NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 5 



Royal Gardens of Kew. It belongs to the Melastoma order of plants. 

 The plant is a creeper, rooting at the joints. The flower-stem rises two 

 or three inches high, terminating in a one-sided raceme of flowers. 

 The leaves are large, and the upper side is of a rich glossy green, 

 shading to a coppery or velvet hue, which with its many distinct veins 

 produce a pretty effect. The under side is of a bright rosy-pink, and 

 contrasts well with the upper. Each blossom is about an inch across, 

 rose-coloured. A very interesting plant. (Figured in the Bot. Mag., 

 4551.) 



Burlingtonia pubescens. — A charming stove orchideous Epi- 

 phyte from Pernambuca, obtained by John Knowles, Esq., of Man- 

 chester. The flowers are produced in what is called a many-flowered 

 panicle. They are of a snow-white, with the lips having three yellow 

 ridges. A very desirable species. 



Centrosolenia glabra. — A stove Gesneriaceous robust plant. 

 The flowers are of a very broad tube-shaped form, an inch and a half 

 long, the limb (mouth) being an inch across. White with a sulphur- 

 coloured tube. It blooms during autumn and M'inter in the lioyal 

 Gardens of Kew. (Figured in the Bot. Mag., 4552.) 



Cestrum calycinum.' — A native ef Buenos Ayres. It is a green- 

 house shrub, somewhat like a dwarf Olive-plant. The flowers are 

 produced along the ends of the shoots, tube-shaped, an inch lon«-, 

 green, and deliciously fragrant. It blooms freely, and, beino- an 

 autumn and winter flowering plant, renders it additionally valuable. 

 Many of our readers will know the C. aurantiacum, with its charming 

 orange-coloured flowers, blooming also at the same season : both species 

 ought to be in every greenhouse. They grow freely, and are easy of 

 cultivation. 



Cyclamen macropus. Large-rooted. — It is a greenhouse spe- 

 cies, grown in the Belgium collections. It is a perennial having many- 

 crowned fleshy roots as large as a moderate-sized turnip. The leaves 

 are large, and have very distinct white veins. The flowers are lar°-e, 

 and the tube is of a pretty rose colour, and the top divisions are white. 

 They are produced, usually, in winter, and are very fragrant. 



Epidendrem longipetalum (Syn. E. aromaticum). — It is a native 

 of Guatemala, from whence it was received by the Horticultural 

 Society. The flowers are produced in a long straggling panicle. 

 Sepals and petals narrow, an inch and a half long, of a brownish- 

 purple colour, tipped with green. The Iabellum is white, with the lip 

 margined with bright yellow, and striped with rosy-crimson. The 

 plant is very fragrant. (Figured in Paxton's Flower Garden, 30.) 



Gillies Poinsiana (Syn., Poinsiana Gilliesii).— A half-hardy- 

 shrub, a native of Chili, and the flowers are of the pea-formed order. 

 The foliage is of the Acacia or Mimosa character, and very pretty. 

 The flowers are produced in large terminal spikes. Each blossom is 

 about an inch anil a half across, yellow. The fine heads of bloom are 

 very showy. A fine plant, trained against a wall in the open air at 

 Messrs. Knight and Perry's nursery, King's Koad, Chelsea, bloomed 



