98 : NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
JESCHYNANTHUS MINIATIS— V ERMILION-FLOWERED. 
A native of Java, sent by Mr. Lobb to Messrs. Veitch. It requires 
to be grown in the stove and in the shade. It is of a similar habit to 
the other species now usually in our collections, The flowers are 
borne in terminal clusters; tube an inch long, wide, of a rich ver- 
milion-red, tinged with yellow in the throat and having purple bars. 
It is a very beautiful flowering species, well deserving a place in the 
stove. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
BoronIA TRIPHYLLA. 
The flowers are borne in profusion, of a rich rosy-pink colour, and 
the plant blooms through the winter. It deserves a place in évery 
greenhouse. 
CurRCUMA CORDATA—HEART-LEAVED. 
It is one of the Scitaminez order of plants, and was discovered by 
Dr. Wallich in the bamboo woods of India. It is a stove plant, herba- 
ceous. ‘The flowers are produced in a spike; they are like a small 
Snapdragon, half-an-inch across the mouth; they just protrude out of 
the green bracts of the spike, and are yellow and deep pink. The 
crown of the spike is very beautiful, two or three inches of the bracts 
being of a rich violet colour, having a large deep blood-coloured spot 
upon the tip of each. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4435.) 
DIPLADENIA UROPHYLLA—TAPER-POINTED. 
A native of the Organ Mountains of Brazil. Mr. Lobb sent it to 
Messrs. Veitch. It requires to be grown in the stove. It is an 
upright-growing evergreen bush, not a climber. The flowers are pro- 
duced three or four together, in short drooping racemes, at the axils of 
the leaves. The tube is about an inch and a half long, and at the 
widest part three-quarters across; outside of a pretty light yellow 
colour; the limb is five-parted, and spreading an inch and a half, of a 
rich rose; and the inside, or throat, a rich yellow. It grows freely in 
a well-drained soil of heath-mould, light loam, and a portion of sand. 
It requires a season of rest, and consequently little water at-the period, 
but in the growing state it requires a good supply, and to be grown in 
a damp atmosphere. (Figured in Pax. Mag. of Gardening.) 
ERiorsis RUTIDOBULBON—ROUGH-STALKED. 
A stove orchidew, from New Grenada. It has recently bloomed in 
the Royal Gardens of Kew. ‘The scape of flowers was half-a-yard 
long, bearing a drooping raceme of flowers. Sepals and petals a dull 
orange-yellow, red-purple at the edge; lip white, with dark purple 
spots; the rest of the labellum is a dull orange-red, spotted with 
purple. A separate flower is an inch and a half across, (Figured in 
Bot. Mag., 4437.) 
ERIOSTEMON INTERMEDIUM—THE INTERMEDIATE. 
' A native of New South Wales. This pretty plant was exhibited at 
the Horticultural Society’s Show, by R. Barclay, Esq., of Knott’s 
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