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PART II. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



WHICIl WE HAVE NOTICED SINCE OUR LAST. 



Acacia unduhvfolia, Waved-leaved Variable-growing Acacia. (Bot. Mag.) 

 A very pretty flowering species, from New Holland. The flowers are about 

 the size and colour of the well-known (commonly called) Mimosa paradoxa : 

 they are produced in profusion at the ends of the shoots. In its native 

 country, the plant inhabits the rocky hills, and, therefore, must have to 

 endure occasional frosts : consequently, we think it might be inured to this 

 climate, in the warmer parts of the country. The plant grows about 4 feet 

 high, bushy, and, with its profusion of yellow flowers, would make a con- 

 spicuous figure. It merits a place in every greenhouse. Polygamia Mo- 

 ntecia. Leguminosa?. Acacia, from akazo, to sharpen; many species being 

 thorny. 



Alstrameria Flos Martini, St. Martin's Flower of Chile. Synonyms, A. 

 tricolor, A. pulchella. A very handsome flowering plant. The flowers are 

 produced in umbels of from four to eight in each. The flower-stem rises 

 about 12 inches high. The flowers are bell-shaped; the lower petals have 

 a purplish outside, and edges of a sulphur white ; two upper petals, the 

 upper part of each of a fine yellow, dotted with deep red spots ; the lower 

 part of a flesh-colour. The plant has usually been cultivated in the green- 

 house, but it will do well in the open border in a warm situation; or it mav 

 be grown in an open border in summer, taken up, and kept in a sheltered 

 place in winter. It may be obtained at most of the nursery and florist 

 establishments. It flourishes in equal parts of sandy peat and vegetable 

 mould. Hexandria Monogynia. Amaryllideie. Alstranneria, from Baron 

 Alstr^mer, a Swedish botanist. 



Calasetum purum, Spotless-flowering. (But. Mag.) This orchideous plant 

 was introduced into this country eight or ten years since, by Chas. Hors- 

 fall, Esq., and has since been under the successful culture of that gentle- 

 man and Messrs. SHEPHERD-, of Liverpool. The plant produces a spike of 

 greenish yellow flowers, 10 inches long. It has bloomed in Mr. Horsfall's 

 excellent collection of orchideous plants, as well as at the Botanic Garden. 

 Gynandria Monaudria. Qrchides. Calasetum, from cata, downwards, and 

 seta, bristle; referring to the horns of the column. 



Cynoches Loddigesii, Loddiges' Swamvort. Another very singular flower- 

 ing orohtdeous epiphyte from Surinam; sent from thence six years since by 

 .(. II. I.wi e, Esq. tn Missis. LODDIGES. Tho flowers are nearly 6 inches 

 h'Tos^. Sepals pale green, spotted and marked with reddish brown. La- 

 bellum flesh-coloured, centre white, the end yellow, the whole dotted with 

 blood-coloured sp..ts. Column of a dark purple; the end green, spotted 

 With red. The flowers are highly fragrant, particularly at the early part of 

 tho day. Oynandria Monaudria! Orchideae. Cynoches, derived from 

 Itulmos, a swan, and auchen, neck ; referring to the column of the flower, 

 « blcfa resembles the neck of a swan when curved. 



Indigoftra atropurpurea, Purple flowered lmligo Plant A very handsome 

 flowering shrubby stove plant, flowering most profusely. The blossoms are 

 produ c ed in racemei of two or three inches long. The keel part of each 

 flown is of it dark purple, uud tin- wings of a light crimson. The plaut 



merit* u place Inererj store, ii is grown in the collection of J, Batman, 



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