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loose umbels, having from ten to twenty blossoms in each. A single 

 blossom is about three-quarters of an incli across, eacli petal being 

 white and tipped with rosy-crimson. (Figured in Paxtori's Flower 

 Garden.) 



Almeidea rubra. Red-flowered. — A branching shrub from 

 Brazil, belonging to the Pentandria class of flowers. It grows a yard high. 

 The leaves are about the size of those of a Peach-tree. The flowers 

 are borne in terminal panicles. Each blossom, five-petalled, is about 

 an inch across, of a rosy-red colour. A pretty stove plant. It blooms 

 in autumn, in the Royal Gardens of Kew. (Figured in Bot. Maq., 

 4548.) 



Astrafcea viscosa. — A noble plant, or tree, which was received at 

 the Kew Gardens in 1823 from Madagascar. It is now in the collec- 

 tion in tlie great stove, and is twenty feet high. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in snowball-like heads, white with a rich crimson eye. Each 

 blossom is about an inch across. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4344.) 



Begonia Ingramii. — A considerable number of Hybridized Seed- 

 lings has been raised at the Royal Gardens, Frogmore, near Windsor. 

 This beautiful delicate variety is a seedling from B. fuchsioides im- 

 pregnated witli B. nitida. The flowers are borne in large branching 

 drooping panicles, of a delicate light rose colour. Each blossom an 

 inch across. Mr. Ingram, jun., has raised several others, quite distinct 

 in character, but equally iiandsome. The entire tribe of Begonias have 

 delicately handsome flowers, charming for bouquets in winter and early 

 spring. Tliere ought to be one in every stove or warm greenhouse. 

 The present variety is figured in Mag. of Botany. 



Carnations. — Emperor (Scarlet Bizarre), raised by J. L. Puxley, 

 Esq , Tenby, Wales. A large well-marked flower, of excellent colours. 

 Jenny Lind (Puxley's), Crimson Bizarre. A very true marked flower, 

 of first-rate excellence, and medium size. Duke of Devonshire (Bar- 

 ringer's), Scarlet Flake. A very true marked flower, the scarlet rich, 

 and the ground pure. Medium size. A fine variety. (Figured in 

 Mag. of Botany.) 



CoLOCHORTUS PALLiDus. — A native of Mexico, cultivated in the 

 Belgian nurseries. It is a dwarf, grassy-leaved plant. The flowers 

 are borne in loose umbels, of a dull brown colour, with a dark spot at 

 the base of each petal. Each flower is an inch and a half across. 



Cordyline SiEBOLDir, VAR. MACULATA (Syn. Dracaena Sieboldii) 

 — Dr. Siebold introduced this handsome plant from Java to M. L. Van 

 Houtte's establishment, where it has recently bloomed. It is a shrubby 

 plant, growing three or more feet higii. The leaves are thick, large, 

 a deep green, prettily dappled with a lighter colour. The flowers are 

 produced in a terminal panicle, of a yellowish-white. 



CvANOTUS viTTATA (Syn., Tradescantis zebrina). — A iierbaceous 

 trailing plant. It flourishes either in tlie stove, greenhouse, or by the 

 side of a sitting-room window. It grows rapidly : the stems are purple ; 

 the leaves at the inider side are purple, and the upper side deep green 



