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DIELYTRA SPECTABILIS. 
This new Fumaria-like plant was brought from China by Mr. 
Fortune. When vigorous it grows half a yard high, producing three 
or four axillary racemes of flowers, each about nine inches long. The 
blooms hang down in regular succession of opening. Each flower is 
an inch and a half long, and about one wide; the exterior petals of a 
beautiful rose-colour, and the small interior ones white, with a little 
purple tip. It is a very interesting plant, and blooming freely in 
winter and early spring months, is truly a valuable acquisition. By a 
process of successive treatment, it is a likely plant to bloom all the 
year, and be an interesting object for the sitting-room, greenhouse, or 
stove. In bloom at Messrs. Knight and Perry’s. 
GESNERIA PICTA.—-PAINTED GESNERIA. 
Sent from Columbia to the collection of the Royal Gardens of Kew. 
The ‘flowers are produced ona long terminal spike-formed raceme. 
Each blossom is an inch long, ventricose-formed, scarlet with yellow 
beneath, (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4431.) 
GLOXINIA FIMBRIATA.._FRINGED-FLOWERED. 
M. Ketcheu, of Paris, sent this very handsome species to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, where it bloomed last autumn in great beauty. The 
flower is large, two inches and a half long, and nearly as much across 
the mouth ; white, with a slight tinge of lilac in some parts. Tube 
inside a deep yellow, beautifully spotted with red. It is a very distinct 
species, and highly merits a place in every collection. (Figured in 
Bot. Mag., 4480.) 
GOMPHOLOBIUM VENUSTUM.—THE BEAUTIFUL. 
Mr. Drummond discovered this lovely species at the Swan River 
colony ; seeds were sent to Messrs. Knight and Perry, and in their 
establishment at King’s-road, Chelsea, it has bloomed. It is a twining 
plant, blooming profusely. The flowers are in clusters of ten to twelve 
in each, at the ends of the branches, of a reddish-purple colour. It 
is a charming species. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
GoMPHOLOBIUM HIRSUTUM.—-THE Harry. 
Mr. Drummond also discovered this species in the same locality as 
the G. venustum. It is ofa similar habit. The flowers are produced 
in terminal clusters, of a deep rich yellow colour, (Figured in Paz. 
Mag. Bot.) 
Gompholobiums require a compost of equal portions of light loam 
and sandy heath-mould, with a little silver-sand. A free drainage, 
dry air, and judicious watering are essential to success. Half-ripened 
side-cuttings inserted in silver-sand, and placed in a gentle bottom 
heat, soon strike root. 
KENNEDYA EXIMIA—THE CHoiIcrE KENNEDYA. 
Mr. Drummond sent this handsome climbing plant from the Swan 
River colony to Messrs. Knight and Perry. It is a profuse bloomer, 
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