54 NOTES ON NEW OR BARE PLANTS. 



we believe, to Dr. Lindley, by Mr. Griffith. (Figured in Paxtou's 

 Flower .Garden.) 



Showy Plants in Bloom at the Royal Gardens of Kew. 



Banksia spinolos. — Plant ten feet high, having short, Pinus-like 

 foliage. The tufts of flowers are each six inches long, of a deep gold 

 colour, with crimson filaments. Very^handsome. 



Banksia paludosa. — Leaves like those of a small-leaved Rhodo- 

 dendron ponticum. Tufts of flowers, each seven inches long, of a rich 

 brown colour. Very handsome. 



Banksia media. — Plant nine feet high; leaves five inches long 

 (what are termed saw-leaved). Tufts of flowers, each six inches long, 

 of a bright golden-yellow colour. Very handsome. 



The above Banksias are in the large house appropriated solely to 

 this class of plants. The three now in bloom are well deserving a 

 place in any similar house. 



In the Greenhouse. 



Acacias. — A. mucronata; plant five yards high, small lance-shaped 

 leaved, fine yellow blossoms, profuse bloomer. A. lineata; fine foliage, 

 flowers in round balls, of a deep gold colour, produced in vast pro- 

 fusion. One of the handsomest, and deserves to be in every green- 

 house. A. diptera; the flowers are in round balls, pure white, and 

 contrast prettily with the yellow, sulphur, and golden ones. A. de- 

 pend ens ; flowers pale yellow. A. rotimdifolia ; very pretty, small 

 foliage, and the flowers in round balls of a deep yellow colour; very 

 handsome. A. eriocarpa ; the flowers in large balls, of a very rich 

 deep yellow; very handsome. A. squamosa; the flowers similar in 

 size and colour to the last described. A. pubescens ; panicles of flowers, 

 drooping, a profuse bloomer, with rich yellow flowers; very neat. Like 

 all the tribe, they are interestingly neat, pretty, and many of them 

 fragrant ; blooming, too, at this season renders them additionally 

 charming. Every greenhouse ought to have some of them. 



Barosma DioiCiEA. — A bush three feet high, covered with a pro- 

 fusion of white flowers. Each blossom is about a quarter of an inch 

 across. They are produced in terminal branching panicled spikes. 

 Very neat, and well merits a place in the greenhouse. 



CoRRiEA brillianta. — The tube-shaped flowers are each an inch 

 and a half long, bright crimson-red, with a large yellow tip. Very 

 pretty. There were several other species and varieties in bloom. The 

 colours we have recently given, and everyone of them — white, scarlet, 

 yellowish-white, blush, crimson, and rose — merit a place in every 

 greenhouse. They bloom, too, for many months, which renders them 

 truly valuable. 



Cytisus filipes, with a profusion of its pure white pea-formed 

 flowers, on long drooping shoots, had a neat and beautiful effect. 



Daphne indica rubra. — This very fragrant flowering plant is 

 very valuable as a winter bloomer. The flowers are tinged with 



