NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 19' 



four or five in each, of a fine yellow colour. Each blossom is about two inches 

 long, the mouth of the corolla being five-parted, and about an inch across. 



8. MACHOPomuM MVALE-Siberian. (Bot. Mag. 3805.) Cmcifer*. Tetra- 

 dynamia Siliquosa. (Synonym, Cardamme nivalis. Arabia niva is.) A native 

 of the Altaic mountains. It is a hardy perennial creeper. The flowers are 

 produced in spikes, petals white, very small; sepals ot a pale green. 



9. Oncidium HDNTiAsim—Mr. Hunt's. (Bot. Mag. 3800.) Orchidace*. 

 Gynandria Monandria. A native of Brazil, sent from thence to the W oburn 

 collection. The flowers are produced on a compound raceme. Each flower is 

 about au inch across, white beautifully spotted with red. 



10. Milton.* sPECTABiLE.-Showy. (Pax. Mag. Bot 97.) Orchidace*. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Imported from Brazil by Messrs. Lodd.ges, with whom 

 it has bloomed. The plant has always a sickly stunted appearance, but its 

 flowers are splendid ; they are produced in a scape, each blossom being neap 

 four inches across. The sepals and petals are of a greenish white. Labellum 

 of a violet purple. 



11. Ech.tes suB EK ECTA.-Suberect. (Pax. Mag. Bot 101.) Apocyne*. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. A hothouse plant, a native ot the W est Indies. It 

 £ an evergreen twining shrub, flowering very freely, and is highly ornamental. 

 The flowers are produced in clusters, each blossom being from two to three 

 inches across, campanulate-shaped, of a tine deep yellow colour. 



12. BouvARoiAANGUSTiFOLiA.-Navrow-leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 99.) Ru- 

 hiacece Tetrandria Monogynia. This very pretty flowering species we saw in 

 boom in the collection of Mr. Low at Clapton, who raised it from seeds sent 

 from Mexico? The flowers are, on the outside, a little paler than those o the 



ve™known and justly admired species B. triphylla, and the inside is of a lilac- 

 pmk colour, producing a very pretty contrast. The plant was introduced some 

 Tars back into this country/but is very scarce. It ought, however, to be in 

 every greenhouse or conservatory. It flourishes, if grown in the open ground 

 dunnf summer. It is (like all the Bouvardias) best increased by cuttings of 

 the roots, which strike very freely. 



13. Aqbiuhha QLAUCA—Glaucous Columbine. (Bot. Reg. 46.) Ranuncu- 

 lacese. Polyandria Pentagynia. A hardy perennial. Imported from the 

 Himalaya mountains by the East India Company. It grows and blooms as 

 freelv as the common Columbine. The flower stems rise to about two feet high, 

 and the flowers are deliciously sweet, of a greenish yellow colour. It blooms in 

 May and June. 



14. Batbma«nia CoLLEH.-Mr. Colley's. (Bot. Mag. 3818) Orchidace*. 

 Gynandria Monandria. A native of Demerara, first discovered by Mr. Colley, 

 the Collector for James Bateman, Esq., Knypersly Hall, Cheshire, in compli- 

 ment to whom it is named. Colour of the sepals and petals greenish, tinged 

 with purplish led. Lip whitish, dotted inside with red ; column white, freckled 

 with red. The scape produces many flowers, each blossom being from two to 

 three inches across. 



15. Bignonia Tweediana.— Tweedie's Bignonia. (Bot. Reg. 45.) Big- 

 noniace*. Didynamia. Angiospermia. This very pretty flowering Bignonia 

 was imported into this country from Buenos Ayres, in 1838 by the Honourable 

 W F. Strangways. It is a greenhouse plant, growing very freely in loam, peat, 

 and sand. It appears to thrive best when planted out in the border of a con- 

 servatory, where it grows rapidly, soon covering a considerable space. Each 

 flower is about three inches long by two across at the mouth, ot a golden yellow 

 colour. It is a very desirable plant as a greenhouse or conservatory climber. 

 It is very probable that it would thrive and bloom well if planted aganist the 

 open wall during summer. It appears by the statements of M. de Candulle, in 

 his "Revue delafemille des Bignoniaceas," that two hundred species are known 

 by him. It is much to be regretted that more of this beautitul genus are not 

 sent to this country, especially as so many Europeans visit the native country. 



10. Brassavola glauc a.- Glaucous. (Bot. Reg. 44.) Orcludaceffl. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. It has been found growing near Xalapa in Mexico, and 



