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mandel Mountain. Messrs. Knight and Perry, of the King's Road 

 Nursery, received it from Mr. Makoy, of Leige, under the name of 

 Fridericea G-iilielma. It, however, proves to be a very different plant. 

 It is a smooth, shining-leaved yellowish-looking shrubby plant, a 

 climber of medium habit. The flowers are produced in clusters, and 

 on the present cultivated plant tliere were seven flowers in a cluster. 

 It is said that in its natural situation as many as thirty blossoms are 

 borne in a single cluster. Each blossom is two inches long, trumpet- 

 shaped, and nearly as much across the mouth, the end curving out- 

 wards, and the edge divided into five nearly equal spreading lobes. 

 The flower is of a thick leathery substance, and a deep yellow colour. 

 It is grown in a pot at Messrs. Kniglit and Perry's ; but so treated it 

 does not bloom freely, and it evidently requires to be grown in a large 

 tub, or to be turned out into a bed in the stove. If the roots can receive 

 a due degree of warmth, it would very materially promote the vigour 

 and bloom of the plant. We have found this mode of treatment to be 

 very essential in blooming some other plants of the Bignoniads. In 

 its native situation it blooms very freely, atid we do not doubt of its 

 doing so in our stoves. It is a very neat climbing plant, well meriting 

 a place in every stove. It would prove to be a beautiful plant for 

 exhibition, coiled round a wire frame. (Figured in Paxto7i's Flower 

 Garden, plate 2nd.) 



Aristolochia picta. 



Mr. Van Houtt, of Ghent, possesses this pretty species. It is a 

 native of South America, a smooth twining plant. Flowers tessellated, 

 of a rich purple, and in the centre a large spot of deep yellow. 



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This very beautiful flowering species has been introduced by Messrs. 

 Rollisson, of Tooting Nursery. It is a compact-growing, climbing, 

 soft-stemmed shrub, much branched and readily increased, as the 

 trailing branches emit roots at every joint. Tlie flowers are produced 

 in terminal corymbous heads of eight or ten in each. The- corolla is 

 tube-shaped, and the limb (end of flower) of four spreading lobes ; the 

 upper one notched, the others entire. The flower is of a bright red 

 colour, having abroad irregular circle of rich yellow round the mouth. 

 This neat, handsome-flowering, trailing species, deserves a place in every 

 stove collection. It is very likely to flourish, too, in the greenhouse 

 during the warm season of the year. It does well grown in a pot, or 

 in a basket suspended. It requires a free supply of water in summer, 

 but very sparingly in winter. It should be shaded from mid-day sun, 

 as all tiie other species do. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4503.) 



Calliandra brevipes. — Short-peduncled. 



A very elegant and graceful mimosa-like shrub, growing from three 

 to four feet high, and branching much. It is a native of Brazil, and 

 was introduced into this country by Mr. Van Houtt, of Ghent. It 

 grows luxuriantly in the stove, and flowers very freely. The heads of 

 flowers are produced at the axils of the leaves. Tlie corolla is very 



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