NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS, 99 
Green, Leyton, and was awarded a prize. It is a neat branching 
bushy shrub, two to three feet high, blooming profusely at this time in 
the Royal Gardens of Kew. The flowers are white, tinged with pink, 
when in bud, but white when expanded ; in form like a small orange 
flower, half-an-inch across. It blooms copiously in the latter winter 
and early spring months. It merits a place in every greenhouse. 
(Figured in Bot. Mag., 4439.) 
LoBELIA DENSIFLORA—DENSE-FLOWERED, 
A figure of it is in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and was taken 
from a plant in bloom at the nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, of 
King’s-road, Chelsea. The spike is usually about eight inches high ; 
it forms a dense tapering mass of flowers, gradually lessening to the 
point. The blossoms are of a pretty blue, each flower about three- 
quarters of an inch long. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
[We obtained the plant several years ago, as a hybrid which had 
been raised at Alton Towers, in Staffordshire. | 
MAXILLARIA LEPTOSEPALA—NARROW-SEPALLED. 
Mr. Purdie sent this plant from New Grenada to the Royal Gardens 
of Kew, where it has recently bloomed. The flowers are produced 
solitary, upon a scape which only rises about five inches high. The 
sepals and petals are very narrow, each about two inches long—a 
yellowish-white ; lip white, beautifully veined with purple. (Figured 
in Bot. Magq., 4434.) " 
ONCIDIUM FLABELLIFERUM—FAN-LIPPED. 
A native of Brazil, from whence it was sent to Messrs. Rollisson, of 
Tooting. ‘The flower scapes rise about half-a-yard each, bearing a 
head of numerous flowers. Sepals and petals broad—a chestnut-brown, 
with tiger-like stripes of purple; labellum large, spreading, fan-shaped 
—a bright yellow, thickly spotted on the lower margin with purple- 
brown, It is one of the most beautiful of its class; the large flowers 
two inches across; the fine tiger striping and spotting, the brilliant 
yellow and dark spotting of the lip, combine to render it highly orna- 
mental and interesting. It ought to be in every collection. (Figured 
in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
PACHYSTIGMA PTELEOIDES—PTELEA-LEAVED. 
A native of Jamaica, and for the first time is in bloom in this 
country at the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has attained the height 
of eight feet. The flowers are produced in panicles, at the extremities 
of the shoots, about the size of a Buttereup—cream-coloured. (Figured 
in Bot. Mag., 4436.) 
PELARGONIUM, GEM OF THE SCARLETS. 
The flowers are of a dazzling scarlet, with a clear white eye, fine 
round form, and borne in large trusses. The leaves are very distinctly 
horse-shoe marked. A prize was awarded for it at the Regent’s Park 
Show last season. 
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