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PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Arctostaphylos punoens. Pungent Barberry. (Bot. Reg. 17.) Ericaceae, 

 Decandria Monogynia. A native of Mexico, discovered by Mr. Hartweg, at an 

 elevation of 7000 to 9000 feet above tbe sea, forming an evergreen shrub six to 

 eight feet high. It is likely to be, in this country, a hardy evergreen, growing 

 about a yard high. It seldom can be kept alive for more than two or three 

 seasons after being raised from seeds, even in pots, unless shaded from midday 

 sun during summer. The flowers are produced on short pendant racemes. The 

 blossoms are about the size, and form too, of the Irish heath, of a rosy-piuk 

 colour. 



Berbbris pallida. Pale Ash-leaved Barberry. (Bot. Reg. 16.) Berbe- 

 raceae, Hexandria Monogynia. This is a new species, from Mexico, from 

 whence Mr. Hartweg has sent seven species. It there forms an evergreen shrub, 

 six feet high. It is of the section termed pinnated, or a^h-leaved, with yellow 

 blossoms numerously produced on alooseish raceme near six inches long. Up to 

 the present time it has been grown in a cool pit in the gardens of the London 

 Horticultural Society. It is easily increased, like the other new kinds of Ber- 

 beris, by grafting in spring or autumn on the common B. aquifolium. 



Bolbophyllum macranthum. Large-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 13.) Orchidaceae, 

 Gynandria Monandria. Sent to Messrs. Loddiges's, from Sincapore. The 

 flowers are produced singly, on a footstalk about four inches long. Each lilossom 

 is two inches across, the centre is a yellowish green ; the rest of it is purple 

 spotted with dark. It blooms in spring. 



Bromheadia falustris. The Marsh. (Bot. Reg. 18.) The plant has 

 much the appearance of Epidendrum elongatum. The flower spikes have 

 several upon each. The blossoms are about two inches and a-half across, 

 spreading quite open ; sepals and petals white. Thelabellum is straw-colou;ed 

 in the middle, violet tips, with purple and yellow interspersed. 



Campanula fragilis. Var. Hirsuta. Hairy fragile Bell Flower. (Pax. 

 Mag. Bot.) Campanulaceae, Pentandria Monogynia. A very neat and interesting 

 species, a native of Italy, thriving beautifully when grown in the greenhouse, in 

 a sunny situation. It is a compact-growing herbaceous perennial plant, the 

 branches hanging over tbe sides of tbe pot, which bloom very profusely. Each 

 blossom is about an inch and a-half across, spreading quite open, and nearly 

 flat, of a beautiful pale blue colour. It is one of the neatest greenhouse orna- 

 ments, well deserving cultivation. It may be had at the principal nurseries. 



Disa okandifi.ora. Large-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 4073.) Orchidaceae, 

 Gynandria Monandria. A terrestrial Orchideae. A native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where it is termed the pride of Table Mountain ; and Mr. Harvey adds 

 " that every stream is literally bordered with it in the month of March. There 

 the flower-stem rises two feet and a-half high, and each blossom is about five 

 inches across. The sepals a rich red, petals same, very small; labellum red and 

 yellow, with deep crimson veins. The natural situation of growth is on the 

 margin of pools of standing water, the drainage of the boggy slopes of the 

 mountain, where tbe roots are immersed. These are dTy, or nearly so, in 

 Hummer. It is a splendid flowering plant, well deserving a place in every col- 

 lection of Cape bulbous and tuberous plants. 



Gladiolus Gandiknsis. The Ghent Corn flag. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Iridacea?, 

 Triandria Monogynia. It is an hybrid, very probably from the G. communis, 

 impregnated with G. pudibundus. The flowers have the openness of the latter, 

 with somewhat of the tints in the colours. The flowers are of a fine crimson- 

 red, with the lower petals, towards their origin, yellow slightly streaked with 

 red. It is a fine floweiing variety, highly deserving a situation in every warm 

 pact of the flower-garden, or in the open bed of a greenhouse, conservatory, or 

 CM) pit-frame. Messrs. Mounljoys, of Haling, have the plant. Messrs. Kol- 



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