52 notes on new or bare plants. 



Erica regalis. 

 A liybrid obtained, it is supposed, from E. vestita rosea. The 

 coronet of drooping flowers is large; in tlie one figured there are 

 thirty blossoms. Each flower is tube-shaped, an inch long, of a pretty 

 rosy-pink colour. It is in tlie collection of Messrs. Henderson, of 

 Pineapple-place Nursery. It is a valuable acquisition. 



Erica Cavendishiana. 



This hybrid was obtained in the same way that the now well-known 

 beautiful E. Cavendishii was, viz., by E. depressa being impregnated 

 with E. Patersonii. The flowers are tubular, about tiiree-quarters of 

 an inch long, of a rich deep yellow colour. It is of fine liabit, and 

 well meriting a place in every collection. 



Erica laqueatus-lutea. 



A hybrid obtained from E. tricolor-coronata, impregnated with E. 

 depressa. The flowers are ventricose (widest at the middle of tlie 

 tube), nearly an inch long. The calyx is of a bright pink colour, tlie 

 tube a pale flesh, and the end (limb) a pale yellow. It is an interesting 



variety. 



Pentstemon cordifolius — Heart-leaved. 



Mr. Hartweg found this, really a shrubby species, on the mountain 

 of Santa Inez, in California, in 1848, and seeds were sent to the Horti- 

 cultural Society. It is a weakly-spreading shrub, but having the 

 shoots stopped and properly trained it forms a neat bushy plant. The 

 flowers are numerous, tube-shaped, near two inches long, narrow, of a 

 light scarlet colour. It blooms through the summer season. (Figured 

 in Bot. 3Iay., 4497.) 



Pelargonium eximium ; or, Flower of the Day Pelargonium. 



This beautiful variety was raised by Mr. Kinghorne, gardener to tiie 

 Earl of Kilmorey, at Twickenham. It was produced by impregnating 

 Lee's Variegated Pelargonium with one of the best green varieties of 

 that section, probably the Globe compactum. The leaves are large, of 

 a deep green, with a broad border of silvery-white. The flowers are 

 of a rich cherry-red, and borne in large trusses. The plant is of a 

 dwarf, compact habit. It is a very desirable variety. (Figured in 

 Mag. of Bot.) 



Zauciineria Californica. 



Forty-five years ago this handsome flowering plant was alluded to by 

 Mr. Konig, in the " Annals of Botany," as existing in the Banksian 

 Herbarium, " a beautiful new genus, a native of California, having 

 the flowers of a Fuchsia, and a fruit exactly like Epilobium." Some 

 of the specimens then collected (it is supposed by Mr. Menzies) Sir 

 W. J. Hooker possesses. It was not further noticed till Presl pub- 

 lished it in his " Reliquse Hsenkeanffi," under the name of Zauch- 

 neria, in compliment to Dr. Zauchner, a professor of natural history in 

 the University of Prague. Presl added, though doubtfully, a second 



