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received. Treated as a stove-plant, it blooms through most of the summer 

 months. It will do well, too, in a warm green-house. It grows from a foot to 

 half a yard high, slightly branched. The flowers are produced in a branching 

 panicle. Each blossom is funnel-shaped, bellying underneath; something in 

 the way of a small flower of Gloxinia speciosa. The flower is about an inch and 

 a half long, and nearly an inch across the mouth, of a rich purple ; being paler 

 and reddish in the tubular portion. It strikes readily from cuttings, soon 

 blossoms, and, so very beautiful, as to deserve a place in every exotic collection 

 of plants. 



Gardenia Stanleyana. Lord Derby's Gardenia. (Bot. Reg. 47.) Cin- 

 chonaceae. Pentnndria Monngynia. A native of Sierra Leone, sent by Mr. 

 Whitfield to the Earl of Derby's, iu whose service he was when the present plant 

 was discovered. It has bloomed in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. It is a 

 shrubby stove-plant ; the foliage a lively green ; ovate. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in great abundance, rising in an erect positiou above the foliage ; each 

 having a tube about nine inches long; and then terminates in a spreading five- 

 parted flower, rive inches across. The inside of the tubular portion is dark 

 coloured. The centre of each spreading limb of the flower is green, spotted with 

 red; the remainder is a snowy white, spotted with pink. The large spotted 

 trumpet-like flowers, in profusion, produce a splendid appearance ; they are 

 fragrant too. The plant is of very easy culture. It deserves a place in every 

 hothouse. From its vigorous habit it appears to us to be very likely to succeed 

 well in a warm greenhouse. We are trying it ; and, so far, it thrives well. 



Chi.orqja virescens. Green Veined. Orchidaceae. Gynandria Monan- 

 dria. (Bot. Reg. 49.) A native of the pastures of the Cordilleras of Chili, and, 

 being a terrestrial Orchideae, grows there as plenteous as our meadow orchises do 

 in this country. It requires to be grown in a warm green-house, in rough sandy 

 peat; to have plenty of water when growing; but, when the stem and leaves 

 die down, to be kept barely moist, and be re-potted when the bulb begins to 

 push in spring. The flowers are produced in an erect raceme, six inches long; 

 they are of a rich orange yellow, having numerous light green veins upon the 

 ground colour. Each blossom is two inches across, and a dozen or more in each 

 raceme. It is a very pretty flowering species. 



CviiciDirii Masiersii. Masters's Cvmbid. Orchidaceae. Gynandria Mo- 

 nandria. (Bot. Reg. 50.) Messrs. Loddiges' obtained this new species from 

 the East Indies. The flowers are pure white, with a streak of yellow on the lip, 

 and a few small spots of pink. They are sweet scented, with an almond fra- 

 grance. Each flower is about 2^ inches across. It is a very delicate and pretty 

 species. 



Azalea Ljetitije. Garden Hybrid. This handsome and fragrant hybrid 

 was raised at Spofforth Gardens, from the seed of a common Rhododendron pon- 

 ticum, impregnated, in the greenhouse, by pollen of an Azalea; we understand, 

 an orange- coloured one. The flowers are produced in fine heads, white streaked, 

 and tinged with \ellow. 



Eremostachys laciniata. Jag-leaved Desert-rod. (Bot. Reg. 52.) La- 

 miaceae. Didynamia Gymnospermia. It is a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, 

 8 native of the eastern side of Caucasus. It grows erect, from three to live feet 

 high, blooming from May to August. The flowers are produced in whorls ; a 

 pale sulphur, with a deep yellow lip, margined with crimson. It is grown in 

 the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 



GotlPHOLOBITJH VERSICOLOR VAR. CALI.lJiUS PURPUREtS. CHANGEABLE PUR- 



PLE-8TEMMED variety. (Bot. Mag. 4179.) Leguminosae. Decandria Mono- 

 gynia. Mr James Drummond sent seeds of this very pretty greenhouse suf- 

 fruticose plant from the Swan Kiver colony to Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, of 

 Exeter Nursery. It is an upright branching small shrub, with deep purple 

 branches. The flowers are produced in profusion. At their first opening they 

 are of a deep rich scarlet-red ; and, as they increase in age, become of an orange, 

 with red margin. It is a very beautiful variety, and merits a place in every 

 greenhouse. Each flower is about an inch and a quarter across. 



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