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which now form a very interesting- group for the greenhouse or stove. 

 (Figured ia Bot. Mug., 4530.) 



Cheirantiius Marshallii. — Tills beautiful orange, coloured Wall- 

 flower, with violet scented flowers, is a most cliarniing plant, and ought 

 to be grown in every greenhouse and flower garden. It flourishes 

 eitlier in pots or the open border, and being readily increased, a supply 

 for beds would easily be obtained. 



Chelo.ve barbata coccrNEA. — This is a charming variety, a plant 

 now in bloom has a branching spike of flowers nearly five feet high, 

 they are of a bright scarlet colour. This, as well as the original 

 species C. barbata, and the varieties carnea (flesh colour), and alba 

 (white), well merit a place in every flower garden. They are very 

 gracefully handsome, and bloom nearly all the summer. 



CaPHEA ciNNABARiNA. — A lialf-shrubby plant, the flowers being 

 crimson or deep purple, each about an inch long. It makes a pretty 

 plant for bedding. Introduced by Mr. Van Houtte. 



Bendrobium Kingianum ; Capt. King's Dendrobium. — Mr. 



Bid well discovered this rare species in Australia. Eacii flower stem 

 bears about six blossoms, tiie sepals and petals are of a purple colour, 

 and the lip white streaked witii purple. A separate flower is an inch 

 across. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4527.) 



Dialttra spectabile. — This fine Fumaria-like plant proves per- 

 fectly liardy, surviving the severity of last winter uninjured and now 

 blooming beautifully. It can now be obtained at a very low price, 

 and deserves to be in every flower garden or greeniiouse. Its fine 

 racemes of drooping rich rose-coloured flowers are very interestingly 

 pretty. 



Eugenia Brasiliensis. — A native of Brazil, where it forms a 

 small tree. It is in tlie stove at the Eoyal Gardens of Kew. The 

 foliage is large, somewhat like a common Laurel. The flowers are 

 snowy white, and produced in branching heads at the ends of tlie 

 shoots. Each blossom is about an iucli across, in appearance like 

 tliose of the Strawberry. When tlie flowers are in bloom, leaf buds 

 push among tliem, and ttie young leaves then produced are of a deep 

 purple-brown, contrasting beautifully with the white blossoms. 

 (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4526.) 



Grammantuus cHLORiEFLORA. — A dwarf succulent annual, very 

 mucii resembling a Sedum, and as a pot plant for the greenhouse is 

 interestingly pretty and showy ; it will also thrive in the open air, in 

 warm sunny situations, especially as a rock plant, during summer. 

 The flowers are produced in loose cymous branching heads. Each 

 star-like flower is about half an inch across, of a rich orange, or orange 

 red, changing to deeper colour with its age. It deserves a place in 

 every greenhouse as a summer ornament, or in the flower garden as a 

 rock plant, or edtring to a bed or liorder. It is cultivated in the 

 Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea. (Figured in Magazine of Botany .^ 



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