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cream colour, brown, and green, with small streaks of rose. Lip yellow, with 

 white tip. Each blossom is about an inch and a-half across. They are nu- 

 merously produced in large panicles. 



Boi.doa fragrans. Sweet-scented. (Bot. Reg. 57.) Monomiacese. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. A greenhouse shrub i'rom Chili, where it is much valued. 

 The aromatic fruit is eaten by the natives. It is about as large as a haw. It 

 there grows to a tree about ten yards high. The foliage and flowers are highly 

 aromatic. The blossoms are of a pale greenish white, in smallish terminal 

 panicles, and about half an inch across. It is in the collection at the garden of 

 the London Horticultural Society. 



Aerides maculosum. Spotted Air-plant. ("Bot. Reg. 58.) Orchidacese. 

 Gynamhia Monandria. The flowers are produced in dense panicles. Each 

 flower is about an inch across, petals and sepals flesh colour, spotted with dark 

 crimson. Lip a rose crimson, having a broad margin of flesh colour. It is a 

 very beautiful species, growing in Messrs. Rollisson's collection at Tooting. 



Odontogi.ossum Cervantesii. Cervantes 1 Tooth-tongue. (Pax. Mag. 

 Bot.) Orchidacea?. Gynanrfria Monandria. Messrs. Loddiges received it from 

 Oaxaca. The flowers are white, with a pink-coloured margin. A portion of 

 the lower part of each petal is streaked with black, giving the flower a dark 

 circular eye. A separate blossom is nearly three inches across. Lip is very 

 small bright golden yellow, marked with crimson. 



Spirea Dougi.assii. Mr. Douglas's Spir^a. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Spiraeacea. 

 Icosandria Di-Pentagynia. It was first discovered by the late Mr. Douglas on 

 the north-west coast of America, about Columbia, but was not sent to this 

 country by him. Dr. Tolmie sent some seeds, which he gathered at Fort Van- 

 couver, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where the plant has bloomed. It forms 

 a handsome shrub, much like the well-known S. tomentosa, rising to about 

 four feet high. The flowers are produced in crowded panicled spikes, of a beau- 

 tiful rosy lilac. It blooms from June to November, and well merits a place in 

 the shrubbery. 



Mussjenda macrophylla. The Broad-leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Cin- 

 chonacaea. Pentandria Monogynia. From Nepal. An evergreen, upright 

 spreading shrub, growing in the conservatory to about six feet high. It flou- 

 rishes with a similar treatment to Luculia gratissima. The flowers are produced 

 in terminal corymbous heads. Each blossom has a tube about an inch and 

 a half long, green ; calyx green; petals five, of a rich orange-red colour. The 

 flower is about three-quarters of an inch across. 



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QUERIES. 



On a List op Pelargoniums, &c. — You will greatly oblige several of your 

 original subscribers in this neighbourhood by giving a list of a few of the best 

 new Pelargoniums and Calceolarias ; I mean such kinds only that if added to 

 our collections will be. really acquisitions. 



Sheffield, June 2. 1845. Felix. 



We recommend our querists to peruse the accounts as they will appear in the 

 Cabinet of the Metropolitan Exhibitions, and in them from time to time will be 

 found the names of all the flowers in prize collections ; in the mean time the 

 following may safely be added : — 



Pelargoniums. — Achilles, Ackbar, Roulette (Garth), Zanzummin (Heck), 

 Mabel, Favorita (Beck), Duke of Cornwall (Lyne), Sir R. Peel (Foster). Pul- 

 ihellum (Poster), Neptune, Ilermionc, Coquette. Albert Prince of Wales, Obcron, 

 Mojub, Ptinceps, Mrs. Sterling, Alice Gray, Bella (Beck) ; and amongst the 



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