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Mr. Low of Clapton nursery received seeds, with whom it has bloomed. It is a 

 greenhouse shrubby plant, growing neatly erect, something like Hovea Celsii. 

 The flowers are produced in short racemes from the axils of the leaves, and to 

 such a length along the branches as to form long spikes. Each blossom is about 

 three-quarters of an inch across, of a pretty yellow colour ; blooms very freely in 

 the spring. 



LtpARiA parva. Small liparia. (Bot. Mag. 4034.) Leguminosae. Dia- 

 delphia decaudria. A small straggling greenhouse shrub, in the collection at the 

 Royal Gardens of Kew. It blooms profusely in the eai'ly spring months. The 

 flowers are produced in terminal bracteated heads, having about twenty blos- 

 soms in each, of a rich orange yellow, tipped at the under side of the end petals 

 with deep red. _ 



Oncidium uniflorum. One-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 43.) Orchidaceae. Gy- 

 nandria monandria. Mr. Gardner discovered this rare species in the forests of 

 the Organ mountains of Brazil. It has bloomed in the collection of Sir Charles 

 Lemon, Bart., at Carclew. Each of the flower stems are about two inches long, 

 issuing from the bases of the leaves, one-flowered. Each blossom is about an 

 inch and a half across. The sepals are of a dingy brown, slightly spotted with 

 brown. Petals of a similar colour ; labellum bright yellow spotted with blood- 

 red, and delicately fringed. 



Renanthera matutina. Morning Rhenanthera. (Bot. Reg. 41.) Orchi- 

 daceae. Gynandria monandria. Was originally discovered at the foot of Mount 

 Salak in Java, and subsequently by Mr. Cuming in the Phillippine Islands. It 

 has bloomed in the collection at Chatsworth, und with Messrs. Rollissons of 

 Tooting. The flowers are procured in dense racemes, in panicle spikes. Each 

 blossom is about half an inch across, bright yellow spotted and marked with red- 

 dish-crimson ; the stem of the flower is of a pretty pink. 



Rhododendron fragrans. Fragrant-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Ericaceae. 

 Deeandria monogynia. Probably an hybrid between R. Catawbiense and some 

 hardy fragrant-flowered Azalea. It has long been in the collection of Messrs. 

 Chandlers of Vauxhall. The flowers are of a pinkish-lilac shaded with deep 

 rose, of a very agreeable fragrance. The shrub is of a neat dwarf habit, and 

 very suitable lor the front of a Rhododendron bed, or shrub border. 



Rosa Brunonit. Mr. Brown's Rose. (Bot. Mag. 4030.) Rosaceao. Ico- 

 sandria polygynia. A native of Nepal and Kamoon, from whence it was sent 

 \>y Dr. Wallich to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where planted against a west 

 asp^cted wall, it proves perfectly hardy, and blooms very profusely. The flowers 

 are produced in large corymbous heads, single, white or cream-coloured when 

 young, but when declining they assume a rich rosy-purple tint. Each blossom 

 is about two inches across, and delightfully fragrant. It grows rapidly, and if 

 allowed to grow naturally, is a climbing shrub, with long slender branches, 

 nearly glabrous, having some stout hooked prickles. It well merits cultiva- 

 tion. 



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QUERIES. 



On Lotus Jacobeus. — Will you inform me through the Floriculturai. Ca- 

 binet, how I may obtain seed from the Lotus Jacobeus ? I have had plants of 

 it for some years, but find that when the flowers begin to wither the foot stalk to 

 which the bloom is attached, drops off. As I am desirous to raise plants from 

 seed of my own saving, I shall feel obliged for any instruction on this head. 



August 19th, 1843. A Constant Reader. 



[Each blossom should be impregnated; dissect a flower, and read the remarks 

 on impregnating Pelargoniums, which are inserted in our August Number, at 

 p. 189, and seed will be obtained. — Conductor.] 



