Ift2 EXTRACTS. 



NAMES. DESCRIPTION. 



(>22 Royal Grandis Small pair blush. 



o'23 Mantle Fine bright blush. 



fi24 Provinco Large fine curled deep blush. 



fi2o Rubiflora Bright red. 



H2t> Rubrispina Large fine red. 



(to be continued.) 



PART II. 

 EXTRACTS. 



Plants figured in the following Periodicals for July : — 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. Price 

 3s. 6d. coloured ; 3s. plain. 



1. Epidcndrum bicornulum, Two-horned Epidendrum. Class, Gynandria* 

 order, Monandria. Natural order, Leguminosre. This charming orchideons 

 plant is a native of Trinidad, and was introduced to the stoves of Europe 

 by Messrs. Shepherd, of Liverpool. It was flowered by Mr. Cooper, of 

 Wentworth Garden-;, in April last : the flowers are large, white, and highly 

 fragrant, smelling like those of the Persian Iris. 



2. Verbena chamccdri/olia, Scarlet-flowered Vervain. Didynamia, Angio- 

 spermia. Verbenaccie. Synonyms, Verbena veronicifolia, V. Melindres, 

 Erinus Peruvianus. No plant with which we are acquainted exhibits 



" flowers of so brilliant and dazzling a scarlet as the present : and although 

 a native of the Banda Orientale, the Plata, and the whole of the Pampas of 

 Buenos Ayres, as far as the provinces of Cordova and St. Luis, it is found 

 to flourish in the open air with us, and to bear our moderate winters unhurt. 

 It should, however, as we may judge from the character of the soil in its 

 native country, and indeed from what we know of the habit of almost the 

 whole genus, have its roots well drained. It is then, too, better able to repel 

 the effects of our severer frosts. It flowers during the whole summer, and 

 if planted in patches of considerable size, or beds, it is impossible to con- 

 ceive the splendour of its appearance without seeing it. 



3. Trachymene lanceolatn, Lance-leaved Trachymene. Pentandria, Di- 

 gynia. Umbelliferce. Syn. Azorella lanceolata. A native of Port Jackson, 

 where it inhabits dry, barren, rocky situations. " With us," Mr. Allan 

 Cunningham writes from Kew, " it is a hardy greenhouse plant, and was 

 first introduced to our culture in the King's Gardens, from a solitary indivi- 

 dual springing up in a box of Orchidese received from New South Wales in 

 1825, In that collection, it makes a variety among other compatrots; 

 where, although it belongs to a family possessing few external attractions to 

 the horticulturist, it nevertheless recommends itself to the care of the culti- 

 vator, not less by the freedom of its growth, than by the ready disposition 

 it exhibits to produce its ample umbels of flowers at various seasons." The 

 petals are five, spreading, white, eliptical, entire. Trachymene, from tin 

 Greek truchus, rough; and menc, a membrane, — on account of the tubercu- 

 lated coat of the fruit. 



-1. Ribes sanguineum, Red-flowered Currant. Pentandria, Monogynia. 

 Grossulariese. Syn. Ribes malvaceum. Few, if any, of the numerous inte- 

 resting and hardy plants introduced to our gardens by Mr. Douglas, from 



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