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same manner ; sepals and petals of a lively greenish-yellow, strongly 

 blotched with rich chestnut-brown ; the lip is of a rich crimson, with 

 its base of a bright rose colour. Each flower is two inches across. It 

 is a very beautiful species, well deserving a place in any collection. 

 (Figured in Paxt07is Floiver Garden, No. 6.) 



Rhodoleia Championi. — Captain Champion's Rhodoleia. 



This is a small tree-like plant, received from Hong Kong; and 

 Captain Champion, writing from tliat place, says, " This is admitted 

 by all here to be the liandsomest of Hong Kong flowering trees, and 

 new to Europeans till I discovered it in February last. It is a small 

 tree; but probably, like the Camellia, would bloom profusely as a 

 shrub, each brancli bearing from six to eight flowers. Tiie flowers are 

 borne at the extremities of the numerous branches ; each blossom is 

 two inches and a-half across; sepals (calyx) about twelve, a rich 

 brown colour ; petals eighteen, of a bright rose colour, and the interior 

 filled up with from thirty to fifty stamens, with large brown anthers. 

 The fruit is about the size of a hazel-nut. In growth it exactly re- 

 sembles those of Camellia Japonica, and about of the same hardihood. 

 Seeds of it have been sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew ; but they 

 failed to vegetate. A specimen was sent, and a drawing made by a 

 Chinese artist was also sent, and now it is figured in the Bot. Mag., 

 4509. 



Flowers in bloom at the Rotal Kew Gardens. 



The following very superb Cinerarias were in fine bloom, viz. : — 

 Alboni. — White, with a broad lavender margin. 

 Eleanor. — White, with a rose margin. 

 Annie.— White, edged with plum colour. 

 Rosamond. — White, with bright rose tip. 

 Cerito. — White, edged with lavender. 

 Wellington. — Disk blue, next white and purple margin. 

 Nymph. — Lilac purple disk, rest white. 



Climax. — Dark disk, next run of pure white, margin of rosy violet. 

 Coronet. — Disk buff, white, tipped with purple. 

 RosETTA. — Deep rosy purple, with dark disk. 

 Gardoni. — Purplish-red, showy. 

 Bessy. — Dark purple velvet. 



Adela Villiers. — Disk buff, white, with crimson purple margin. 

 Nymph. — Disk violet, petals white. 



W^ELLiNGTON. — Blue disk, white, with purple crimson margin. 

 Mademoiselle Peroda. — Disk dark, white, with violet tip. 

 Cerito. — White, with a beautiful lavender margin. 

 Gardoni. — Purple crimson, large, showy. 

 Carlotta Grisi. — Disk buff, white, tipped with rosy-violet. 

 Amanda. — White, edged with fine blue. 



Triumphans. — Disk gilded with yellow anthers, and petals a rich 

 blue. 



