152 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
racemes, the stems growing erect. Each blossom is eight inches 
across, of a rich deep purple-rose colour. The lip is five inches across, 
tubular at its base, but spreading broadly above, and having a pale 
yellow heart-shaped spot at the base. ‘This splendid flowering plant 
has slender reed-like stems, growing from two to ten or more feet 
high. Ina mixture of sandy-peat, light loam, and a little leaf mould, 
it grows admirably, and is easy of cultivation. It requires to be ina 
cool part of the Orchid-house. It deserves to be in every collection. 
(Figured in Bot. May. 4446.) 
SrEMONACANTHUS MACROPHYLLUS— LARGE FLOWERED. 
Acarthacee. Didynamia Angiospermia. 
A. native of New Grenada, from whence it was sent to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew. It blooms in the stove during the whole summer 
season. It is a half shrubby plant growing a yard high, branching. 
The flowers are produced in long spreading panicles. The flowers 
very much resemble in form those of the well-known favourite Ruellia 
formosa. The tube is from two to three inches long, and across the 
expanded five-parted limb nearly two inches, of a bright scarlet colour. 
It is a beautiful flowering plant, easily cultivated, and well deserving 
a place in every collection. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 4448.) 
RueEvwiA PurpIANA—Mnr. Purpie’s. 
It is a stove-plant growing two feet high. ‘The flowers are tubular- 
funnel-shaped, about two inches long and one and a-half across the 
(mouth) limb. They are of a rosy-crimson colour. (Figured in Pax. 
Mag. Bot.) 
ALSTR@MERIAS. 
A. Ruseitia.—Sepals six, lower one wedge-shaped, of a pale rose 
colour; the two upper ones broader, of a rich orange-yellow, bordered 
with rose colour and striped with red. 
A. Lasiarsa.—Lower sepals of a deep rose colour; upper ones a 
deep orange striped with dark red. 
A. Marcinata,—Lower sepals white margined with rose; upper 
ones pale yellow striped with red. 
A. ALrens.—Lower sepals white, tipped with pale rose colour ; 
two upper ones dull yellow tinged and striped with deep rose. 
A. PuLcHELLA RUBRA.— Lower sepals pale rose; upper ones 
orange yellow striped with red. 
These handsome hybrids are figured in Pazxton’s Magazine of 
Botany for June from specimens furnished by Messrs. Backhouse, of 
York. They flourish, as do other Alstreemerias, in a compost of rich 
turfy loam, peat, and sand, in equal portions. 
VERBENAS. 
The following are the best out of a number of French seedlings 
which we have seen this season :— 
MapameE Brunzor (Chauviere), white with a deep crimson eye, 
large, of excellent form and very distinct; one of the best. 
TALLEYRAND (Defosse), lilac shaded and streaked with blue-purple, 
good form, Jarge trusser, aud a yery pleasing variety. 
