138 NEW AND RARE TLANTS. 



produced in a spike, the stem being a foot high. The flowers are yellow, having 

 the lip of a deep blood-purple colour, much fringed. Each blossom is about an 

 inch across, having very narrow petals and sepals. 



Ehia bractescens. Long-biiactkd. (Bot. Reg. 29.) Orchidaceae. Gynari- 

 dria Monandria. Discovered at Sincapore by Mr. Cuming. The raceme of 

 flowers is about six inches long, erect. Each blossom Is about three quarters of 

 an inch across. Sepals and petals white, with a small crimson lip, having a 

 ■white end. 



Hibiscus Cameroni-vulgens. An hybrid raised between H. cameronl and 

 H. fulgens. It is a handsome variety. Each blossom, single, is five inches 

 across, of a rich crimson colour. It well deserves a place in the hot-house. 



Linoleya mi.spiloides. Medlar-like. (Bot. Reg. 27.) Roseacese. Ico- 

 sandria Pentagynia, A small evergreen tree, much like Mespilus grandiflora, 

 but with flowers as sweet as the Hawthorn. It is as hardy as an Escallonia. 

 Each flower is about an inch and a half across, white. 



Maclkania longikLOra. Long-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 25.) Vacciniaceae. 

 Monadtlphia Decandria. Said to be a native of Peru. It requires in this 

 country to be grown in a warm greenhouse. It is a neat compact evergreen 

 shrub, growing to the height of five feet in its native situation. The flowers are 

 produced from the axils of the leaves, usually in threes, and numerously along 

 the shoots, so as to form pretty spikes. Each flower is tubulous, an inch and 

 a half long, of a deep orange-red colour, much like a Bouvardia triphylla in 

 form and appearance. It deserves a place in every greenhouse. 



Pentas cahnea. Flesh-coloured. (Bot. Mag. 4086.) Rubiaceae. Pen- 

 tandiia Monogynia. (Synonym Sipanea carnea.) A native of Africa, said to 

 have been gathered at Accra, by some person in the Niger Expedition. It is a 

 stove plant of much beauty, somewhat in appearance like a Melastoma. The 

 plant grows a foot high, scarcely shrubby, branches herbaceous. The flowers 

 are numerously produced in terminal large corymbs of a delicate purplish-flesh 

 colour. Each blossom is near an inch across. It continues to bloom nearly 

 all the year. It well deserves a place in every stove. 



Staticbpseudo-armeria. Fai.se-tiirift. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Plumbaginaceae. 

 Pentandria Pentagynia. It is an herbaceous perennial plant. Like the well- 

 known common Thrift, it blooms in large globose heads, of a rich rose colour. 

 It is an ornamental plant lor the greenhouse, and well merits a place there; and 

 in summer will flourish well in the open.btd of the flower garden, — and in masses 

 would look well. It is to be obtained of the principal nurserymen. 



New Plants noticed in Botanical Register not figured. 



Astvria rosea. — A native of the Mauritius. It is a beautiful flowering hot- 

 house plant, and has bloomed in the collection at Syon Gardens. The flowers 

 are produced in large panicled heads, of a pink colour. 



Hipocalymma suavis. — From the Swan River Colony. It is a sweet-scented, 

 graceful, greenhouse shrub ; the flowers aie white. 



Andromeda phili.yreckfolia. — In habit it is much like abroad-leaved Andro- 

 meda polifolia. It is a narrow leaved evergreen, greenhouse plant. The flowers 

 are white. It has bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. 



Oncidium lacerum. — It has very much the habit of O. longifolium, but the 

 flowers are more dense. It has bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. 



Ptanis noticed in Nurseries, SfC. 



Aristolochia Gigas. — We formerly remarked upon the singular flowers of 

 this plant, and having recently seen it in bloom in the Horticultural Society's 

 garden, we find it to exceed the description formerly given of its singularity. 

 The flower has a leathery appearance, and half a yard across ; of a dull cream 

 colour, numerously veined with purple, which intersect each other beautifully. 

 Around the tube of the flower the colour is of a deep rich velvet purple. It has 

 a disagreeable putrid scent. The plant is a climber, and requires to be in a hot- 

 house, or warm conservatory. 



Hovea TRisPERiiA. — It is a slender growing plant, but_ blooms freely; the 



