1"94 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



ing plants of winter and spring, this tribe of plants ranks with the most 

 ornamental, and sheds a delightful perfume too. They are of very easy 

 culture, and can be procured at a trifling cost. 



Berberis Darwinni. — This very handsome Barberry is an ever- 

 green, of moderate-sized growth, from three to five feet high, bushy. 

 The leaves are small, of a rich deep green. The flowers, borne in pro- 

 fusion, of a rich deep yellow. It is quite hardy, and well deserves a 

 place in every shrubbery. 



Broughtonia lilacina. — This pretty flowering Orchideous plant 

 is a native of the West Indies, we believe of St. Domingo. It is in 

 the collections around London. Each blossom is near two inches 

 across, of a pretty lilac colour, with a yellow streak down the centre of 

 the lip. It has bloomed at Mr. Kucker's, and at Messrs. Henderson's, 

 of Pine Apple-place. (Figured in Magazine of Botany.) 



Cantua i uxifolia (synonyme, C. dependens). — A very splendid 

 plate of this handsome, flowery, half-hardy, shrubby plant is given in 

 Paxtoti's Plower Garden for July, illustrative of which are the fol- 

 lowing particulars : — 



*• It is doubtless true that Cantua buxifolia is a variable plant, more 

 or less downy, and having flowers either crimson and yellotv, as this is, 

 or white and yellow, or, perhaps, merely yellow. All these forms may 

 be expected to appear from the same batch of seeds. In fact, among 

 Mr. "W. Lobb's dried specimens, no fewer than six different numbers 

 are occupied by the forms of the same species, viz., this C. buxifolia. 

 But the materials before us lead to the inference that other forms of the 

 genus exist in temperate South America, which are specifically distinct 

 from C buxifolia, and from each other. 



" In the first place we have a Peruvian plant, collected by Dombey, 

 and distributed by the Paris Herbarium, under the name of ' C. grandi- 

 flora, No. 382.' This, which is nearly entirely smooth, has much 

 shorter flowers and blunter leaves than C. buxifolia, the calyx being 

 almost half as long as the corolla tube; it is probably C. orata. 



" Among Bridge's last Bolivian collection is a shrub with leaves 

 and calyxes covered all over with a viscid glandular pubescence, an 

 extremely narrow crimson-streaked corolla and calyx. This we pre- 

 sume to be C tomentosum. 



" Finally, we have in the same collection a species, with flowers 

 growing singly at the end of short lateral branches, and calyxes almost 

 half as long as the tube of the yellow corolla, and to this the name of 

 C. unijlora seems to belong. 



" These plants (and others) are likely to appear in our gardens, now 

 that the importation of seeds has commenced into this country. They 

 should be diligently sought for by those persons who have corre- 

 spondents in Bolivia or Peru." 



Epacrxs conspicua. — An hybrid seedling, raised by Mr. Kinghom, 

 gardener to the Earl of Kilmorey, at Twickenham. It has the habit 

 and foliage of E. grandiflora ; flowers large, bright crimson-scarlet, 

 with a large white tipped end. 



