266 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



Belle (TEpinay. — Upper petals nearly black, with white 

 belt ; lower petals white, with a large crimson spot in each. 

 Very brilliant, and fine in habit. 



Perfection. — Similar to Jenny Lind, but of a different 

 habit. A free bloomer. 



174. Phrynium sangui'neum Hook. Sanguineous Phry- 



NUM. (Cannacese.) ? 



A stove plant ; growins; two feet high ; with blood colored flowers : appearing in spring ; in- 

 creased by division of the root ; cultivated in loam and leaf mould. Bot. Reg. 1852, pi. 4646. 



A very showy stove plant, of the habit of the Cannas 

 or Indian shot, to which natural family it belongs. The 

 sheaths of the petioles, as well as the under side of the 

 leaves, are of a deep red, which gives the plant an ornamen- 

 tal appearance when not in flower; " but the inflorescence 

 adds greatly to the beauty, the upper part of the long pedun- 

 cle, the copious bracts, and the fioAvers and pedicels, and 

 rachis, being alike of a rather light red color." {Bot. Mag., 

 May.) 



175. Rhodode'ndron cilia^tum, var. roseo a'lbum Hook. 

 Rose white-fringed Rhododendron. (Ericacese.) Sik- 

 kimhimalaya. 



a half hardy shrub ; growing four feet high ; with rose and white tlowers ; appearing in 

 spring ; increased by layers and grafting. Bot. Mag. 1652, pi. 4648. 



This is one of the new Sikkim Rhododendrons, raised 

 from seeds, at Kew, less than two years ago. Six plants of 

 it have produced flowers while only seven inches high, and 

 others are showing blossoms. '• Their flowering," Dr. Hook- 

 er remarks, "has given us peculiar pleasure, as the first of 

 the Sikkim Rhododendrons which have done so." It is a 

 beautiful plant, having very large flowers, of a delicate 

 white, tinged with red rose color. The leaves, stamens, and 

 indeed the entire plant is clothed with long ferruginous hairs. 

 This variety comes from an elevation of 9 — 10,000 feet, and 

 has proved quite hardy in England the past winter. It will 

 undoubtedly winter in a frame in our climate. Its dwarf 

 stature, and free blooming habit, will render it a favorite 

 plant. (Bot. Mag., May.) 



