1 50 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PI>ANTS. 



found by Mr. Lobb in Java, where it grows in tiie forest. It is an 

 evergreen, stove, upright growing, bushy evergreen shrub, belonging 

 to tlie natural order of Melastomads. It requires to be grown in a 

 powerful moist stove heat, similar in degree to the Pitcher plants. 

 This fine species has recently been exhibited at the London shows. It 

 is a noble-looking plant, its massive leaves are a foot long and about 

 five inches broad, of a leathery texture, and of the richest green. The 

 flowers are borne numerously at the ends of the branches in large 

 pendant panicles of nearly half a yard long. Each blossom is about 

 an inch across, of a rich glossy rose colour, with purple petals, and 

 large ribbed bracts near four inches long of a beautiful pink colour. 

 (Figured in PaxtorCs Floioer Garden, jVo. 12.) 



Mktrosideros buxifolia. — Box-leaved. Allan Cunningham 

 describes it, when growing in its native country, New Zealand, as " a 

 rambling shrub adliering to trees, and by its lateral roots climbing to 

 the summits of the loftiest trees in the forests of Wangoara, Bay of 

 Islands. In this country (at the Koyal Gardens of Kew) it has a 

 myrtle-like habit, five feet high, with robust branches and broad 

 myrtle-like evergreen leaves. The flowers are in heads of an inch in 

 diameter, petals small, white, filaments four times the length of the 

 petals, white with bright yellow anthers. It requires to be grown in 

 the greenhouse during winter. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4515.) 



MiMULUS RUBiNUS. — The colour is a rich crimson and yellow; the 

 crimson forming a broad belt round tlie mouth of the flower. The 

 inside of ilie flower is slightly spotted with crimson. 



MiMCi/US AURANTiA suPERBA, or Prince of Orange. The colour 

 is u beautiful orange-scarlet and yellow. The former colour forming 

 a broad belt round the mouth. It is slightly spotted inside. The 

 flower is large, and very handsome. 



MiMULUs . — The colour is a bright yellow, with fine 



large, w ell-defined, velvet-crimson spots at the front of the flower, one 

 spot in each division of the mouth (limb). The blossom is very large 

 and handsome. 



Pentadynamis incana. — The flowers are produced in racemes of 

 a yellow colour. {Paxto/i's Flower Gardeii). 



Pentstemon azureus. — Azure-flowered. This very handsome 

 species was discovered by Mr. Hartweg on the Sacramento Mountains 

 in California, and sent by iiim to the Horticultural Society. It is a half- 

 shrubby plant, growing half a yard to two feet high. It is a neat 

 branching plant, whicii blooms in profusion, the spikes of flowers are 

 nine inches or upwards long. Each blossom is a little more than an 

 inch long, and the neat bell-shaped tube half an inch tlirough. The 

 size of the flowers, produced in profusion, and of a beautiful azure blue 

 colour, render it a handsome plant eitlier to grow singly, or in masses 

 in beds, or even in the greenliouse in pots. It deserves a place in 

 every flower garden or greenhouse, being highly ornamental. (Figured 

 ill Bot. 3Iaffi) 



Pentstemon heteropiiyllds. — Variable-leaved. This beautiful 

 species was discovered by Douglas in California. It is a half-shrubby 

 species, growing two feet high, and the flowers are borne in long 



