288 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



269. Ce^reus Lema^iru Salm Dyck. Lemaire's Cereus. 



(Oacteas.) Antigua. 



a greenhouse plant; growing four feet high; with white flowers; appearing in June; increased 

 by cuttings. 13ot. Mug., Ifc54, pi. 481-1. 



A new and very splendid species, rivalling in size the 

 night-blooming Cereus, and somewhat resembling in general 

 habit the C. MacDonaldas, noticed in our volume for 1853, 

 (XIX, p. 271.) Its native country is unknown, though it 

 is believed to be Antigua. It is a night-blooming species, 

 highly fragrant, with flowers twelve inches long and nine in- 

 ches across, the sepals yellowish, petals white. The stems 

 are thicker than one's finger, dark green, obtusely triangular, 

 rooting, the angles toothed. It will prove a great acquisition 

 to this singular and brilliant tribe of plants. — {Bot. Mag., 

 Nov.) 



270. Ceano^thus papillo^sus Torr. and Gray. Pappil- 



LOSE Ceanothus. (RhamueaB.) California. 



A half hardy shrub; growing 6 feet high; with blue flowers; appearing in June; increased by 

 layers. Bot. Mag., 1854, pi. 4815. 



A pretty species of this California genus, but unfortunately 

 not hardy in the middle or New England States. The flow- 

 ers appear in dense heads, of a bright blue and are very orna- 

 mental. — {Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



271. Knipho^fia Uva^ria Moiich. Serrulated-leaved 

 Kniphofia. (Asphodeleae.) Cape of Good Hope. 



a half-hnrdy plant; growing three or four feet high; with scarlet flowers; appearing in summer; 

 increased by offsets. Bot. Mag., 1854, pi. 4816. 



An old plant, which has been in cultivation upwards of 150 

 years, and yet just now appears to attract attention. It is 

 planted out in beds in the Botanic Gardens at Kew, where it 

 displays its magnificent spikes of flowers during the summer ; 

 it has attracted much notice, and many inquiries have been 

 made regarding its history, &cc. The root is tuberous, and 

 the leaves grow in dense tufts ; the flower stems are four feet 

 or more high and terminated with a spike of its superb flow- 

 ers. Although a native of the Cape, " no plant can be more 

 hardy, nor more easily cultivated, and avowedly none more 

 worthy of a place in every garden." With us it would prove 



