196 NOTES ON NEW OR BARE PLANTS. 



EcHiNOPSis CRiSTATA ; var. purpurea.— The crested-flowered. The 

 Cactsea order of flowers has within a few years been divided into several 

 new genera, and the present plant is one of that number. The flowers 

 of the present species is of the form of the old Night-blooming Cereus, 

 each blossom has a tube about seven inches long, a yellowish green. 

 The flower, when expanded, is about seven inches across, of a pretty- 

 purple colour tinged with rose. A plant blossomed in the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew in 1846, and the flowers were purple; another in 

 1847 bore white ones. The plant is of the globe-shaped, but depressed 

 at the top, and the finest one is seven inches in diameter. The spines 

 are large. It is a fine variety, and well merits a place in every collec- 

 tion, the fine purple colour of the flowers being unusual, and being so 

 large, upon a globe-shaped plant, render it peculiarly striking and 

 handsome. It is a native of Chili, and flourishes in light loam, a little 

 leaf mould, and a few pieces of lime rubbish, also having a liberal 

 drainage. 



Fuchsia venusta. — 'A Peruvian species, somewhat in the way of 

 F. spectabilis, or serrattifolia. The flowers about three inches long. 

 The tube is salmon-coloured ; the sepals same, but tipped with green. 

 The corolla is salmon-coloured, and spreads quite open and flat at the 

 surface with the tip reflexing. 



Gladiolus. — Mr. Plant, Florist, of Cheadle in Staffordshire, exhi- 

 bited twelve selected seedlings of great beauty. They are particularly 

 distinct, abundant bloomers, and grow about two to two and a half feet 

 high. In our next number we shall give their particular colours. 

 They are perfect gems in form and colour, far surpassing all others we 

 have seen. 



Gloxinia Fyfiana. — A plant of this handsome variety was exhi- 

 bited at the Cliiswick Gardens, having thirty-one flowers expanded. 

 Their upright position, in form like the spring dwarf Gentianella, 

 white with a blue inside, had a beautiful appearance. It deserves to 

 be in every warm greenhouse or stove. 



IxoRA SALiciFOLiA. — Willow-leavcd. This very beautiful flowering 

 species was discovered by Mr. Lobb in Java, and forwarded to his 

 employers, Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, in whose collection it has 

 bloomed. It is a handsome growing shrub from two to three feet high. 

 The flowers are produced lai'ge, terminal corymbous heads, of a deep 

 rich orange colour. It is an abundant blooming plant, even when six 

 inches high it will produce flowers. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4523.) 



LuvuNGA scANDENS. — (Synouyme Limonia scandens). A tall, 

 loose-growing shrub, from Siliiet and Chittagong. It is of the orange 

 family, the flowers very much resemble those of the orange in form, 

 white, and delicately fragrant. It was introduced into the Royal Gardens 

 of Kew in 1823, but never bloomed till the present year. (Figured in 

 Bot. Marj., 4522.) 



MiNiATJRE OR Pompon Roses. 

 Clementine Duval (dwarf hybrid Perpetual). — Light rose colour, 

 brilliant and beautiful ; rather a slow grower; a most profuse bloomei 



