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the exception of Coronation, the flower above noticed, have never been 

 able to obtain a prize at a Midland or Northern Exhibition with thern, 

 which strengthens the supposition that that flower approximates to a 

 standard which would, in all probability, meet the views of the northern 

 and southern growers. 



A Midland County, November 17, 1843. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Acrophyllum verticillatum. Whorl4eaved. (Bot. Mag. 1050.) Cunoni- 

 aceae. Decandria Monogynia. Mr. Allan Cunningham discovered this plant 

 growing upon the blue mountains of New Holland. It is a neat shrubby green- 

 house plant, growing about two feet high ; branching, the ends of which are of 

 a red-purple colour. The flowers are produced numerously in dense whorls of a 

 greenish-white, with numerous yellow anthers, appearing similar to those of 

 small Hypericums (St. John's Wort), and possess a very neat and interesting 

 appearance. It blooms profusely during the spring months, and well deserves a 

 place in the greenhouse, as a companion to several of the spring-flowered Acacias 

 and Mimosas. 



Aerides akfine. Rose-coloured Air-plant . (Bot. Mag. 4049.) Orchideae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Discovered by Dr. Wallich on the mountains of Nepal, 

 and sent to the Royal Gardens at Kew. The flowers are produced numerously 

 on a pendant raceme sis or eight inches long. Each blossom is about an inch 

 across, of a purplish-rose colour, spotted with dark, and the lip having a streak 

 of red up its middle. It is a graceful and pretty flowering plant, and blooms 

 freely in spring. 



Alstr^meria mneatiflora. Lined-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 58.) Amarylli- 

 daceae. Hexandria Monogynia. Roots of this plant were sent from Peru by 

 John Maclean, Esq., of Lima. It is one of the finest of its class, and although 

 somewhat similar to A. Ligtu, pulcra, and pelegrina, it is very apparently dis- 

 tinct. It is a greenhouse perennial, blooming very freely when grown in a com- 

 post of loam and sandy-peat, giving it when in a growing state a free supply of 

 water, and plenty of air. It requires an autumn rest, like the others, and 

 to be repotted in January. The flowers are produced in coiymbous heads of 

 eight or ten together. Each blossom is about an inch and a half across, the 

 prevailing colour being a pretty pink. The two upper petals are pink at the 

 ends, the lower parts being white and yellow spotted with red. The edges of 

 the ?epals and petals are lined with slight streaks verging to the edges. The 

 sepals have a stripe of green up the middle of each. 



Boronia Frazeri. (Bot. Mag. 4052.) We saw this plant in bloom at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's under the name Boronia Anemonifolia, and it has been figured by Mr. 

 Paxton as such. It is a very neat and pretty flowering plant, branching much, 

 and blooming freely. Each blossom is about three-quarters of an inch across, of 

 a rosy-red colour. 



Duvana i-ongifolia. Long-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 59.) Anacardiacese. Poly- 

 gamia Monaecia. A native of South America, which in ordinary winters will 

 live in the open air of this country. Seeds of it were received by Mr. Low, of 

 Clapton Nursery, from Buenos Ayres ; a plant of it has grown freely and 

 bloomed against an open wall in the London Horticultural Society's Garden. 

 The blossoms are very small, of a yellowish-white, produced numerously in dense 

 clusters at the axils of the leaves. It is an evergreen shrub. 



