CHEIRANTHUS MARSHALLII. 



THIS very handsome flowering plant was raised by Mr. John Marshall, 

 of Limburn, from seeds which had been obtained from Cheiranthus 

 ochroleuia, flowers of which had been impregnated with those of tiie 

 fine orange-coloured flowers of Erysimum Peroffskianum. It is 

 strikingly intermediate between those very distinct looking plants. 

 Mr. Marshall was induced to impregnate the Cheiranthus ochroleucus 

 in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining seeds from it. The seeds 

 he thus secured were sown in the open border in 1846. and the follow- 

 ing year the plants bloomed. One was a pale yellow, like the C. 

 ochroleuca, and the others had orange-coloured flowers. The one we 

 now figure was selected as the best. It is a half-shrubby plant, growing 

 from one foot to eighteen inches high, forming a pretty bush. It 

 blooms copiously, and the flowers have a very delightful fragrance, 

 something of a combination of the Violet and Primrose. It flourishes 

 when grown in pots or in the open border, and equally well in the 

 greenhouse, sitting-room, or open air. It grows very freely, and is 

 readily propagated. It deserves a place in every collection of flowers. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Aekides maculosum, vab. Schrcederi. — J. H. Schroder, Esq., of 

 Stratford Green, Essex, purchased this handsome flowering plant at a 

 sale in Covent Garden, being a portion of an importation from the hills 

 near Bombay. The flowers are produced in a drooping, open, many- 

 flowered panicle ; they are beautifully delicate. Sepals white, tinged 

 with lilac and spotted with lilac-rose. Labellum, middle lobe lilac, 

 markcfl with ricii rose, and the spur shading gradually into a bright 

 yellow-green. Jt is a highly 

 (Figured in Mag. of Botany.) 



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interesting 



and beautiful variety. 



