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PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Ania bicornjs. Two-horned. (Bot. Reg. 8.) Orchidaceae, Gyuandria Mo- 

 nandria. Sent from Ceylon to the Rev. J. Clowes, of Broughton Hall, near Man- 

 chester. It is of the Bletia type. The flowers are produced in a scape of about 

 eighteen or twenty in each. Labellum yellow, with a few red spots ; sepals and 

 petals green. Each blossom is about an inch across. 



Cereus extensus. Long-stemmed. (Bot. Mag. 4066.) Cacteae. Icosan- 

 dria Monogynia. From Trinidad to Kew Gardens, where it has long been 

 grown, but never bloomed till 1843. It is a creeping species. The flowers are 

 of the size of the night-blooming Cereus, from eight to ten inches across. Tube 

 green, scales greenish-yellow, tipped and edged with red, petals rosy-coloured. 



Crinum variabile, var. roseum. Rose-coloured Crinum. (Bot. Reg. 9.) Ama- 

 ryllidaceae, Hexandria Monogynia; Synonyms Amaryllis variabilis, Amaryllis re- 

 voluta. The C. variabile is the hardiest known species out of doors ; it preserves 

 its leaves in winter longer than C. capense, and shoots earlier in the spring. The 

 flowers are inside white, tinged towards the mouth with rose, outside a beautiful 

 rose-colour. Each flower is about five inches long, and as much across the 

 mouth. It bloomed in April, 1843, in the collection of J. H. Slater, Esq., of 

 Newick Park, in Sussex. 



Dinema polybulbon. Many-bulbed. (Bot. Mag. 4067.) Orchidaceae, Gy- 

 nandria Monandria ; Synonym Epidendrum polybulbon. A native of Jamaica, 

 Mexico, &c. It is a diminutive plant, rising about three inches high. Each 

 flower is about an inch across, labellum white, sepals and petals narrow, greenish- 

 yellow. Bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 



Dii.lwynia clavata. Club-shaped. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Leguminosae, De- 

 candria Monogynia. A native of the Swan River colony. It is a pretty green- 

 house evergreen shrub. The flowers are produced in clustered spikes towards 

 the ends of the branches. Each blossom is about half an inch across ; the 

 vexilium of a rich deep yellow, streaked with red ; the keel and wings of a lively 

 crimson. Its beautiful pea-formed flowers produce a pretty effect. It well 

 merits a place in every greenhouse, and may be obtained at a reasonable price in 

 the public nurseries. It begins to bloom in April and continues for several 

 months. 



Erica Shannoniana. Lady Shannon's Heath. (Bot. Mag. 40C9.) Ericaceae, 

 Octandria Monogynia. A very neat flowering species. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in umbels of ten or twelve in each. Each blossom is tubulous, a little 

 more than an inch long, white tinged with red, greenish tinge just below the 

 limb or mouth of the flower. It deserves a place in every collection. 



Genista virgata. Twiggy-Broom. (Bot. Reg. 11.) Leguminosae, Mona- 

 delphia Decandria ; Syucnym Spartium virgatum. A hardy evergreen shrub, 

 growing about four feet high, delighting in a dry situation. It grows very freely, 

 and lilooms most profusely from May to July. The flowers are borne in large 

 spikes, very numerous, of a bright yellow. It deserves a place in every shrub- 

 bery. Plants may behad cheap at the large public nurseries. 



Ii'on.ba crassipes. Thick flower-stalked. (Bot. Mag. 4068.) Convolvu- 

 lacea;, Pentandria Monogynia. From Southern Africa. It has bloomed in the 

 garden of the Earl of Derby, Knowsley Park, Lancashire. A neat climbing 

 plant. Each flower is two inches across the mouth, of a pretty rosy-purple, be- 

 coming darker downwards into the tube. An interesting and beautiful species. 



Lissocnn.us hoseus. Rose-coloured. (Bot. Reg. 12.) Orchidaceae, Gyuan- 

 dria Monandria. A native of Sierra Leone. It is one of the terrestrial Orchi- 

 deae, and the flowers are strikingly beautiful ; they are numerously produced in 

 a dense long racemous spike. Each blossom is an inch and a half across ; the 

 fcepals are of a dark chocolate colour; the petals of a bright lose; lip rosy-crim- 



