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NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Abelia floribunda — Corious flowering. 



Capri/ollucece. Didijnamia Angiospermia. (Syu. Vessaliajlorihuiida.) 



Ill a former volume of tlie Flouk ultural Cabinet we gave a figure 

 of tliis very neat and beautiful flowering greenliouse plant. Since that 

 time it lias attracted much attention at the horticultural shows in and 

 around London under other names, and sometimes corruptefl into 

 llusselia. In some of the Belgium gardens it is known under the 

 name of Fuchsia, species from Mexico. It was discovered hy Galeotti 

 near Vera Cruz, upon one of the Mexican mountains, at an elevation 

 of about ten thousand feet. It is a shrub growing from two to three 

 feet high, branching. The flowers are tube formed, two inches long, 

 of a bright purple-red colour. Tliey are produced at the ends of tiie 

 branches in clusters of three or four togetlier, pendant. We find it 

 bloom very freely, is handsome, and well deserves a place in tlie green- 

 liouse. It can be procured clieap. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 431G.) 



Seedling Cork^as. 



In former Numbei's we have figured and noticed some handsome 

 hybrids ; since whicii time other beautiful seedlings have been raised. 

 Mr. Gaines iias produced several, distinct and pretty, which are figured 

 in " Paxton's Magazine of Botany " for August, viz., Bhilliant, a 

 bright rosy-crimson; Rubra, a dull red; Coccinea, red, with green 

 streaks and a green mouth ; Rosea- alba, delicate rose, with a white 

 mouth, very neat; Magniflora, white, witii a tinge of sulphur; 

 Viridiflora-alba, tube white, with a bright green mouth, very 

 pretty. The two following are also figured from seedlings in Messrs. 

 Henderson's collection : — Pulciiella, a rich orange-red, flower an 

 inch long, somewhat bell-shaped, very jiretty ; Delicata, lilac-pink, 

 flower bell-sliaped, very neat. They ai-e a pretty addition to our 

 winter flowers for the greenhouse, well deserving culti\ation in every 

 one. 



Cattleya bulbosa — The Bulbous. 



OrchidecE. Gytiandria Monandria. 



This beautiful species is supposed to be a native of Brazil, and has 

 recently bloomed in the collection of Mr. Rucker, at Wandsworth. 

 The sepals and petals are of a beautiful lilac-pink ; lip of a rich purple- 

 crimson. Eacii flower is about tiiree inches and a-lialf across. They 

 do not rise above six inches from the parent-trailing stalk. 



jEschynantiius speciosus — The Suowy. 



Cijriandracea. Didijnamia Angiospermia. 



Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, exliiliited tliis new and fine species at the 

 Chiswick and Regent'y I'ark shows the past season, where it was greatly 

 admired, and deemed tlie most beautiful species hitherto exhibited. 

 Messrs. Veitch's collector, ]\Ir. Lobl), discovered it in Java, and 

 transmitted seeds to them. It was found attached to tlie trunks of 



