6 NOTES ON NEW OR HARE PLANTS. 



summer flower garden, where it will succeed well if planted in a mix- 

 ture of sandy peat and vegetable mould. Figured in Pax. Mag. 

 Bot., Dec. 



Impatiens plattpetala — Broad-petalled Balsam. 

 JBalsaminacecE. Pentandria Monoyijnia. 

 Messrs. Veitch imported this very pretty flowering species from 

 Java. It is a perennial plant, and requires to be treated similar to 

 Gloxinias, Acliimenes, &c. It was exhibited during the last summer 

 at one of the Horticultural shows at Chiswick, and much admired. 

 It blooms profusely, and so open are the beautiful rose coloured 

 flowers, as somewhat to resemble Achimencs grandifiora. Each 

 blossom is about an inch and a half across. It flowers the greater 

 part of summer if kept from drying winds. It increases freely by 

 cuttings. Figured in Bot. Reg., p. 68. 



Ltonia Jamaicensis — Jamaica Lyonia. 



Ericacea. Decandria Monogynia. 



A pretty wild plant, known in some gardens imder the names of 

 Andromeda fasciculata and A. Jamaicensis. It inhabits the high 

 mountains in Jamaica, and forms a moderate sized shrub, branching 

 freely and blooming profusely. The flowers are produced at the axils 

 of the leaves, in close racemes of an inch long, and in colour are waxy 

 white, slightly tinged with green and blush. Figured in Bot. Mag., 

 p. 4213. 



Odontoglossum hastilabium — Halbert-lipped Odontoglossum. 

 Orchidacca. Gi/naiidria Monandria. 

 A lovely Orchideous plant wholly new to our collections. It is from 

 South America, where Mr. Purdie gathered it in the woods. The 

 flowers are produced on racemes numerously, each blossom being 

 about three inches across ; sepals and petals rather narrow, green 

 beautifully marked with transverse purple lines and dots. The stem 

 (column) of the labellum is purple, and the hp which spreads out 

 broad is a ]iure white. They are highly fragrant. Figured in Bot. 

 Mag. p. 4212. 



Salvia Camertonii — C.\merton's Sage. 

 Lahiatee. Diandria Monogynia. 



This is a very distinct and handsome kind, with bright crimson 

 flowers nearly as large as those of S.fulgens. The leaves are about 

 an inch and a lialf long, of a light green colour, and possess an agree- 

 able scent. The plant is of compact habit, and forms a bush from 

 one and a half to two feet high. It has bloomed with us, and is well 

 worthy of recommendation, especially for budding in the summer 

 flower garden. 



Scutellaria Ventenati — Ventenat's Skull-cap. 

 Labiata. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 

 Mr. Purdie sent this new species to the Royal Gardens at Kew, 



