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the colour of the interior of the throat being of a deep rose colour ; 
the flowers borne in a racemose arrangement at the ends of the branches ; 
they are of a rich, deep, rosy-pink colour, and about two inches in 
diameter. Native of Brazil. Introduced in 1847 to the Belgian 
Gardens. 
EPrIpDENDRUM SULPHUREUM—SULPHUR-FLOWERED. 
The flowers are numerous, and produced in short racemes, usually 
from eight to ten in number, and forming a graceful panicle. The 
petals and sepals are of equal size, of a uniform sulphur colour. The 
labellum is three-lobed ; the two side ones red, and beautifully lined 
with rose-colour, which terminates at the column in red streaks. 
Native of Guatemala. In the Belgian Gardens. 
PENTSTEMON OVATUM, VAR. ATRO-C@RULEUM—DARK-BLUE 
VARIETY. 
A very showy perennial plant, growing from three to four feet high. 
The flowers form a loose many-flowered leafy panicle, and are tubular, 
the tube being about half an inch in length, and separating into a five- 
lobed limb, of about half an inch in diameter; the colour, as the name 
implies, is a fine dark blue, deepening near the extremities, and merging 
into a bluish green towards the calyx; the throat is of a yellowish 
tinge. A very desirable species. Native of the mountains of Columbia. 
THYRSACANTHUS BRACTEOLATUS.—A plant which formerly be- 
longed to the Justicia. It inhabits New Grenada and the West India 
Islands. The flowers are borne in terminal panicles; tube an inch 
long, terminating in fine deeply-divided segments, of a deep scarlet 
colour. ‘The plant is half shrubby, grows from two to three feet high, 
and blooms freely. It has bloomed in the stove at Kew, and is very 
showy. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 4441.) 
DIeLyYTRA SPECTABILIS.—We shall be glad to see this plant become 
numerous, so that it may be in every garden ; we may then hope to 
see it in its true character, as in China, forming a beautiful bush, over- 
shadowed by the profusion of its large delicate rosy (Fumaria like) 
charming blossoms. It is well worth a place in every garden. 
RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM HYBRIDUM.—We have seen a few 
noble plants of this splendid variety in bloom; the large heads of rich 
scarlet flowers produce a most brilliant effect. It deserves to be in 
every garden or shrubbery. 
GARDENIA STANLEYANA.—In the noble collection at Sion House, 
Dowager Duchess of Northumberland’s, there is a splendid specimen 
in bloom, having about two hundred expanded flowers. ‘The plant is 
about five feet high, and as much across. 
MirrariA coccinea.—In one of our volumes we figured this most 
beautiful flower. A handsome bushy plant was exhibited at the recent 
exhibition held in the Regent’s Park Garden by Messrs. Veitch. Its 
large bulging tube-formed flowers, an inch and a-half long and half an 
inch across, of a rich scarlet colour, hanging on long footstalks, had a 
charming appearance. It deserves to be in every collection of green- 
house plants. 
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