248 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



amongst the first in the country for new and interesting plants, as well as for 

 well cultivated ones. 



Liatris propinqua. — Sharp-scale spiked. (Bot. Mag. 3829.) Composite. 

 SyDgenesia ^qualis. A hardy herbaceous plant, blooming freely during the 

 end of summer and autumn. The flowers are numerous, produced on a spike 

 which rises about half a yard high : they are of a rosy pink colour. 



Rhododendron arboreum. — Cinnamomeum, floribus roseis. Tree Rhodo- 

 dendron ; cinnamon leaved variety, with rose-coloured flowers. (Bot. Mag. 38 25.) 

 Ericea;. Decandria Monogynia. This very splendid flowering Rhododendrou 

 bloomed during the last season in the Manchester Botanic Garden. The 

 curator, Mr. Campbell, remarks: — " We have flowering bunches on it upwards 

 of double the size of that herewith sent." The one sent was about eight inches 

 in diameter, and each blossom about three inches long and two and a half in 

 diameter at the mouth ; of a beautiful rosy white, tinged with 5 f ellow inside, and 

 beautifully spotted with deep blood red. It is by far the handsomest flowering 

 kind we have seen. 



Senecio Heritieri, var. Cyanophthalmus. — Heritier's Groundsel, blue-eyed 

 var. (Bot. Mag. 3827.) Compositae. Syngenesia superflua (Synonym Cine- 

 raria Capitula). This is a very beautiful flowering greenhouse plant, and has 

 bloomed in the garden of — Clelland, Esq., Rosemount, near Belfast, Ireland. 

 It very much resembles the old and well-known Cineraria lanata, but the flowers 

 are very different in structure and colour. The petals of the ray are of a pure 

 white, and the centre of a bright blue, with purple black anthers. 



Tagetks corymbosa. — Corymb-flowered Marigold. (Bot. Mag. 3830.) Com- 

 positae. Syngenesia superflua. Seeds of this plant had been received of Mr. 

 Leeds, of Manchester, from Mexico, and has bloomed in the open border. It is 

 an annual, flowering numerously. The flowers are of a pretty yellow, stained 

 with a blood-coloured orange. It is a very neat and pretty addition to our 

 anuual border flowers. 



NOTICED IN BOTANICAL REGISTER, NOT FIGURED. 



Betui.a. — This birch, the finest of the Himalayan species, has at length been 

 introduced by the East India Company, who presented its seeds to the Horti- 

 cultural Society. It will doubtless be perfectly hardy, as, according to Dr. 

 Royle, it, and the other species of that country, occupy the loftiest situations in 

 the mountains. Dr. Wallieh has given the following account of the species in 

 the Planta; Asiaticee rariores, vol. ii. p. 7: — 



*' The epidermis of this species of birch is used by the mountaineers instead 

 of paper for writing upon. It is of a very delicate texture, and peels off in large 

 masses, of which great quantities are brought down into the plains of Hindus- 

 tan, where it is employed for covering the inside of the long flexible tubes of the 

 apparatus used for smoking tobacco, commonly called Hooka. The Sanscrita 

 name of the substance is Bhoorja ; in the Bengali language, Bhoorjapattra ; 

 and in the Hindustani, Bhojpattra. My worthy friend, Mr. Graves Haughton, 

 Oriental Examiner to the Honourable East India Company, to whom I am 

 indebted for the above synonyms, is of opinion that the word Bhoorja is the 

 etymon of birch, and that it is one of the many proofs of tha descent of the 

 Saxon part of the English language from the Sanscrita. ' 



Spiraea pissa. — A name given to a species of Spiraea from Mexico, received 

 by the Horticultural Society from Mr. Hartweg, who transmitted no specimens, 

 but who calls it "a very fine shrub, near S. arioefulia." It is a handsome looking 

 plaut: it is quite distinct from any previously discovered. 



Bai.bophyli.um mmbatum. — This otchidea Messrs. Loddiges received from 

 Singapore. The flowers are of a deep dull purple; the sepals and petals are 

 both fringed with whitish hairs. 



Drnorouium i.angiou.e. — A singular kind, belonging to the same section as 



