306 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



of orange at its origin. It is a very pretty and highly interesting species, 

 meriting a place in every collection. 



Potentilla bicolor. Two colouued. (Bot. Reg. 62.) Roseaceae. Ieo- 

 samlria Polygynia. An herbaceous plant from Nepal. The flowers are of a 

 clear yellow, over which is a net-work of rosy red. Each blossom is an inch 

 across. It is in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 



Sckvoi.a attenuata. Attenuated-leaved. (Rot. Mag. 4196.) Good- 

 enovieae. Pentandria Monogynia. From the Swan River Colony. It is a very 

 pretty flowering greenhouse shrub, blooming very freely through the summer 

 season. The plant grows about two feet high, producing numerous terminal and 

 lateral spikes of flowers, which are of a bright blue, tinged with purple. Each 

 blossom is about an inch across, having much the resemblance of a cineraria 

 flower having one-third cut out ; and, as the flowers face sideways, it is the 

 upper portion exhibits the deficiency. It will be a very suitable plant for 

 grouping in the flower-garden. The foliage being narrow, and the flowers 

 profuse. 



Smeathmannia l^vigata. Smooth stalked. (But. Mag. 4194.) Passi- 

 floreae. Polyandria Pentagynia. A hothouse shrub, with glossy green foliage. 

 It is an evergreen, with foliage somewhat like the bay- tree. The flowers are 

 white, about the size of those of a Noblesse peach, and they are produced 

 along the branches, in a similar manner, at the axil of each leaf. Mr. Whit- 

 field sent the plant to the Earl of Derby. 



Staticb Foktuni. Mr. Fortune's Sea Lavender. Plumbaginaea. Pen- 

 tandria Pentagynia. (Bot. Reg. 63.) Seeds of this yellow-flowered Statice 

 were sent from China by Mr. Fortune in 1844. It has bloomed in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden at Chiswick, where, both in a frame and greenhouse, 

 it bloomed beautifully from July to October. The flowers are produced in vast 

 profusion in a branching panicle ; have a pretty appearance : the calyx is flesh 

 colour, and the petals bright yellow. 



Plants noticed in Nurseries, &c. 



At Mr. Henderson' 's, Pine Apple Nursery. 



Hindsia longiflora alba. This very handsome flowering plant was in pro- 

 fuse bloom. The flowers pure white, longer than H. violacea, and in large 

 heads ; also very fragrant. It highly merits a place in every stove. 



Hoitzia coccinea. In the greenhouse we observed several very beautiful 

 specimens in profuse bloom. The flowers are produced in long spikes, tubular, 

 about an inch and a half long, a very beautiful rich scarlet colour. The plant 

 forms a compact little shrub, and is very showy. It deserves to be grown 

 wherever practicable. 



Cestkum aurantiacum. A very pretty greenhouse shrub, and, blooming at 

 this late season of the year, gives more interest to it. The flowers are tubulous, 

 of a rich orange colour. 



Justicia. A new species, with rich yellow flowers. 



Mei.astoma Niveniana. A stove plant ; the flowers are white, about an inch 

 in diameter. 



Ekanthkmum strictum. A stove p'ant, blooming profusely ; a fine summer, 

 autumn, and winter plan'. The flowers are produced in spikes ; each blossom 

 in form and size like a Phlox, and a pretty bright blue colour. It will flourish, 

 too, in a warm greenhouse, and deserves to be grown wherever it can be. 



Lisianthus longiklorus. The flowers are long, drooping, and a pretty yellow 

 colour.. 



Rhodostemma Gardenioidea. The flowers are pure white, tube formed, 

 much like the common white jasmine. They are produced in fine corymbous 

 heads, and the blossoms stand erect at the centre ; it is a very neat flowering 

 plant, well deserving a place in the greenhouse. 





