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ECHEVERIA RETUSA — BlUNT-LEAVED. 

 CrassalacecE. Decandria Pentagynia. 

 A native of Mexico. It is a pretty dwarf greenhouse half-shrubby 

 plant. The flower stem rises about a foot higli, and bears at the 

 summit a large compact panicle of handsome crimson-coloured flowers. 

 Each blossom, hanging somewhat like a small Columbine flower, with 

 its rich coloured outside and yellow inside, has a very pretty appear- 

 ance. (Figured in Hot. Iteg., 57.) 



Echinocactus cinnabarinus — Cinnabar-flowered. 



CactecE. Ic.osandria Monogynia. 

 In the splendid collection of Cactese at the Royal Gardens of Kew. 

 It is globose-formed, flowering freely. Each blossom is nearly four 

 inches across, a very ricii cinnabar-crimson colour, with the margin of 

 the petals ligliter. It is a very handsome species, and the large flowers 

 of so small a globe give it a striking appearance. (Figured in Bot. 

 Mag., 4326.) 



Epacris Tauntoniensis — The Taunton Epacris. 

 Mr. Ball, nurseryman, of Taunton, raised this beautiful hybrid, we 

 are informed, betwixt E. grandiflora and E. impressa. The flowers 

 are of bright rosy-crimson colour, with the five-parted mouth of a pale 

 pink. A single blossom is about three-quarters of an inch long. It 

 is a very handsome variety, and well deserving to be in every col- 

 lection. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bat.) 



Henpreya scandens — Climbing Henfreya. 



Dr. Lindley constituted a new genus, to which the name of Henfreya, 

 in honour of Mr. A. Ilenfrey, has been applied. It belongs to that 

 group of acanthaceous plants of which liuellia is made the type. The 

 species under notice is a stout climbing plant, but does not apparently 

 attain a great heiglit. It has large, opposite, elliptic, somewiiat leathery, 

 sliining leaves, and racemes of large white sweet-scented flowers, which 

 have a funnel-shaped tube, and two-lipped limb, the segments of the 

 latter nearly equal. It is a native of Sierra Leone. 



Hibiscus grassulari/efohus — Gooseberry-leaved Hibiscus. 



Seeds were sent from the Swan River colony, and plants raised in 

 the Royal Gardens of Kew. It is a shrub growing three feet high, 

 and if planted and trained against a wall is a beautiful open-border 

 plant, blooming all the summer season. Each flower is four inclies 

 across, of a rich blueish-purple colour. Blooming profusely renders it 

 very showy. (Figured in JJot. Mag., 4329.) 



IIoYA camfanulata — Bell-flowered. 



A native of Java, where it inhabits the mountain tliickets, and 

 blooms all tlie year round. Its Iiabit is that of a tiiin-leaved Hoya. 

 Tlie flowers are borne in numerous-flowered umbels ; tliey are bell- 



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