64 BRIEF NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Mandevilla suaveolens. The flowers have the perfume of the orange blossom, 

 and are produced in racemes of six or eight from the axils of the leaves. Each 

 flower is about half an inch long, and as much across, bell-shaped, of a purple 

 colour, with green tips. It is likely to prove quite hardy. 



Lapageria Rosea. fSmilaceosJ — An exceedingly handsome climbing plant 

 from Chili, producing large bell-shaped flowers, of a brilliant rosy-red, speckled 

 with white. They are pendulous, and produced singly in the axils of the leaves, each 

 blossom being three inches long, and two and a half inches wide at the mouth. 

 It grows freely, and will probably prove as hardy as the Chilian Alstrcemerias. 



Liliuji Giganteum. {Liliacece.) — The most splendid of all the Lilies, and, 

 indeed, few plants of any order exceed it in magnificence. A native of Nepaul, 

 whence seeds of it were sent by Major Madden. Messrs Veitch of Exeter have 

 also imported bulbs of this plant from the same locality through their collector. 

 When of full growth, it attains the height of twelve feet, bearing large white flowers, 

 spotted with crimson ; and the scent is so powerful, that a single flower cannot be 

 endured in a room for any length of time. It is perfectly hardy, but will not, we 

 ear, be very common for several years. 



Penstemon Bacchar^efolius. ( Scrophulariacea.J — A native of Texas, whence 

 seeds were sent by Dr. Wright. Apparently a half-hardy perennial, but may be 

 treated as an annual, as it blooms the first season. The flowers are of a bright 

 scarlet colour, produced in terminal panicles, and are very handsome. It grows 

 from one to two feet high. 



Salvia Candlelabrum. (Labiatce.) — A hardy perennial from the South of 

 Spain, with leaves like those of Salvia officinalis. The flower stem rises a yard 

 high, branching, and producing numerous large blossoms, with a greenish yellow 

 upper lip, and a rich violet lower one, each flower being an inch and half long, 

 and one across the expanded mouth. A handsome species. (Figured in Paxton's 

 Floicer Garden.) 



Trop^olum Pe>tdulum. ( Tropaolacea.) — A half-hardy climbing annual. Calyx 

 of the flower yellow, with greeu tips ; petals yellow, the two upper ones marked 

 with red lines, and a violet-coloured bar near the edge. A very pretty species 

 introduced from Central America to Berlin, by Mr. Mathicu. 



Viburnum Macrocephalum. (Caprifoliacece.) — The most remarkable of all 

 the Viburnums. A hardy shrub from the North of China, producing at the 

 points of its shoots immense trusses of pure white flowers, and when in bloom, 

 forms a striking object in the shrubbery. Small specimens flower freely ; we 

 believe Messrs. Standish and Noble of Bagshot, who possess this plant, exhibited 

 last spring a flowering specimen which had been struck from a cutting the 

 previous summer. 



