NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 8 



is admitted. About the middle of July the pots being filled with roots, 

 the plants were again re-potted, keeping the balls entire ; they were 

 retained in the greenhouse until the end of August, when they were 

 removed to a sheltered situation for a month, in order to harden the 

 shoots and prepare them for winter's cooler temperature. This is the 

 only period of the year they should be allowed to be out of the green- 

 house, or suitable brick pit, as the convenience for their habitation 

 may be. During winter they were kept in a cool, not frosty, light 

 situation of the house. In March following they were again re- 

 potted into 16-sized pots, and in August into 8's, in which 

 they have subsequently bloomed, and were specimens of first-rate 

 excellence. The last March a portion of the ball of each was taken 

 away, and some fresh compost added, and during the past season 

 received the admiration of all who saw them, not only being plants of 

 large size, but literally covered with bloom, and amply repaying for 

 the attention paid to their management. 



In order to keep up a youthful succession, to replace the results of 

 deformity and death by old age and casualties, each spring a plant or 

 two should be put in course of preparation. Those kinds, as L. 

 hiloha, which are not naturally so bushy as L. formosa, &c., may be 

 rendered more so by often stopping the side shoots, allowing the 

 central one to proceed to the height it is desired to have the bush 

 ultimately. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Acacia m^sta — Mourning Wattle. 

 Fdbacece. Polygamia Moncecia. 

 This is a greenhouse evergreen shrub, having its short pinnatifid 

 foliage of a very dark, dull green colour, but like most of its tribe it 

 is a very ornamental plant, and bears a profusion of fragrant lovely 

 yellow blossoms, hanging pendant in masses, producing a beautiful 

 effect. Each raceme is near an inch long. We do not know where it 

 is to be procured, but it certainly deserves to be grown. Scarcely any 

 plants are more to be admired for the sitting-room than Acacias, their 

 growth and foliage being neat and elegant. Figured in Bot.Reg., p. 67. 



Ansellia Africana — African Ansellia. 

 Orchidacece. Gynandria Motiandria. 



Mr. Ansell, a gardener, who went from England with the Niger 

 expedition, discovered this plant in the Island of Fernando Po, grow- 

 ing upon a palm tree. It has bloomed beautifully in the collection 

 of Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, where it grows admirably in pots 

 filled with decayed sphagnum moss. The flowers are produced in 

 large terminal jjanicles, each blossom being about two and a half 

 inches across, green marked and blotched very beautifully with dark 

 brown velvet; labellum, pink and yellow. It is a noble plant, well 

 deserving to be in every collection of Epiphytical Orchids. Figured 

 in Bot. licy., p. 30, and Pax. Mag. Bot„ Dec. 



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