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months. The flowers are yellow, tinged with green. It is an ever- 

 green woody creeper, forming a bushy cover, like others of the genus, 

 and is quite hardy. It is very suitable for the covering of a trellis, or 

 to be trained against a wall. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4495.) 



Clianthus formosus. — Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, possess this 

 beautiful species. It is similar in habit to the old C. puniceus. The 

 flowers are borne in axillary umbellate heads, on long footstalks. They 

 are of rich crimson colour, with a large dark shining boss at the base 

 of each blossom. 



C'oLQUHOUNiA cocciNEA.' — Scarlet flowered. Labeata, Didyna- 

 mia Gymnosperrnia. A native of Nepal. It is a tall-growing sub- 

 scandent shrub. It flourishes in the open air in this country, when 

 trained against a warm aspected wall. The flowers are produced in 

 whorls around the stem at the joints where the leaves proceed from. 

 They are small, each about half-an-inch long, of an orange-scarlet 

 colour. It bloomed profusely against a wall the latter part of summer. 

 (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4514.) 



CoNOCLiNiuM lANTHiNUM.^ — A native of Brazil ; half shrubby. 

 The flowers are produced in terminal crowded corymbous heads ; tlie 

 corolla is rose-coloured. The stigmas are very long, of a delicate 

 violet colour. It belongs to tlie natural order Eupatorieaj. It flou- 

 rislics in tlie greenhouse during summer, and it is very probable that in 

 a warm situation it would flourisli out in the open border througli tiie 

 summer. It has bloomed at the nursery of Messrs. Rollissou, of 

 Tooting, in Surrey. (Figured in Bot. Mag.') 



CvrEiPEDiUiM Lowii. — This is a very handsome species, a stove 

 perennial. The flowers are borne in racemes, or sometimes singly. 

 Sepals green tinged with purple at the base; petals long, of a greenish 

 yellow with purple blotches, and a violet purple tip at the end. It 

 was introduced by Mr. Low, of Clapton Nursery, from Borneo. It 

 blooms at tlie end of summer. 



Ci'PRiPEDiuM CAUDATUM. — Tiic long-tailed Lady's Slipper. A 

 greenhouse herbaceous plant from Peru ; found growing in marshy 

 places near Numegal, in Quito. It lias recently bloomed in the fine 

 collection of Mrs. Lawrence at Ealing Park. 



In most species the petals are very short, but in the present species 

 tliey grow to the length of eighteen inches, forming narrow tails, which 

 hanging down, wave in the wind. The sepals are nearly six inches 

 long, of a greenish-yellow. The lip (slipper-shaped) is two inches and 

 a half long, of a pale yellow, tinged and spotted with rose colour. The 

 flower stem rises two feet high, and bears several flowers. The growth 

 of the long petals is surprising, extending about eighteen inches in four 

 days. (Figured in Puxton^n Flower Garden, plate 9.) 



DiPTERACANTHUS SFECTABiLis. — Ilandsome flowered. This very 

 liandsome floweiiiig species was discovered by Mr. Lobb on tlie Andes 

 of Peru, and seeds were sent to Messrs. Veitch, and tlie plant has 

 bloomed in the stove at their nursery. It is a soft-wooded plant, 

 growing two feet high, and succeeds in a warm greenhouse. It blooms 



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