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PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



Catti.eya superba. The Superb. (Bot. Mag. 4083.) Orchidaceae. Gy- 

 naudria Monandria. (Synonym C. Schcmburgkir.) Discovered by Mr. Schom 

 burgh in British Guiana, and forwarded to Messrs. Loddiges's, with whom it 

 has bloomed. Sepals and petals of a pretty rosy -lilac colour. Labelluni of a 

 deep purple-red, somewhat paler at the edges. The peduncle of flowers contains 

 four or five in each. A separate blossom is about four inches across. They are 

 most powerfully fragrant morning and evening. It well merits a place in every 

 Orchideae house. 



Clerodendron infortunatum. Unlucky Clerodendron. — (Bot. Reg. 19.) 

 Verbenacese. Didynamia Angiospermia. This beautiful hot-house shrubby 

 plant is a native of Ceylon, and is now in the collection at Sion Gardens, where 

 it has bloomed, and is a most splendid flowering species. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in large panicled heads, of a fine orange-scailet colour. It well deserves 

 a place in a hot- house collection. There is another species named fortunatum, 

 which is ust-d beneficially in medicine, while the present species. C. rnfortu- 

 natum, is dangerous, on which account the specific name has been giveu to it. 



Eria flokibunda. Many-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 20.) Orchidacese. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. A native of Sincapore, from whence it was imported by 

 Messrs. Loddiges's. The flowers are produced on small drooping racemes, about 

 thiee inches long. Each blossom is near half an inch across, white, having the 

 petals slightly tipped with rose. 



Efidendrum viteli.inum. Yolk or Egg coi.oubed. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) 

 Orchidaceae. Gynandria Monandria. A native of Mexico, sent from thence to 

 Messrs. J.oddiges's, with whom it has bloomed. The flowers are produced in 

 erect terminal racemes of from 12 to 20 in each. A separate blossom is near 

 three inches across, of a beautiful scarlet-orange colour, displaying a superb 

 appearance. 



Ii.ex platyphylla. Broad-leaved Canarian Holly'. A plant of which is 

 in the greenhouse at the Royal Gardens of Kew. It is peculiar to the Canary 

 Islands, and forms a very beautiful, small, evergreen tree. The flowers are 

 white, in cymes, numerously produced. We have seen it grow very freely in the 

 open air of this country, and it proves quite hardy. 



Linum trigynum. Three-styled Flax. (Pax. M»g. Bot.) Linaceae. 

 Pentaudria Pentagynia. It was introduced into this country from the Kast 

 Indies many years ago, and is treated now as a greenhouse plant. It is a very 

 abundant bloomer, and a highly ornamental one when in flower. If it be grown 

 in a hot-house it blooms from December to April. If in a greenhouse it blooms 

 from May to the end of summer. It is a suffruticose (somewhat shrubby) 

 shrub, growing about two feet high. The flowers are produced in terminal 

 as well as lateial spikes. Each blossom is about two inches and a half acioss, 

 of a rich orange-yellow colour. It deserves to be in every collection, and may be 

 procured cheap. 



Nerilm Oleander, var. Tangle. Striped-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) 

 Apocynaceae. Pentaudria Monogynia. This very pretty flowering plant is 

 supposed to be of continental origin. The flowers are semi-double, produced in 

 laige clustered heads, each blossom being two inches and a half across, of a 

 deep crimson, striped with white and pink. The plant blooms when about nine 

 inches high. It deserves to be in every greenhouse. 



Phlomis Cakumkuiana. Cashmere Phlomis. (Bot. Reg. 22.) Labial*. 

 Didynamia Gymnospermia. It is from the valley of Cashmere, a hardy pe- 

 rennial, growing about two feet high, blooming from June to September. Tho 

 flowers are produced in whorls, which fotm long spikes; they are of a pretty- 

 lilac colour. 



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