2 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
This very lovely hardy annual is deemed the best of those discovered 
by Mr. Hartweg. 
The plant is of similar growth to the well known Nemophila insignis, 
and he considers its specific title, speciosa, not so appropriate to its 
character as maculata ; he therefore rejected the former. It is a lovely 
hardy annual, and deemed the best, of the many excellent ones, which 
Mr. Hartweg has discovered. Its habit is very similar to the well 
known Nemophila insignis, blooms as freely, and flourishes with the 
same kind of treatment. In order to have it bloom in spring, and the 
early part of summer, the seed must be sown in autumn. If the 
situation and soil be of a dry character the plants will endure the 
winter quite well, but if the situation be a damp one, and the soil wet, 
then sow in small pots, protect them in the severe parts of winter, and 
turn them out entire into the open ground early in March. To have 
a fine bloom from midsummer to autumn sow the seeds in the bed or 
 porder about the end of April, or early in May. When the soil is 
very rich, it tends to the production of occasional flowers not defined 
in colour like our figure, but veined or striped with violet ; in every 
ease, however, it is pretty, and merits a situation in every flower 
garden. 
NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
ALLAMANDA AUBLETIA—AUBLETT’S ALLAMANDA, 
Apocyne. Pentandria Monogynia. 
This very handsome flowering species has bloomed the past season in 
the fine collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter. 
Its nearest affinity is to A. Schottii, but when they are seen growing 
near together, the habit, foliage, and flowers, are very different. It is 
a weak, but scarcely a climbing shrub, it however requires a support. 
Seeds of it were sent from Brazil, and plants raised by Mr. Staunton. 
It requires to be grown in a stove, or warm greenhouse, and with 
proper treatment it blooms very profusely. The flowers are as large 
as those of A. Schottii, of a beautiful light yellow colour, and makea 
fine show. The plant ought to be in every collection, and throughout 
the summer would be one of its most attractive ornaments. 
AscLePIaAs DouGLassii—Doucuias’ ASCLEPIDE. 
Douglas discovered this species on the west side of the Rocky 
Mountains.. It has bloomed in the open border in the nursery of 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. It is an upright herbaceous plant, 
half a yard high. The flowers are borne in umbels, crowned, a reddish- 
purple tinged with green. It blooms throughout the summer. 
CHIRONIA GLUTINOSA—GLUTINOUS CHIRON. 
Gentianacee. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Seeds of this plant were sent from Australia to the Hull Botanic 
Garden. It isa neat growing, shrubby, greenhouse plant, evergreen, 
bushy, and from two to three feet high, blooming very freely. The 
