NEW AND RARE PLANTS. G3 



a-half across, of a sulphur yellow ; the spreading throat of the tube striated with 

 deep rose. It blooms very freely, and deserves a place in every hothouse collec- 

 tion of plants. 



Gesneria poi.yantha. Many-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 399 J.') Gestu riaceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. Messrs. Veitch's collector sent roots of it from the 

 Organ Mountains of Brazil, and at their nursery it has bloomed profusely and 

 beautifully. The flowers are produced in a numerous branching panicle. They 

 are drooping, each blossom being about two inches long, of a rich scarlet outside 

 and yellow inside.. It is a very beautiful species. 



Fuchsia alpestris. Mountain Fuchsia. (Bot. Mag. 3999.) Ouagraria. 

 Octandria Monogynia. Discovered by Mr. Gardner, on the Organ Mountains 

 in Brazil, growing in moist, bushy, rocky places, at an elevation of 5000 feet 

 above the level of the sea. It has bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 

 The plant is of a rambling habit, and in its native situation the brandies extend 

 as much as twenty feet. The leaves are much like those of F. radicms. Each 

 blossom is about an inch long. The calyx is of a pale crimson colour. Petals, 

 of which but a very small portion is seen, a deep purple. The footstalk of the 

 flower is about two inches long. 



Hypocai.ymma robustuji. Larger Peach Myrtle. (Bot. Reg. 8.) Myrlacea?. 

 Icosaudria Monogynia. A native of the Swan River colony, now in the collec- 

 tion of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter. It is a very interesting 

 and beautiful myrtaceous plant, with heath-like foliage and a profusion of pretty 

 flowers, each blossom being half an inch across, in form of a peach-blossom, 

 of a handsome rosy-pink colour. It deserves a place in every greenhouse, and 

 will be esteemed wherever grown. 



Lit.u'm TiiSTAcEUM. Yellow Japan Lily. (Bot. Reg. 11.) Liliaceae. Ilex- 

 andria Mfihngyhia. It is said to be a Japanese species, and is in this country a 

 frame or half hardy plant. The flower stem rises from three to four feet, blooming 

 from July to October. Each blossom is about as large as the common Turncap 

 Lily, yellow, spotted slightly with red. 



Lathyrus pubescens. Downy Everlasting Pea. (Bot. Mag. 399G.) From 

 Buenos Avres, sent by Mr. Tweedie, and proves to be a hardy greenhouse plant, 

 with a probability of doing better even in the open air. The stems rise to three 

 feet long. Flowers in racemes, of a lilac-purple colour. 



Vuiksia psittacina. Parrot-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 10.) Bromeliacese. Hex- 

 andria Monogynia. Very similar to a Tillandsia. It is s:iid to be a native of 

 Rio Janeiro, and is a pretty stove plant. The bracts and steins are of a fine rich 

 scarlet colour, and the corolla yellow, having the tips of the reflexed petals 

 tingeil with green. Each blossom is near three inches long. 



New Plants at Mrs. Lawrence's — continued. 



Gomphoi.ouium. (New unnamed species.) The foliage is very small and neat. 

 The flowers of an entire bright yellow, and have a beautiful appearance. 



ChoIIOZEUA Dicksonia. A fine plant, four feet high, in profuse bloom ; its 

 orange-red flowers, with a deep red keel, rendering so fine a plant a beautiful 

 abject. 



Dhaoophym.um orach is. Of the natural order Epacridrea. A new and 

 handsome species, with a profusion of spikes of white flowers, rendering it one 

 of the neatest of greenhouse plants. 



Hermann!* incisa. A plant four feet high, very bushy, with thousands of 

 flowers upon it. 



Daviesi.v i.atifoi.ia. The finest specimen in the country, being five feet high, 

 bushy, and clothed with its beautiful yellow flowers. 



Bohonia anemomiioi.ia. A pretty anemone-leaved shrub, two feet high, 

 with pretty rosy-pink flowers. 



Abutilon Bedfordiensis. A fine plant in profuse bloom, eight feet high, 

 its pendant yellow flowers being very interesting and pretty. 



