222 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



tandria Monogynia. This beautiful variety, it is probable, is an hybrid raised 

 between the common wbite flowered and one of the pink or red kinds. It is, how- 

 ever, one of the handsomest. The plant is a very free bloomer. The flowers are 

 large, the ground colour of a pretty pale-pink, spotted with a deep red. The edges 

 of the petals are white, forming a margin of about a quarter of an inch. The 

 plant may be had at most of the public nurseries, and certainly deserves a place 

 in every collection of this truly beautiful and profuse flowering tribe. 



Catasetum integerrimum. — Entire lipped. (Bot. Mag. 3823.) Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Monandria, sent by Mr. Skinner from Guatemala to the noble col- 

 lection at Woburn. The flowers are produced in a long raceme, they are large, 

 sepals green tinged with purple, labellum green outside tinged with purple, in- 

 side yellow blotched with deep purple. 



Clematis Montana. — Mountain Clematis. (Bot. Reg. 53.) Ranuncu- 

 lacese. Polyandiia Polygynia. From the Himalayan mountains. It is a hardy 

 climber, growing rapidly and blooming most profusely. Certainly few plants are 

 more beautiful than is this in April, May, and June, when its snow-white blos- 

 soms, tinged with a delicate pink, are produced in large clusters, and in such 

 plenty as to appear an entire mass. Lady Amherst first brought the plant into 

 this country, and it was then distributed under the name of Clematis odorata. It 

 is a most suitable plant for a trellis, arbour, &c, and deserves a place wherever 

 it can be admitted. We have grown it for the last two years, and can recom- 

 mend it 'with confidence. 



Cynogi.ossum i.ongifi.ohum. — Long flowered Hound's Tongue. Bora- 

 ginaceae. Pentandria Monogynia. A hardy perennial plant, growing about half 

 a yard high, and blooms very freely from May to August. The flowers are pro- 

 duced numerously in long erect racemes. Each blossom is about an inch long, and 

 three quarters across the mouth. On the outside of a pretty blue, inside red. 

 The plant deserves a place in every flower garden. It is readily increased by 

 seeds or division of the roots. When raised from seeds the plant does not bloom 

 till the second year. It was introduced into this country by Dr. Royle, from 

 seeds received of the Hon. East India Company, and collected in Cashmere. 



Delphinium Sinensk, vah. Floue-i>leno. — Double flowered Chinese Lark- 

 spur. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 171.) The single flowered was introduced near twenty 

 years back: it is a very beautiful flowering species, growing from six inches to a 

 foot high, blooming most profusely, and its splendid blue flowers produce a fine 

 effect. This kind deserves a place in every flower garden, and as it can be 

 obtained by seeds, and sown as an annual, it well merits attention. The double 

 flowered variety, however, exceeds the former in brilliancy, though it does not 

 bloom quite so profuse. It appears to be a perennial, growing and blooming 

 freely in the open border. In order, however, to succeed well, it requires to be 

 occasionally transplanted to another situation. This is required with some 

 others of the Delphiniums, or they too are very liable to perish. The present 

 plant is readily increased by division early in spring, or by slips taken off when 

 the shoots are three or four inches high, inserting them under a glass. 



Dendhobium Devonium. — The Duke of Devonshire's Dendrobium. (Pax. 

 Mag. Bot. 168.) Orchidaceae. Gynandria Monandria. Discovered by Mr. 

 Gibson, the Duke of Devonshire's Collector, on the Khoseea hills, hanging from 

 trees in excessively dense woods, at about 4500 feet above the level of the sea. 

 The plant introduced to the noble collection there last April and May. The 

 flower stems are very slender, drooping at the extremities, jointed ; nodes rather 

 distant. Flowers most frequently produced in clusters of three, each flower being 

 near three inches across. Sepals of a cream colour, having a considerable dash 

 of pinkish-purple. Petals fringed at the edges, cream-coloured, with less of the 

 pink tinge, but has a stain of a deeper hue at the points. Labellum cream- 

 coloured, beautifully fringed at the edges, having a large orange blotch on 

 either side of the centre. One of the loveliest flowering OrchideaB yet intro- 

 duced, and we think it is most appropriately associated with the name of the 

 noble and distinguished patron of horticulture, his Grace the Duke of Devon- 

 shire. The plant deserves a place in every collection. 



