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liigh. Mr. Wilson, Curator of the Botanic Garden, Jamaica, sent a 

 plant to the Eoyal Gardens of Kew, wliere it has recently bloomed. 

 The flowers are produced at the axils of the leaves, drooping-. Each 

 blossom is an incli and a-half across, of a crearay-wiiite. It is a very- 

 neat plant, much like the well-known Ardisia crenulata. (Figured in 

 Bot. Mag., 4546.) 



Gladiolus Natalknsis, var. Willmoreanus. — A handsome 

 hybrid raised by Mr. Cole, gardener to J. Willmore, Esq., of Oldford, 

 near Birmingham. It was raised between G. gandavensis and G. flori- 

 bundus. The flowers are of a creamy-white, the three upper divisions 

 of eacli blossom is streaked with delicate rosy-purple. They are large, 

 and borne in a long spike. Mr. Cole has been successful in raising 

 some other beautiful distinct varieties ; two of them, very superb, are 

 named Oldfordiensis, and Rosea-purpureus. 



Gloxinias. — Five new liandsome varieties are figured in Van 

 Houtte's Flore. 1. Dr. Lindley, M-hite ground, tube tinged with rose 

 and blue ; very pretty. 2. Reine des Beiges, white ground, with the 

 tube tinged witli rose ; very neat. 3. Madame Aglae Adanson, a 

 pretty pale-flesh or pink ground, with a dark crimson rim inside the 

 throat, 4. M. G. Hodgeveen, ground colour blue with a white rim 

 around tlie edge of the flower, and a white bar along tlie lower part of 

 the tube ; very distinct and pretty. 5. Princesse de Lamballe, a bril- 

 liant red with a white bar along the lower part of the inside of the tube ; 

 very splendid. They are fine additions to this charming family. 



HoYA campanulata. Bell-flowered. — A native of Java, where 

 it grows in copses in the mountainous districts. It is a twining shrub, 

 producing its flowers in a large capitate drooping umbel. Each blossom 

 is about an inch across, fleshy, buflP-coloured, slightly bell-shaped. It 

 is a very interesting species, and contrasts very prettily with the several 

 other species which we now possess. Messrs. Veitch imported it. 

 (Figured in the Bot. Mag., 4545.) 



Lapageria rosea. — Recently Me figured this beautiful flowering 

 plant. It has bloomed in several collections in this country during the 

 past season, and proves a highly interesting and valuable acquisition. 



Nymphjea micrantha.— The Earl of Derby obtained this very 

 pretty "Water Lily from the river Gambia. The flowers are white, 

 not so large as our common Water Lily. It requires to be grown in a 

 warm stove. 



Pimelea macrocephala. Large-headed. — This noble species 

 was imported from the Swan River colony by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 

 and Co., of Exeter. It is a neat growing shrub, from two to three feet 

 high. The leaves are glabrous, and glaucus, large. The flowers are 

 of a pale rose colour, in heads which are two inches and a-half across. 

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

 Like all the Pimeleas, it flourishes in turfy peat soil mixed with a little 

 good loam, well drained. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 4543.) 



Rogiera amcena (Syn., Roiideletia thyrsoidea). — A native of Gua- 

 temala. Its general appearance is like a Laurustinus, the flowers, too, 



