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» Hardenbergia digitata. — From the Swan River Colony. A greenhouse 

 twiner, with handsome flowers produced in a dense raceme. 



Anagai.lis alteunifolia. — From Rio Jan-iro. It has bloomed in the line 

 collection of Sir \V. Lemon at Carclew. An herbaceous plant, with trailing 

 shoots. Flowers yellowish, tinged with pink. 



Stanhopea Barkerii. — A variety of S. Wardii, very handsome, without the 

 eye-like spots of the latter, and the anterior of the lip of a delicate white. It is 

 very fragrant too. 



Bracuvcome ibeuidh-'olia. — From the Swan River, raised by Mrs. Wray of 

 Cheltenham. It is a hardy annual, of the natural order Compositae, with finely 

 cut leaves like the Nigella, and flowers of a very deep blue. It grows about a 

 foot high. There is a white variety too not yet introduced. 



Hibiscus Wra\;e.— From Swan River, raised too by Mrs. Wray. The plant 

 is a handsome greenhouse shrub. The flower about five inches across, of a pretty 

 lilac colour. This is doubtless a very valuable acquisition. 



Angr.ecum iiii.or.uM. — An orchidea from Cape Coast Castle. It has 

 bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are produced in pendent racemes, 

 of a snow white, slightly tipped with pink. 



Epiuenorum lancikolium. — From Mexico. Bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. 

 Flowers like E. Cochleatum, but the lip" is a pale yellow striated with deep 

 purple. 



Denurobium herbaceum. — From the East Indies. Bloomed in the Messrs. 

 Loddiges's. Flowers green. 



Oncidium ramosum. — From Brazil. Bloomed with Mesurs. Loddiges. A 

 very fine flowering species, of a pale yellow colour. 



Sciiizonotus tomentosus. (Synonym. Spirea Lindleyana.) — From the 

 Northern provinces of India. A handsome shrub, having the appearance of 

 Spirea Sorbifolia. It has not yet bloomed in Hurt. Society's Garden, but Dr. 

 Liudley remarks that specimens he has seen are in large panicles. 



Ophelia purfurescens. — From the Northern parts of India. An herbaceous 

 plant, with starry like pink coloured flowers. It is probably only annual, and 

 likely to be hardy. 



Spirea rotlndifolia. — From Cashmere ; appears to be hardy, and quite new 

 to this country. It has not yet bloomed in the Hort. Society's Garden. 



FROM PERIODICALS. 



Allium ccsruleum. — Blue Leek. (Bot. Reg. 51.) Liliaceae. Hexandria 

 Monogynia. From the salt plains of Asiatic Russia, near the Irtisch river, and 

 found too on the Altai mountains, where it blooms profusely in May and June. 

 It is a bulbous plant, growing about half a yard high, quite hardy. The flowers 

 are produced in a globose umbel of two inches in diameter, each flower being 

 near half an inch across, of a beautiful bright blue. It blooms freely in the 

 beds of the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 



Aphelandra ciustata. — Crested. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 173.) Acanthaceoe. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. A hot-house plant of great beauty, when properly 

 grown. We have seen several splendid specimens exhibited at the Horticultural 

 Society's show at the Chiswick Garden during the present year. The plant is of 

 vigorous habit, similar to the old and well known Justicia coccinea. The 

 flo'wers are produced numerously iu dense spikes, each blossom being up- 

 wards of two inches long, ol' a rosy-scarlet colour. The plant may be obtained 

 ut most nurseries at a very cheap rate, and certainly deserves a place in every 

 plant stove. 



Azalea Indica, var.— Variegata. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 175.) Ericacett. Pen- 



