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 PART II. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



WHICH WE HATE NOTICED SINCE OCB LAST. 



1. A bullion pulchellum, Fragrant-flowered. (Brit. Flow. Card.) Syno- 

 nym, Sida pulchella. A very desirable Lardy shrub, found growing on the 

 banks of rivers in the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales. The shrub 

 grows eight or ten feet high, very branching, deciduous ; the foliage is pretty, 

 leaves two inches long, very crenate, and of a shining dark-green colour. 

 The flowers have the appearance of the common Privet, white, and have a 

 very agreeable Hawthorn fragrancy; they are produced in profusion. The 

 plant is grown in the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, and, we think, at Messrs. 

 I.oddiges's nursery, Hackney. Class, Monadelphia; order, Polyandria. 

 Natural order, Malvaceae. 



2. Acacia prensans, Prickly Feathered Acacia. (Bot. Mag.) This very 

 handsome shrub grows freely in Madeira, and, like many other species of 

 this genus, the long feathery foliage is most graceful and elegant. The 

 flowers are of a sulphur colour, intermixed with a dark red, and are stri- 

 kingly pretty ; they are produced in profusion. The plant is a climber, 

 and will reach to the height of the loftiest tree, and growing very quickly, 

 soon reaches the top, and spreads to every part of its head. The plant is 

 about as hardy as the now common Acacia annate, formerly Mimosa para- 

 doxa. Folygamia Monsecia. Leguminosre. 



3. Caprifolium Itispidulum, Bristly Honeysuckle. Synonym, Lonieera 

 hispidula. {Hot. Keg.) The late Mr. Douglas sent this very neat and 

 handsome flowering Honeysuckle, from North West America, to the London 

 Horticultural Society's Garden. It appears of a dwarf habit, and makes a 

 neat low bush, though the branches are twining. The flowers are small, 

 about an inch long, of a pretty rose colour, nearly destitute of scent. The 

 plant is quite hardy. Pentandria Monogynia. Capri foliaceae. 



1. Chilodia scuUeUanoid.es, Scutellaria -like. Syn. Chilodia auslralis, 

 Prostonthera empetrifolia. {Bol. Mag.) A handsome shrubby, greenhouse 

 plant, native of New South Wales. The shrub grows from three to four feet 

 high; branches very slender, but erect; leaves narrow, about an inch long. 

 The flowers are small, bell-shaped, near half an inch across ; of a pretty 

 bluish purple colour. They are produced in profusion, in spikes, but each 

 flower is solitary. It is a desirable plant for the greenhouse, llowering the. 

 greater part of the year. The plant is in the collection at Kew Gardens, and 

 probably in some of the principal Loudon nurseries. Didynamia Gvmno- 

 spermia. LabiatK. Chilodia, from cheilus, a lip, and oduus, a tooth ; the 

 lower lip of the calyx being divided. 



■j. Dendrobium Pierardia, Mr. Piekard's Dendrobium. (But. Reg.) A 

 very pretty llowering Orchideous plant, cultivated by Messrs. Loddigks; ;■ 

 native of the Fast Indies, where it is found growing on the Mangoe Trees. 

 The racsme of flowers which is usually produced, is near a yard long; each 

 flower is from one to two inches across. The sepals arc of a pinkish-white ; 

 the labellum of a fine yellow colour. The flowers are produced very nume- 

 rously upon the long hanging raceme. Gynandria Monandria. Orchidea-. 



The following new species have recently been brought under the notice of 



cultivators of this singularly pretty tribe of plants: — Dendrobium ockreatum : 

 the flowers are brown, with a purple spotted labellum. Dendrobium Cun- 

 ninqhamii, D- biflorum, D. Griffilhianum, and D. extinctorium. 



6, Epacris imj»ressa,FoYeolated (depressed spotted) Epacris. (But. Mug.) 

 .Messrs. JIaik.iv, of Clapton Nursery, introduced this plant into this coun- 

 try. It is a native of New Holland, and Van Diemau's Land. It is a most 

 elegant species, and deserves a situation in every greenhouse. The mune- 



