18 NEW AND RARE TLANTS. 



approaching to a campanulate form. The sepals are tipped with green. The 

 stamens project about three quarters of an inch beyond the mouth of the tube. 

 It is a very pretty addition to the lovely tribe. If grown in a very rich soil, it 

 produces too much foliage ; if in a moderate soil it blooms freely. 



Grammatophyllum mui.tifi.orum var.tigrinum. — The Tiger-spotted Letter- 

 leaf. (Bot. Reg. 6'J.) Orchidacese. Gynandria. A stove orchidea. The 

 flowers are numerous, produced on an extended raceme. Each flower is about 

 an inch and a half across ; yellow, beautifully marked with dark, very similar 

 to the Butterfly Oncidium. It is a very handsome variety, well deserving a 

 place in every collection. It blooms for a longer period than any other plant of 

 its race. 



Lathyrus nervosus. — Nerve-leaved Everlasting Pea. (Bot. Mag. 3987.) 

 Leguminosse. 



Diadei.phia Df.candria. — Mr. Tweedie discovered this pretty greenhouse 

 species of Pea at Puerto Bravo, in South Brazil, and sent seeds to his Grace the 

 Duke of Bedford. It has bloomed at Woburn in the greenhouse, and in summer 

 it is found to do well in the open border. The flower stems rise to about two 

 feet high, stout. The flowers are numerous, each being about the size of that of 

 a common garden Pea, of a pale purplish blue. It is a very desirable plant for 

 the greenhouse. 



Pharbitis ostrina. — Royal Purple Gaybine. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Convol- 

 vulaceae. Pentandiia Monogynia. Most of our readers are probably aware that 

 the old group of Convolvulus has been divided into several sections, which are 

 now generally adopted. The present section of Pharbitis has been divided from 

 a previously separated one, viz., Ipomcea ; and now Ipomaea Learii is placed in 

 this race, and determined to be a Pharbitis in consequence of having a three- 

 celled ovaiy, with two seeds in each cell. Messrs. Loddiges received this new 

 species from Cuba, and with them, in the stove, it has bloomed profusely from 

 May to the end of summer. It is a tuberous rooted climbing plant, growing to 

 a considerable length, well suited for training round a pillar, or to a wiie trellis, 

 &c. It has a beautiful shining green three-parted leaf. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in clusters of three or four together. Each blossom is about two inches 

 across the mouth, and the funnel-shaped tubular part about the same length, of 

 a rich deep purple-velvet colour. It deserves a place in every collection of stove 

 plants. We have seen it on several occasions in bloom, and can testify of its 

 superior merits. 



Sauranja spectabii.is. — Showy. (Bot. Mag. 3982.) Ternstrcemiacea;. 

 Polyandria Monogynia. Seeds of this pretty flowering plant were sent from 

 Bolivia in 1838, to Mr. Knight, nurseryman, King's Road, Chelsea. A plant 

 twenty inches high has recently bloomed there. It has seven branches, and 

 produced thirty-seven many-flowered large panicles of flagrant white flowers. 

 Each blossom is about three-quarters of an inch across. It is one of the most 

 elegant and graceful slove plants grown, keeping in bloom, too, a considerable 

 period. 



Zichva villosa. — Villous. (Bot. Reg. G8.) Papilionacete. Diadelphia De- 

 candria. A native of the Swan River colony, and bloomed with Mr. Standish, 

 nurseryman, Bagshot. It is a free-growing greenhouse climber, and blooms the 

 greater part of summer, requiring plenty of air and light. It is well adapted for 

 training to a trellis. The flowers are produced numerously in heads of eight or 

 ten flowers in each. Each blossom is about half an inch across. The standard 

 orange-scarlet, with a yellow spot at the base ; wings rosy-pink ; keel small, 

 dark. Like the others of the tribe, it grows freely in equal portions of loam and 

 turfy sandy peat, chopped, not sifted, with a free drainage. 



PLANTS NOTICED IN THE BOTANICAL REGISTER, BUT NOT FIGURED. 



Gladiolus .equinoctialis. — From Sierra Leone. It is the only known tropical 

 Gladiolus. It is in the collection at Spoffbrtli. The spike of flowers contains 



