240 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



flowers are produced most numerously in very long racemes, there being more 

 flowers than leaves, of a delicate yellow colour. The plant deserves a place in 

 every greenhouse and conservatory. 



Behberis dulcis. Sweet-fruited Barberry. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Berberaceae. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. Although this plant lias been in this country for 

 thirteen years, such is its beauty and merit that we are induced to notice it again. 

 It is an hardy evergreen shrubby' plant, growing four or five feet high, and is a 

 very interesting and beautiful plant at all seasons. It blooms from March to 

 June, and is succeeded by fine round berries of a rich purple colour. The flowers 

 are of a deep yellow colour. When the berries are ripe they have a very deli- 

 cious flavour, and make excellent preserves and tarts. When grown singly on a 

 lawn, it makes a very pretty object. It is highly ornamental when arranged 

 with other shrubs in the border. It is particularly pretty when trained dwarf to 

 form an edging round a bed of Roses, Hollyoaks, Dahlias, &c. It is easily arranged 

 to form an edging of six or twelve inches high, &c, and whether in fine bloom, 

 in fruit, or having only its striking evergreen foliage, it is pretty. Plants can 

 be procured at a very low price at most nurseries. 



j^Echmea fclqens. Brilliant flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Bromeliacea?. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. Sent to Paris from Cayenne, in South America, and 

 from thence to Chatsworth, where it has bloomed. It is not so straggling as 

 many of the Pine Apple tribe of plants are ; it blooms freely, and the flower 

 spikes are compact. The flowers are of brilliant blue and scarlet, very showy. 

 It increases by suckers, which arise as the Pine Apple does. 



Erythrochiton Bkaziliensis. Brazilian Red Coat. (Bot. Reg. 47.) Ru- 

 taceae. Pentandria Monogynia. A native of shady places in the virgin woods 

 of Brazil. It is stated that it forms a small tree about ten feet high, having no 

 branches ; the leaves are long, leathery, and collected at the end. From amongst 

 them rises a long three-cornered flower-stalk, at the end of which are a few 

 large white flowers, each blossom being about two inches across. It has bloomed 

 in the collection at Sion-house Gardens. 



Eucalyptus spi.achnicaupon. Splachnum-fruited. (Bot. Mag. 4036.) 

 Myrtacea. Icosandtia Monogynia. A native of King George's Sound, where 

 it grows to a considerable size. It has been found at the Swan River as a con- 

 siderable tree. It grows freely in this country in the greenhouse. The flowers 

 are produced in terminal peduncles, bearing many large flowers, each being about 

 two inches and a-half across, of a yellowish green. It is in the collection at the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Gastuoi.obiuji acutum. Sharp-leaved. (Mag. Bot. 4040.) Leguminosa?. 

 Decandria Monogynia. A native of Swan River colony, and sent to Kew in 

 1342. It is a greenhouse shrub, growing about two feet high, branching with 

 angled shoots. The flowers are produced numerously in racemes. Each blossom 

 is about hiilf an inch across, being of a deep rich red and yellow, very beautiful. 

 It deserves a place in every greenhouse. 



Isopagon scaber. Rough-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4037.) Proteacea. Tetran- 

 dria Monogynia. From Swan River colon)'. It has bloomed at Kew, the plant 

 being four feet high. The cones of flowers are about two inches across, of a 

 puiplish-rose colour. 



Othonna tubisrosa. Tuberous-rooted. (Bot. Mag. 4033.) Composite. 

 Syngenesia Necissaria. In the Kew collection. It is a native of the Cape. 

 The flowers are produced solitary ; the flower-stem about six inches high. The 

 blossom is of a bright yellow, each being about an inch and a-half across. 



Ruipsalis brachiata. Opposite-branched. (Bot. Mag. 4039.) Cactea?. 

 Icosandria Monogynia. From Buenos Ayres, and has lately bloomed in the 

 Glasnevin Botanic Gaulen. The flowers are of a greenish yellow, each being 

 about three-quarters of an inch across, and are produced numerously. 



Schizanthus candidus. White flowered. (Bot. Reg., 45.) Scrophulariace*. 

 Diandria Monogynia. This new kind was discovered near Coquimbo by Mr. 



