220 NOTES ox NF.V.' OR RARE PLANTS. 



HrpocYRTA GRACILIS ; The SLENDER. — A native of Brazil, from 

 whence it was imported by Messrs. BacicFiouse, nurserymen of York. 

 It is a creeping Gesneraceous-like stove plant. Tiie leaves are in size 

 and form similar to the common Box tree. The stem roots freely from 

 tlie underside. The flowers are produced singly, or in pairs, at each 

 joint along- the creeping branches. Each blossom is campanulate- 

 fiinnel-shaped, tube about an inch long, with the limb five-parted, 

 creamy-white, spotted with orange on the underside of the tube within. 

 It is a very interesting and pretty plant, well deserving a place among 

 the stove Orchids, or to run among stove or warm greenhouse Ferns. 

 (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4531.) 



Laxtaxa delicatissima. — Tliis very beautiful kind has the habit 

 of Z. Sellowii, and blooms very freely, the flowers being of a rosy -pink 

 colour. It is a verj' neat bushy plant, and whether grown in pots or 

 in beds is a charming object. 



Lobelia ramosa. — This is a highly ornamental plant for the 

 greenhouse throughout the summer. Its rich large-spreading blue 

 flowers with a white eye, produced in profusion, are exceedingly pretty. 

 It also makes a fine bedding plant. By some persons it is cionsidered 

 an herbaceous perennial, but generally a biennial. Seeds slionld be 

 sown early in September, and the plants be potted off singly when 

 strong enough. They may be kept in a dry cold frame or greenhouse 

 tlu'ougli winter, and be repotted in the following spring. Sucii will 

 bloom all the season, even up to November. A number of tliese beau- 

 tiful plants adorn the greenhouses in the Royal Gardens of Kew. 



Lobelia Magnificent. — The flower spike is three to four feet 

 long, and the plant of robust habit. The blossoms are large and the 

 petals very broad, of a brilliant scarlet-crimson. It is much superior 

 to every other we have seen. 



Nerium Tangleii. — This is a beautiful flowering plant. Tiie 

 flowers are of a deep rose, each petal being shaded (or stripeil) with 

 rich crimson. The blossoms are large and full double. The plant 

 blooms very freely, and deserves to be in every greenhouse. 



Odontoglossum n.evium ; The speckled flowered. — This is'a 

 very beautiful flowering stove Orchid from the mountains of New 

 ( irenada. Messrs. Loddiges exhibited a plant in bloom at the Ilorti- 

 cultural Society's meeting at Chiswick, in May last. The flowers are 

 Ijonie in spreading panicles. Eacii blossom is about four inches 

 across. Sepals and petals narrow, pure white, speckled numerously 

 wiih deep crimson. Lip of the same colour, with a yellow centre. 

 (Figured in Paxtoti's Flcnoer Garden, Plate 18.) 



Passiflora Medds.ba. — In Mr. Van Iloutte's Flora this pretty 

 flowering stove species is described, but its native country is not stated. 

 It is of slender habit, blooming freely. The rays of tlie flowers are 

 orange-coloured the first day, and rosy-red or lilac the following. 



Pentstemon Clousii. — This is a most superb variety. The plant 

 is of the liabit of P. gigantea elegans, and a most profuse bloomer. 



