90 NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Esq., Knypersley, Staffordshire. DiaJelphia Decandria. Legumiuosje. 

 Indigofera, from indigo, a blue dye stuff, and/fro, to bear. 



XuttalHa papaver, Poppy-like flowering. A very showy flowering plant, 

 the flower-stems rising two feet high. The flowers are of a deep rose-colour, 

 mallow, shaped, from two to three inches across. The plant i hardy, and 

 deserves a place in every flower-garden. It may be had at most of the 

 public nursery establishments. It flourishes in equal parts of leaf mould, 

 peat, and loam. Monadelphia Polyandria. Mahaee;e. Xuttallia, from 

 Mr. Xr/TTALL, who first discovered the plant. 



Oncidium triquetrum. Triquetrous-leaved. Synonym, Cymbidiutn trique- 

 trum. Introduced into this country, from Jamaica, by Cbaju.ES Horsfall, 

 Esq. The flowers are produced in a raceme of about twelve in each, and 

 are of a greenish white, spotted with dark purple; each blossom is about an 

 inch across. The plant is grown in most collections of Orchideous plant*. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Orchidea 3 . Oncidium, from oyhidion, a tubercle ; 

 alluding to two prominences on the lip. 



Ptntslemon Richardson ia, Dr. Richardson's. This plant was found by 

 Mr. Doiglas in Columbia. It is a hardy perennial plant, flowering pro- 

 fusely from May to October, and gi owing about two feet high. The flowers 

 are of a pale purple. The plant deserves a place in every flower-garden. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. Scrophularina\ Pentslemon, from pente, five, 

 and slemon, stamen ; referring to the five stamens of the flower. 



Ruellia elegans, Neat blue-flowered. A very handsome flowering stove 

 annual, from the East Indies ; rising two feet high, and producing flowers 

 numerously. The dowers are salver-shaped, tube purple, limb of a fine 

 bright blue, about half an inch across. Didynamia Angiospermia. Acan- 

 thaceie. Ruellia, in honour of John Rielle, a French botanist. 



Sophora lomenlosa, Downy variety of Sophora, The shrub is a native of 

 the Brazils, and grows five or six feet high. The flowers very much resem 

 hie the Yellow Spanish Broom, sometimes called Reeded Broom ; but are 

 of a rather paler colour. Decandria Monogynia, Leguminosa?. Sophora, 

 from sophera, its Arabic name. 



Tritoma BurcheUii, Mr. Bircheli.'s Tritoma. A pretty flowering hardy 

 perennial plant, from the tape of Good Hope ; blooms in June and July. 

 The flowers are produced very numerously, in a dense head, each flower 

 being about an inch and a half long. 'When the flowers are in an infant 

 state, they are of a blood colour, hut when fully open, of a pale orange. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. Asphodelea>. Tritoma, from Ircis, three, and temno, 

 to cut; referring to the leaves terminating in three angles. 



Verbena sulphured, Sulphur- coloured Vervain. A native of Chile; a hardy 

 perennial, flowering from July to November. The plant grows prostrate, 

 spreading extensively, much like V. pulehella. The flowers are of a pale 

 sulphur colour. Didynamia Angiospermia. "\ erbenaces. Verbena, a 

 Roman name for herbs used in ancient sacrifices. 



Zephyranlhus Spofforthianum. A hybrid, raised by the Hon. and Rev. 

 W. Herbert, of Spofforth. The Lily-shaped flower is rose-coloured, with 

 one stripe of white up the centre of each petal. A very neat flowering bul- 

 bous stove plant. The present variety was raised from fertilising a white- 

 flowered species with the pollen of a red species. Hexandria Monogynia. 

 Amaryllidea?. Zephvranthus, from zephyros, west wind, and anihos, flower. 





