100 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
SALPIZANTHA COCCINEA. 
It is of the Justitia tribe; the flowers are tube-shaped, near two 
inches long, having a terminal spreading limb, of a rich bright crimson 
colour. ‘They are produced in spikes of about six inches long. It is 
in bloom at Messrs. Henderson’s. 
STIFFTIA CHRYSANTHA—GOLDEN-FLOWERED. 
Composite. Syngenesia Perdicee. 
A native of Brazil, and a plant of it at the Royal Gardens of Kew 
is tree-like, and six feet high; it has recently been in bloom there. 
The flowers are produced in erect terminal heads of eight or ten in 
each. Corolla tube-shaped, nearly two inches long, of a pale orange 
colour below and becoming darker above. The whole head is enve- 
Joped in bristle-formed hairs. ‘They are singularly pretty. (Vigured 
in Bot. Maq., 4438.) 
AT THE RoyAL GARDENS OF KEw. 
In the Greenhouse. ( Climbers.) 
HarpenBerGciA Compronrana.—In profuse bloom, trained to a 
circular wire frame five feet high. The flowers are borne in racemes 
of five or six inches long; a beautiful deep violet-blue, witha white 
eye. Very handsome and interesting, it blooms, too, a great part of 
the year. 
UH. ovara.—This, too, was trained to a wire frame four feet high, 
blooming profusely ; the flowers are of a pretty rose, tinged with 
purple. Very neat. 
H. mAcrornyiiuM.—Similarly trained. The racemes of flowers 
six inches long; a pretty light blue. 
H. piairara.—Similarly trained. Foliage very neat; flowers 
violet, in middle-sized racemes. 
BRACHYSEMA LATIFOLIA.—Similarly trained. In fine bloom; its 
large pea-shaped crimson and velvet flowers produced a pretty effect. 
KerwnnEpYA RUBICUNDA.—Similarly trained. Its pea-like red flowers, 
in full bloom, were pretty, but its show not near equal to the Brachy- 
sema. 
Cyrisus ritipEs.—A standard on a stem two feet high. The fine 
head of pure white flowers in such profusion had a charming effect in 
its contrast with the rich green by which it was surrounded. It is 
a cheap, pretty plant, well worth growing, especially as a dwarf 
standard. 
In the Greenhouse and Conservatory. 
ACACIA VESTITA.—F lowers a bright yellow, with a small neat pine- 
like foliage. Very pretty. 
A. tincaTA.—The flower heads are rather small, but of a rich deep 
yellow, and in vast profusion, The leaves are narrow, an inch long. 
This is particularly handsome, and ought to be in every greenhouse. 
A. ROTUNDIFOLIA.—Flowers a light yellow, and the leaves small. 
Very pretty. 
