring months. It is an evergreen, Epacris-looking plant, producing numerous 

 tubular blossoms all along the shoots of the previous season. They are hand- 

 some, pendulous, an inch and a half long, of a rich rosy -crimson colour. It can be 

 had at the nurseries at a very cheap rate, and deserves to be in every greenhouse. 

 In order to have the plant bushy, the ends of the shoots require to be pinched 

 off to induce laterals. A turfy sandy peat soil, and a very liberal drainage, are 

 essential to grow it in. 



New Plants noticed in Botanical Register, not figured. 



Lobelia Texknsis. — A Mexican species, of the class of L. fulgens, cardinalis, 

 &c. The flowers are of a rich dark-purple colour. It appears not yet to be in 

 this country. 



Maxii.l.uua Lyonii. — A native of Mexico ; it has grass-looking leaves. The 

 llouers are of a purplish-brown, edged with yellow. 



IIki.cia sanouinolenta. — An orchidaceous plant, in the way of a Vandeae. 

 Sepals and petals olive coloured, spotted with brownish red. Labellum white. 

 striped with blood coloui, and streaks of yellow near the point. It has been 

 lent by Mr. Hartweg to the Loudon Horticultural Society, and is in the collec- 

 tion at Chiswick. 



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