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i consequence of its deserving a place in every hot-house. It delights in a 

 moist stove-heat, and to have a liberal supply of water. The plant strikes freely 

 frj m cuttings, grows rapidly, and will bloom profusely when not more than a foot 

 high. The plant is an evergreen, and the flowers are produced in large panicled 

 heads, of a rich crimson scarlet. It was sent from Ceylon to this country 



Corethastylis bracteata. Rosy-armed. (Bot. Reg. 47.) Lasiopetalea? • 

 Pentandiia Monogynia. It is a greenhouse shrub, a native of the Swan River 

 Colony, and is in the collection of Mr. Groom, of the Clapham Nursery, near 

 London. The coloured bracts form the beauty of the plant ; they are produced 

 profusely, forming a large cymous head, composed of numerous racemes of the 

 coloured bracts ; they are of pretty rose colour having a crimson centre. Each 

 bloom, in its uative 1 growth, is half an inch across. It is a very pretty and inte- 

 resting plant, well deserving a place in every greenhouse. It has a sweet 

 scented foliage. 



Epidendrum kadiatuji. Ray-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 45.) Orchidacea\ 

 Gynandria Monandna. Sent from Mexico to the garden of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society. The flowers are produced in a dense raceme, of six or eight 

 in each. A separate blossom is about an inch and a half across, sepals and 

 petals white, stained with greenish-yellow. Labellum white, streaked with 

 purple. 



Eucalyptus Splachnicarpon. Spi.AciiNUM-yRuiTEn. (Bot. Mag. 4036.) 

 Myrtaceae. Icosandria Monogynia. A native of South Australia, where the 

 plant attains to a noble tree. In this country it forms, in the greenhouse, a tree 

 about five yards high. The flowers are large, produced in noble terminal heads. 

 Each blossom, composed of the thread-like stamens an inch long, forming a 

 yellowish globose head. 



Gastrolobium spinosuji. Spinous-leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Legumi- 

 nosa;. Decandria Monogynia. Seeds of this very beautiful flowering plant 

 were imported from the Swan River Colony to this country by Captain James 

 Mangles, R.N., and by that truly generous gentleman distributed liberally. It 

 has received, in some of the London nurseries, the name of Chorozema opposi- 

 tifolia, but it is a Gastrolobium. The leaves have much the appearance of a 

 Chorozema. It is an evergreen shrub. The flowers are produced profusely in 

 terminal clusters, each lateral shoot having one. They are of a rich orange, 

 having a bright yellow eye surrounded with red. The keel is of a deep orange, 

 with reddish purple wings. The plant was first raised in this country by Mr. 

 Young, of the Epsom Nursery. It deserves to be in every greenhouse. 



Gastrolobium acutum. Sharp-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4040). Leguminosae. 

 Decandria Monogynia. Mr. Drummond sent seeds of this pretty flowering 

 plant from the Swan River Colony to the Royal Gardens at Kew. It is a green- 

 house shrub, growing about two feet high, with numerous angular stalked 

 branches. The flowers are produced numerously in short racemes. The 

 standard is of a rich yellow, and red at the base. The wings yellow, the keel 

 yellow, with the upper portion red. It deserves a place in every greenhouse. 



Gloxinia speciosa. Garden varieties. (Bot. Reg. 48.) Four varieties 

 were recently raised by Mr. Carton, gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, 

 at Sion, and distinguished as G. magnifica, pale rosy pink, with a streak of 

 yellow inside the tube. G. insignis, tube rose, and a portion of the two upper 

 divisions of the limb is rose, margined with white ; the three lower divisions 

 nearly wholly white ; there is a streak of greenish yellow down the inside of the 

 tube. G. bicolor, pale blue, with a yellow streak down the inside of the tube, 

 and a whitish margin to the two upper divisions of the limb. G. cartoni, tube 

 deep rosy-red, with a white and greenish yellow down the inside. 



Isopogon scauer. Rolgii-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4037.) Proteaceae. Te- 

 trandria Monogynia. Mr. Drummond sent seeds of this plant from the Swan 

 River Colony to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it recently bloomed. The 

 heads of the flowers are about two inches in diameter, of a pretty rose colour, 

 with some of deep purple. 



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