CAMPANEA GRANDIFLORA.— Large Flowered. 



THIS very handsome flowering plant is of the order Gesneracaea, 

 having the habit of the Gloxinia. Mr. Linden, of Luxembourg, 

 collected seeds of it in New Grenada, and plants have bloomed in 

 his establishments, from whence other nurserymen have obtained it. 

 It flourishes in a good greenhouse, and with the treatment usually 

 given to the more hardy of the Gloxinias. The plant is somewhat 

 woody at the base, herbaceous above, and grows about a foot high. 

 The flowers are produced in a tuft at the ends of the shoots. It is a 

 magnificent blooming plant, and merits a place in every light green- 

 house ; as it will flourisii equally well in a moderately warm hot-bed 

 frame, or pit, it may be forwarded in such, and when near blooming 

 be placed in a sitting-room window, or other suitable situation, and 

 after blooming, be taken away and treated as the Gesneracsea usually 

 are. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



BoLBornvLLUM LoBBii. — An interesting stove orchideous plant. 

 Sepals and petals narrow, of a pale yellow, tinged with rosy-red. La- 

 bellum a deep yellow, streaked with crimson at the under side. Each 

 flower is about four inches across. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4532.) 



Bryantiius erectus. — This is a charming little bush ; a hybrid 

 which was raised at the nursery of Mr. Cunningham, of Comely Bank, 

 Edinburgh, between the Menziesia crerulea (the lovely Heath of Scot- 

 land) and Rhododendron Chamsecistus (the Cistus Rhododendron). 

 It forms a round, compact bush, about a foot across, and nine inches 

 liigh ; and when in l)loom it is covered with its lovely roAe-coloured 

 flowers, somewhat resembling a miniature Kalmia latifolia. It is 



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