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Opuntia Salmiana. Prince de Salm's Opuntia. — The plant 

 is of small stature, one to two feet high, erect. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in a cluster at the ends of the branches. Each blossom is about 

 two inches across. In bud it is red ; when opened it is a sulphur- 

 yellow, streaked with red and rose-colour. This slender species grows 

 and flowers freely in light loam and leaf mould, placed under the full 

 influence of the sun in summer. It should be frequently syringed in 

 the mornings or evenings during hot dry weather. A free drainage 

 must be given. Water sparingly in winter, and keep the plant at night 

 in a temperature of about 55^. — (Curator of the Eoyal Gardens.) 

 Figured in Bot. Mag., 4542. 



Pitcairnia .Jacksoni. — Imported from Guatemala by Mr. Jackson, 

 nurseryman, of Kingston, and requires the temperature of the stove. 

 The flowers are borne on an erect large raceme, and are of a rich 

 scarlet colour, very showy ; and the fine spike of blossoms rising out of 

 the pine-plant long serrated leaves produces a very pretty effect. Each 

 blossom is three inches long. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4540.) 



PcJYA MAiDiFOLiA. — Mr. Linden introduced this very handsome 

 stove herbaceous plant from Caraceas. It belongs to the Bromeliads. 

 The flower spikes are long, cone-shaped, consisting of brilliant crimson 

 bracts, tipped with green. The corolla is two inches long, of a pale 

 cream colour. (Figured in Annates de Gand.) 



Rhodothamnus Kamchaticus. — A hardy evergreen dwarf shrub, 

 a native of eastern Siberia, where it grows in muddy, mountainous 

 places near the sea. It is known in some places as Rhododendron 

 Kamchaticum. Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, have it, where it proves 

 quite hardy, but iinds it will only flourish under a north wall. The 

 shrub is more nearly related to the Chinese Azaleas than the Rhodo- 

 dendrons; it forms, however, a compact little bush like the Rhododendron 

 hirsutum. The flowers are produced at the ends of the shoots, gene- 

 rally singly. Each blossom is an inch and a half across, nodding, of a 

 deep purple colour. It is a very pretty shrub, well deserving to be in 

 every shrubbery. (Figured in PuxtorCs Flower Garden.') 



Rhynchospermum jasminoides. — Mr. Fortune sent this plant 

 from China to the Horticultural Society. It is a slender, climbing, 

 evergreen shrub, rooting along its branches wherever it touches a damp 

 surface, similar to Ivy. The flowers are white, produced in corym- 

 bous heads, upon short side shoots, successively along the branches. 

 Each blossom is much like the front of a flower of the common white 

 •Jasmine, half an inch across ; they are deliciously fragrant. It blooms 

 freely, and is a very interesting plant for the greenhouse, to cover a 

 wall, trellis, &c., growing very freely. 



Spatiiodea L^vis. Smooth-leaved. — This fine flowering plant 

 was introduced into this country by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., 

 of Exeter, and has bloomed in their establishment. Their plant is now 

 sixteen feet high, producing its flowers in large terminal panicles, 

 somewhat of corymbose form. Each blossom is bell-funnel shaped, 

 white, spotted and streaked with rose, the tube widening upwards. 



