98 ' NOTES ON NEW OR KAKE PLANTS. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



AndROSACE LANUGINOSA — SHAaGY-LEAVED. 



Primulacea. Pentandria Monogynia. 

 A liardy perennial plant, most suitable for rock work. It spreads 

 around, covering the same with a delightful mantle of foliage, and its 

 numerous terminal heads of many-flowered umbels. The flowers are 

 rose-coloured with a golden eye, a separate blossom being about a 

 quarter of an inch across. It is in the London nurseries, and to be 

 procured at a trifling cost. It blooms from July to the end of the 

 summer. Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot. 



AnGR^CUM FUNALE — CoRD-LIKE AnGR.-ECUM. 

 OrchidecB. Gi/nandria Monandria. 

 It was discovered in the mountains of Jamaica, growing on the 

 trunks of trees, by Mr. Purdie, the collector employed in connexion 

 witli the Royal Gardens of Kew. The flowers are produced upon long 

 bending roots, about as thick as a goose-quill, from which rise short 

 peduncles, each bearing one flower, or, occasionally divided, two 

 flowered. A separate blossom is about two inches and a half across. 

 Sepals and petals a pale green. Lip large, white with a yellow margin. 

 They are highly fragrant. Figured in Bot. 3Iag., 4295. 



Anigozanthos fuliginosa — Sooty Anigozanthos. 

 Hemodoracece. Hexandria Monogynia. 

 Mr. .J. Drummond, in the " London .Journal of Botany," states, — 

 " By a sliip now about to sail I send two fine species of Anigozanthos, 

 collected by my son (since killed by the natives), in the vicinity of 

 the Moore River, in the Swan River settlement. The dark flowering 

 one. A. fiiliginosa. of which but two specimens have ever been found 

 in bloom, is a real mourning flo\\er, the upper portions of the stem 

 and lower part of the corolla being covered, as it were, with black 

 velvet ; the corolla is deeply cleft, and expands about two inches, 

 lemon-coloured. The flower stem rises from two to four feet high, 

 and bears a large spike of blossoms. It is a line plant for the green- 

 house. It has not yet arrived in this countrj\ Figured in Bot. Mag. 

 4291. 



Aquilegia jucunda — Joyous Colombine. 

 Ranunculacece. Polyandria Penlagynia. 



It is a native of the mountains of Siberia, a hardy perennial, differ- 

 ing from the common A. glandulosa of the gardens in its much dwarfer 

 habit, the flowers being a much brighter blue, and in its very glaucous 

 round foliage. It is a very desirable plant for the flower-garden, and 

 easily increased, grows about a foot high. May be obtained at the 

 nursery gardens cheap. 



C/elogyne speciosa — The Showy-. 



Orchidece. Gynandria Monandria. 

 Mr. Lobb, the collector to Messrs. Veitch's, sent this species from 

 Java in October, 1846. Each flower stem rises about four inches 



