NEW OR RARE PLANTS. I35 



rous spikes or fine rose coloured flowers make it a charming plant It 

 grows about a yard high, with numerous branches, nearly the whole of which 

 produce a snjke of flowers each. The plant, though but recently introduced 

 Kparridea " 10St PUbliC nurse,ies - Pentandria Mon^yX 



7. GohlfussiaanisophyUa, Unequal leaved, fft* M a *) Svn. Ruellia 

 amsophyl h, A very handsome flowering hothouse plant, from the E as 



ndiesj blooming freely .n winter and spring. The /lowers are funnel- 

 Shaped, an inch and a half long, of a pretty purplish blue, streaked with 

 ^yellow, and red. Didynamia Angiospermia. Acanthaceea. Gold- 

 fBMia, in honour of Dr. Goldfuss, Professor of Natural History. 



8. Genista ephedroides, Ephedra-like. (Ho/. Card.) A hardy shrub re- 



SSStbS^A ' WESTCOTT > ?r h > ot Evdi ^™> » ear BirSniC 



'"" Sardinia. I he Aowersare small, yellow; the plant grows a yard high 



blooming iron, .Tune to September. Monadelphia Decandria. LegumiS 



9. Lepanthus trtdentala, Three-toothed-leaved. (Rot. Reo.) A small Or 



• hideous plant, be.ng a native of the mountainous part of Jama ica The 

 l; anus so diminu.ive that it is scarcely observable" in L tnZLong* 

 which it grows upon the trees. Messrs. Loudiges cultivate the plant in 

 damp moss under a bell glass. The flowers are-petals purple fabellu 

 yellow, about half an inch across. Gynandria MoSmS oSC 

 .epanthu. from lepos, bark.orfepw, small, and anthos, nW the flowers' 

 being small, and the plant growing upon a tree. ' 6 ' 



0. Mvttsia laHfolia, Broad-leaved. (Brit. Flora. Card.) This curious 

 and pretty shrubby plant is a native of Valparaiso, in Chile where V s 

 found climbing to a great height. It has flowered for the first Ime in h ' 

 com ry, m the collection of the Rev. T. Sblwtk, at Kilmington Wiltshi e 

 The dowers are of a pretty pink colour, centre yellow, nearly three inches' 

 across, and being of the Syngenesious class of flowers, are ™ ■ ^ s l 7 

 genesm Po ygamia Superflua, Composite. Mutisia, in bono ,r of D T '" 

 « ; I .s chief of the botanical expedition .0 New Granada C ' 



1 . ynadtum cilnnwn, Lemon-coloured Oncidium. (Hot. ]{ e „ ) Another 

 Orch.deous plant, from Trinidad, which has been culUvaSivMeS 

 I.onniCES. The flowers are about an inch across of a ™ l! 1 " We , ssrs - 



ass .tr cskss. sS •"* " rs = 



nrinoee* Orobus, from oro, to excite, and bom, a bullock. ^ 



1 .». V tywontA,,, attew, White Bladderbloom. (Hot. Iieg.) A native of 



M.a.,„ , rcpunng a warn, greenhouse or hothouse in tin country The 



M """ sl, , n " "«>ning to a considerable extent. The /lowers are snln 



; ; :; . ;; ,-ulat,, about three part, of an inch across; white, SSfrSJKg 



Slg^nS! 3 SaSS?" Cy ""' S ° £ "" ««™nP°n«aV PenSSa 



II .V«.,v/^a W^/av,, Fringe leaved. A hardy greenhouse species from 



» ■ ;'■ -/««y-„ H .,/ ttW , , ,,. b R?8eh CA^W.Omi) This 



KlnS S • tflo 8 ""'"'•' ' l,iS " 11 ^ Mr ' SM,T "> Norbiton, near 



■;u ,,;>,■ U '' r r" n P rodu ««l in largo heads, of fifteen in 



■',, '' "' ; l '"' ll Pink, marked with dark red or cri so 



1 Jo plan t ,.s quite hardy, and deaerve. a place in .very Amer'ca 

 BOW, r-bedor border. Air. S.Mnu hag plants on sale. Decandria Mono K y 



"' ^':'T\'" 1 '"" !'"' L "'"' '''"'■ """"""»> halryJeaved. (Bot. Ma,,.) A 



M.....„ ', ;, i;,:""' Bree °' : "" 1 jotted wiH. dark brown. G vnaimri. 



