218 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
the flowers generally larger than what our artist, for convenience of 
arrangement, has drawn them. 
RanuncuLtvses.—We proposed giving the present plate of these. 
charming varieties, along with those we gave in our July Number, but 
we found it impracticable at the time, so as to have them well exe- 
cuted. They form part of the superb collection, shown by Mr. Carey 
Tyso, of Wallingford, at one of the recent exhibitions in the Horti- 
cultural Gardens at Chiswick. The names of the collection we in- 
serted in our July and August Magazine, they highly deserve cul- 
tivation. 
NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
DIELYTRA SPECTABILIS—MOUTAN DIELYTRA. 
Fumariacee. Diadelphia Hexandria. (Syn. Fumaria spectabilis.) 
Tuts is a fine and hardy herbaceous plant, which Mr. Fortune sent 
from China to this country. It is an especial favourite with the 
Chinese mandarins, and is much cultivated in their gardens. It isa 
native of the north of China, and with a layer of tan, leaves, &c., over 
the roots in winter, no doubt it will prove quite hardy in our own 
country, if the subsoil be tolerably dry. It flourishes in loam and peat. 
It makes a very showy greenhouse plant. Most of our readers know 
the Fumaria tribe of flowers, this is of the order, but the blossoms are 
very much larger. They are of deep rose-red, with the inner petals 
nearly white. A single flower is an inch and a-half long. They are 
drooping, and in large racemes. It merits a place in every greenhouse, 
frame, or flower garden. After the decay of the flower stems, it should 
only have just enough water to keep it barely moist, till the growing 
period arrives. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 4458.) 
GARDENIA SHERBOURNII—Mrs. SHERBOURNE'’S. 
This very beautiful species is a native of Sierra Leone, from whence 
it was received by Mrs. Sherbourne, of Hurst House, near Prescott, 
in Lancashire. It is an evergreen climbing plant. The flowers are 
bell-shaped, one inch and a-half long, and about the same across the 
mouth. White without, and a deep red inside. It flourishes, like all 
the Gardenia’s, in a compost of rough peat, leaf mould, and silver 
sand, with the pots well drained. It deserves a place in every stove or 
warm greenhouse, (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
GESNERA CORUSCANS—SHINING FLOWERED. 
A native of South America, in the collection of Messrs. Knight 
and Perry, nurserymen, Chelsea. The flowers are produced on long 
slender peduncles, drooping. Each flower is uearly three inches long, 
of ashining scarlet colour. It is a handsome species. (Figured in 
Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
NEMATANTHUS IONEMA—DARK BLOOD-COLOURED. 
Gesneriacee. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
A very striking species, the flower stalks are five inches long. 
Calyx a rich purple tube, and each segment green. Corolla a rich 
