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spreading tree'of great beauty. It has bloomed profusely in the green- 

 house at Chatswortli. The flowers are produced in large terminal 

 heads, each blossom being near three inches across, of a dark scarlet 

 colour, spotted witii black dots round tlie centre. It is a supei'b va- 

 riety, and deserves to be in every collection of this very fine genus. 

 Figured in Pax. Mag. Hot. 



Salvia dulcis — Sweet Sage. 



"We have had tijis very pretty species in bloom. The flowers are 

 dark rose-coloured, and produced with much freedom. It will succeed 

 well in the summer border, with ordinary care. 



SOLANUM JASMINOIDES JaSMINE-LEAVED, 



Solanacece. Peidaiidria Monogynia. 



It is considered to be a native of South America. It is perfectly 

 liardy, flourishing against a wall in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society at Chiswick. It is a climber, and produces a profusion of neat 

 white flowers in panicles. Each blossom is about three quarters of an 

 inch across. Figured in Bot. Reg. 



Thibaudia pulcherrima — The Beautiful. 



Vacciniacece. Dccandria Mojiogi/iiii. 



It is a native of the north of India, in the district of Khasiya. It is 

 a lofty shrub, with long vigorous branches. The leaves are about eight 

 inclies long, broadly-lance-shaped. The flowers are produced on the 

 older (not less than two years old) wood, from the axils of the fallen 

 leaves, in sliortish umbels of numerous blossoms in eacii, and the 

 flowers of the same umbel being in all states of progress, from the early 

 buds to the fully expanded ; they are of a scarlet colour, variegated 

 with pale green at first, afterwards red veined and chequered (some- 

 thing like the common Fritillaria), Avith richer coloured lines. It has 

 bloomed finely in the collection of IMessrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. 

 It is a profuse bloomer, and a most interesting plant. It grows against 

 the wall in a Camellia house. 



Trop^olum speciosum — Showy Indian Cress. 



TropcEokicea: Octandria Monogifnia. 

 From Patagonia, and is, perhaps, the most splendid species of this 

 showy tribe yet received. Witli the habit of T. pentaphyllum, it 

 prochices flowers equal in size to T. Lobbianum, and of the finest 

 crimson-scarlet colour. It was shown by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of 

 Exeter, at the Cliiswick exhibition last month, 



Vanda violacea — Violet coloured. 



Orchidacea. Gijnandna Monandria. 



Mr. Gumming discovered it in Manilla, in the East Indies. The' 

 flowers are produced in short drooping racemes, the ground colour 

 being an ivory-white,, spotted with light violet, the lip being entirely a 

 violet colour. A single blossom is nearly one inch across. It has 

 bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges'. 



