100 notes on new or rare plants. 



Galeandra Baceri — Bacer's Casque-Wort. 



Orchidra. Gynaitdria Monandria. 

 A native of Mexico, bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Lodcliges. 

 The flower stem is about six inches long, and produces a large droop- 

 ing panicle of flowers. The sepals and petals are a light brown colour. 

 The lip is funnel-shaped, liaving much the appearance of a moderate 

 sized Gloxinia flower. The tube, outside white ; inside yellow. The 

 mouth broad, of a beautiful plum colour, with a dark rim next tlie 

 yellow. It is a very pretty species. Figured in Pax. Mug. Bot. 



IMarttxia fragrans — The fragrant-flowered. 



Scsamece. Didynamia Angiospermia. 



In the spring of 1846 capsules of seeds were sent to the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew, and the plants raised were treated as half-hardy, and 

 in the cool greenhouse bloomed freely, and were universally admired 

 both for the larw hiofhlv coloured flowers and their delicious fragrance. 

 Each blossom is as large as a medium sized Gloxinia, of a rich pur- 

 plish-red, the throat yellow with dark spots. From four to six blossoms 

 are produced in each panicle. It highly merits to be grown in every 

 greenhouse, and as it is very likely to bloom well in the open border 

 in a sheltered warm situation, a bed of it would form a very beautiful 

 object. Figured in Bot. Mag. 4292. 



PORPIIYROCOME LANCEOLATA — LaNCE-LEAVED, 



Acanthacea. Didynamia Angiospermia. 



It is a stove perennial plant, of some beauty, and deserves to be 

 grown in every hothouse or warm greenhouse. The plant has somewhat 

 the appearance of Justicia speciosa. The flowers are produced in large 

 terminal heads, the bracts inclosing each separate blossom are of a 

 reddish-purple, and the corolla of a rich blue-purple colour. Plants 

 raised by cuttings almost immediately after potting show bloom, and 

 are thus prevented growing, but when raised from the seed we find the 

 plants soon make fine specimens. Figured in Pax. 3Iag. Bot. 



Spir-ea prunifolia, pleno DO0BLE-FLOWERED. 



HosacecE. Icosandria Di-pentagynia. 



This is a very distinct and remarkably pretty variety with dotihle 

 Jloicers. It was first introduced by Mr. Fortune to the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, and plants have recently been distributed by M. 

 Louis Van Houtte, of Ghent. "\Ve have plants at this time profusely 

 in bloom, and which liave a very neat appearance. The flowers are 

 produced in rather close racemose corymbs, pure white in colour, each 

 being rather more than a quarter of an inch in diameter, and quite 

 double. It will no doubt, as it deserves, soon be generally grown. 



Tl3RIDIA CONCHIFLOKA VAR. WaTKIXsOXI Mr. WaTKINSON's 



Tiger floaver. 

 hidacca. Monadelplda Triandria. 

 This beautiful jiybrid was raised by Mr. Horsefield, of Whitfield near 



