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PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



FROM PERIODICALS. 



Batatas betacea. — Beet-rooted Sweet Potato. (Bot. Reg. 56.) Convol- 

 vulaceae. Pentandria Monogynia. A native of Demerara, and, according to 

 the statement of Mr. May, of Leeming Lane Nursery, who had it first for sale 

 in this country, it succeeds well when grown in a good greenhouse. The root 

 is large, fleshy, like the Red Beet. The flowers are produced in clusters, in the 

 way of Ipomea coerulea, whitish, with a rosy pink hue, and a dark inside, giving 

 it a very pretty appearance. Kach blossom is about two inches long, and an 

 inch and a half across the mouth. We have found it grow well in a small 

 plant stove, and bloom freely. It well merits a place in every warm greenhouse, 

 conservatory, or plant stove. 



Cai.anthe discolor. — Discoloured Fairbloom. (Bot. Reg. 55.) Orchidacese. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Probably a native of either Japan or Java, but very 

 probably the former. The flowers are produced on a loosish raceme ; sepals and 

 petals of a wine-red colour : lip of a rosy white. It requires to be grown in the 

 stove, and, like all the other Calanthes, to be grown in a pot, in a good brown- 

 coloured peat soil, and the pot to be well drained. 



Cystantke sprengelioides. — Sprengelia like. (Bot. Mag. 3826.) Epa- 

 crideae. Pentandria Monogynia. A native of Van Diemen's Land, and has 

 bloomed in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, seeds of it having been sent there 

 by N. B. Ward, Esq., London. The plant is shrubby, the branches growing 

 erect. The flowers are produced singly up the stem, so as to form spikes, and 

 crowded at the extremity to a head : they are of a greenish yellow, small. 



Echeveria secunda. — One-sided. (Bot. Reg. 57.) Crassulaceae. Decan- 

 dria Pentagynia. A greenhouse plant of very easy management, which blooms 

 for many months during summer. Its appearance is somewhat like the common 

 House-leek. The flowers are produced on a recurving raceme, red outside and 

 yellow within, in the form of Erica ventricosa, a little more bulging, but 

 shorter. 



Haudenbergia digitata. — Finger-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 60.) Leguminosae. 

 Diadelphia Decandria (Synonym Kennedya macrophylla). A native of the 

 Swan River colony. It was raised from seed by a Mr. Toward, gardener to 

 H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, at Bagshot. The plant is a climber, and 

 flourishes in a nivenhouse or conservatory, grown in equal parts of loam and 

 sandy peat. The flowers are produced in racemes, each of which are many- 

 flowered, of a pretty violet colour. The plant when trained to a wire frame 

 would be a very interesting object, and well deserving a place in every green- 

 house, &c. 



Hymenoxys Calieornica. — Cahfornian. (Bot. Mag. 3823.) Composite, 

 Senecionideai. Syngenesia Supeiflua. A native of California, raised in the 

 Glasnevin Botanic Garden, by Mr. Moore. It is a hardy annual, growing a foot 

 high, foliage smooth, very pinnate. The flowers are yellow, each being about 

 an inch across. 



Lkmonia spkctabilis. — Beautiful. (Bot. Reg. 59.) Rutacose. Pentandria 

 Monogynia. A native of Cuba, and imported from thence by Messrs. Loddiges, 

 witli whom it has bloomed in the stove. The foliage is somewhat like that of a 

 Psoralea or Laburnum, only being trifoliate. The flowers are of a rosy crimson 

 colour, each being about an inch across. This pretty genus is named in com- 

 pliment to a most distinguished patron and promoter of botany, and in fact 

 every other useful science, — Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., whose garden at 

 Carclew, in Cornwall, under the skilful management of Mr. Booth, ranks 



