364 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



Art. VI. Floricultwal and Botanical Notices of New and 

 Beautiful Plants, figured in Foreign Periodicals ; with 

 descriptions of those introduced to, or originated iti, Amer- 

 ican Collections. 



Allama'nda Scho'ttii and grandiflo^ra. — These two su- 

 perb species have recently flowered in our vicinity, the 

 former in our collection, and the latter in that of J. P. Gush- 

 ing, Esq., a fine specimen of which was recently exhibited 

 at one of the shows of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, by Mr. Schimmin, the gardener. It has very largC; 

 yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers, which appear in huge clus- 

 ters. A. Schottw is similar to the grandiflora, but the yellow 

 is a little deeper, and the shape of the flower slightly varied. 

 Both are among the most beautiful climbing plants for the 

 summer greenhouse, their large clusters of deep yellow flow- 

 ers giving a gayness to the whole collection. 



DiPLADE^NiA spLE^NDENs. Tliis lovcly cliuibing plant was 

 exhibited in fine order, on the 17th of July, at the weekly 

 show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The spe- 

 cimen was from Mr. Cushing's garden, and was the most 

 exquisite thing we have recently seen. All the Dipladenias 

 are beautiful, but this ^xcels them all. The flowers are 

 produced in clusters of five or six, each full three inches in 

 diameter, and they are of the most exquisite transparent 

 deep blush or rose tint ; grown with the golden Allamandas, 

 the waxy Stephanotus, and the crimson Ipomseas, the con- 

 trast in color is charming. It is one of the most desirable 

 plants of recent introduction. 



Dipteraca'nthus specta'bilis. — This is a new stove or 

 summer greenhouse plant, related to the Ruellias, but with 

 large, very dark blue flowers, of the size of a petunia. It 

 is a vigorous growing and neat plant, and its very dark flow- 

 ers have a conspicuous appearance among other plants. We 

 think it will succeed finely bedded out ; if it does, it will 

 become a most popular plant. It grows as readily as Ruellia 

 formosa. 



