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flowers are large, each near two inches across, and of a fine rosy red 
in their early stage, but when declining they have a pretty lilac tinge. 
It blooms for a very long season and is very showy, highly meriting a 
place in the greenhouse. It flourishes in a compost of equal parts of 
well rotted leaf mould, peat, and loam. 
Denprosium FarmMerit-—Mr. FarMer’s. 
Orchidacea. Gynandria Monandria. 
This very beautiful species was sent from the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden to W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., of Nonsuch Park, near Cheam, in 
Surrey. It is not a robust growing plant, but of medium habit, and 
the lovely blossoms are numerously borne on racemes. The sepals are 
spreading, of a delicate rose colour. Petals larger, of a pale primrose 
colour. Labellum, a pale straw colour, with a deep yellow blotch. 
Each flower is about two inches across. It merits a place in every 
collection. 
DIPLADENIA ECROPHYLLA—TAPER-POINTED. 
Apocynee. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Seeds of this beautiful species were received by Messrs. Veitch, of 
Exeter, the plant having been discovered on the Organ Mountains, 
Brazil, and is, consequently, a stove plant. It is a handsome bushy 
shrub, blooming freely. The flowers are produced in drooping racemes. 
Each blossom is bell-shaped ; the tube is nearly two inches long, of a 
tawny-yellow colour. The limb is formed of five sections, of a pretty 
salmon-rose. It well merits a place in the hot-house. 
GLADIOLUS BRENCHLEYENSIS. 
This is a very handsome showy variety, of a rich scarlet colour. It 
deserves a place in every flower garden, being of a strongish habit, and 
bearing long spikes of flowers; they are strikingly ornamental. 
Hoya CunniINnNGHAMII. 
Introduced into this country by Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, in whose 
collection it has recently bloomed. It is of a creeping, or climbing 
habit, the flowers being produced in corymbous heads, about twenty 
blossoms in each, they are cream-coloured, with a purplish corona in 
the centre, and are powerfully fragrant. 
PimMELEA HENDERSONII. 
In giving the descriptions of the finest plants exhibited at the Horti- 
cultural Society’s shows, &c., held the last season, we remarked upon 
the beauty of this lovely kind. The flowers are produced in profusion, 
of a bright rosy-red colour. ‘The plant is of the habit of P. decussata, 
some of the bushy plants exhibited being about three feet high, and 
almost as much across. It is a valuable acquisition for the green- 
house. 
Prieroma KuntrutAnumM—Proressor Kuntn’s PLeRoMA, 
Melastomacee. Decandria Monogynia. 
It was discovered by Mr. Gardner, when travelling in Brazil, who 
sent seeds of it to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and Mr. Murray has 
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