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yellow colour. They have a delicious violet fragrance. It is a lovely 

 plant, grows very freely, and blooms profusely. The spikes of flowers 

 are nearly a foot long. 



Clianthus Dampieri. — Dampier's Clianthus. (Synonymes, C. 

 Oxleyi, Kennedya speciosa, and Donia speciosa.) Tins handsome 

 flowering plant has been raised from seed sent from New Holland to 

 Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, in whose nursery it has bloomed. It is a 

 greenhouse perennial trailing plant. The foliage is like C. puniceus, 

 pinnate, but the leaves more wide apart and larger. The flowers are 

 borne in umbellate pendant lieads of four or five in each. The standard 

 is of a bright scarlet, with a deep purple stain at the base. Tlie keel 

 and wings are scarlet, much like those of C. puniceus. Each blossom 

 is four inches across. It is said to be one of the greatest ornaments of 

 the desert regions of Australia. It is readily cultivated and well 

 merits a place in the greenhouse. (Figured in Paxton's Flower Gar- 

 den, No. 10.) 



Clidanthera rsoRALioiDES. — This is one of a new genus of the 

 pea-flowered order of plants. It is a native of New Holland, a half- 

 shnibby plant. The flowers are white, and produced in spikes. It 

 grows two feet high. 



Galanthus plicatus. — A much finer snowdrop than the old one 

 of our gardens. The blossoms are white and green ; the latter colour 

 very distinct, contrasting well with the white. They are larger than 

 tlie common kind. 

 ^ Hedychium chrysoleucum. — Golden and M'hite garland flower. 

 This is a fine old stove plant, growing four to five feet high. The 

 flowers are borne in large spiked heads of numerous blossoms, each 

 blossom being two to three inches across, of a pure wliite with a bright 

 ricli orange centre. They are deliciously fragrant. It blooms at the 

 end of sununer and autumn, and well merits a place in the stove. 

 Like tlie tribe of Carmao it requires a good share of room. (Figured 

 in Bot. Mag., 4516.) 



HoYA purpurea-fdsca. — Brown purple flowered. Mr. Lobb found 

 this interesting species in Java, and forwarded it to his employers, 

 Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter. He states " it is a liandsonie climber, 

 common in the woods at Panarang." It has bloomed in profusion iu 

 the stove at Exeter. It is a twining, smooth, branching shrub. The 

 flowers are produced iu heads similar to the H. carnosa. The corolla 

 is of an asliy-brown colour, and the centre crown of a rich purple- 

 brown. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4520.) 



HoYA coriacea. — Coriaceous (leathery) leaved. Mr. Lobb dis- 

 covered this species in Java on Mount Salak, and it has bloomed in 

 the stove at Messrs. Veitch's nursery. It is a vigorous climber, leaves 

 large, and tlie flowers in similar formed iieads to H. carnosa, and are 

 of a pale tawny-brown colour. This interesting tribe of climbing 

 plants now known by botanists consists of about fifty described 

 species, wiiich are generally found inhabiting the moist woods of tro- 

 pical India, and the Malayan Islands. The present species is figured 

 in Bol. Mag., 4518. 



Medimlla magxifica. — The Magnificent. Tliis fine species was 



