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 PART II. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



WHICH WE HAVE NOTICED SINCE OUH LAST. 



Acanthophippium b'molor, Two-coloured Barrel Orchis. (Bot. Reg.) The 

 first plant of this new genus imported into this country from Ceylon, has 

 bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. It is another 

 addition to the singular Orchideous tribe of plants ; the foliage has the appear- 

 ance of a Bletia. The flowers are produced in clusters of three or four toge- 

 ther. The flowers are principally yellow, the ends being spotted with a 

 crimson red, and partly suffused with flesh colour, particularly before they 

 expand. The flower is about two inches long, of a campanulate form. We 

 find this tribe of Epiphytes to flourish well ill sandy peat soil, with a quan- 

 tity of small stones^ broken pots or gravel, the size of a horse bean. Class, 

 Gynandria; order, Monandria; natural order, Orchidese. 



Anemone vili/olium, Vine-leaved. {Bot. Mag.) Lord Amherst sent this 

 species from India. We suppose the northern part thereof, as the plant will 

 flourish in the open border in this country. It delights in a shady and moist 

 situation, where it will grow two feet high, and flowering freely, renders it a 

 showv plant; the blossoms are white, about an inch and a half across. Po- 

 lyandria Polygvnia. Ranunculacea?. 



" Alstrcemerla Salsiila, Small flowered. (Brit. Flow. Gard.J This is another 

 beautiful flowering plant from Chili, from whence it was introduced into this 

 country, in 1831, and is cultivated very successfully by Mr. Knight, Nur- 

 seryman, King's Road, Chelsea. It will flourish in the open border, a warm 

 situation should be made choice of. The flowers are produced in umbels of 

 ten or twelve in each. The flowers are of a reddish purple, with a lighter 

 centre striped with dark red, each flower about an inch across. The stem of 

 the plant is twining, and will grow from two to four feet high. The present 

 species has been confounded with A. edulis, but the flowers of the latter are 

 entirely red. Hexandria Monogynia; Amaryllidese. Alstnemeria, named 

 in compliment to Baron Aj.str.emer, a Swedish botanist. 



Anagallis Monelli, var. Willmoreana, Mr. Willmore's variety of Italian 

 Pimpernel. (Bot. Mag.) A very handsome variety of the old Italian, blue 

 flowered, Pimpernel, raised by John Willmore, Esq., Warwickshire. The 

 blossom is larger than the old species, and appears of a more brilliant colour. 

 The flowers of the variety are of a fine brilliant blue purple on the upper 

 side and has a small yellow centre; the under side of the petals are of a 

 pale red. The seed from which the present plant was raised was obtained 

 from Madeira. Pentandria Monogynia. Prirnulaceae. Anagallis, from 

 Anagelao. to laugh ; the plant having a tendency to remove despondency. 



Brugmansia sanguined, Dark red flowered. (Brit. Flow. Gard.J Syn. Brug- 

 mansia bicolor, Datura sanguinea. This Peruvian Brugmansia was raised 

 by Miss Trail, Hayes Place, in Kent. The plant grows about five feet 

 high and is tolerably hardy ; no doubt it will flourish well in a warm situa- 

 tion in the open border. The flowers are of an orange red colour outside, 

 and fine orange scarlet inside. The size of the flowers being eight inches 

 lon<*, and their colour splendid, renders this plant a very great acquisition to 

 the gardens. The plant should be forwarded in the spring, in a greenhouse, 

 vinery, or plant stove, &c, and be turned out in the open air at the end of 

 Mav,"and it will blossom for a considerable time. If allowed to grow out 

 both summer and winter, the plant will not show bloom before the end of 

 September or early in October, and the flowers will then be liable to injury 

 bv the cold night air. Pentandria Monogynia, Solaneaj, Brugmansia in 



