532 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



is white, elegantly blotched and streaked with blood color, 

 singularly striking and beautiful. 



It is a native of Western Australia, and was first seen by 

 Drummond, who spoke in raptures of two distinct species, 

 both of which have been raised from seeds received from 

 that country by Messrs. Garraw, Mayes & Co., of the Bristol 

 nursery, who exhibited them in great perfection in April last. 

 They will both prove superb additions. {Bot. Ma«-., July.) 



290. Genetyllis macroste^gia Turez. Large Involu- 



CRED Genetyllis. (Myrtaceas.) Australia. 



A hardy greenhouse plant ; growing two feet high; with r<.d involiic res ; a|j|)eariiie in spring; 

 increased by cuttings; grown in leaf mould, peat and sand. Dot. Mag., 185j, pi. 4S60. 



Similar in habit to the G. tulipifera, but with smaller foliage 

 and with red or crimson involucres, which, though not quite 

 so large or striking in their color, as the former, present a 

 more brilliant appearance. Both have the merit of continu- 

 ing in flower three or four months at a time. The involucres 

 are of a dry membranaceous character, and would probably 

 retain their color and form, in a dried state, like Xeranthe- 

 mums and other so-called everlastings. — {Bot. Mag., July.) 



291. Rhodode'ndron californicum Hook. California 



Rhododendron. (Ericaceae.) California. 



a half hardy (or hifrily.'') plant; growing three or four feet high; with delicate pink flowers; 

 appearing in summer; increased by layers; grown in sandy peat and loam. Bot. Mag., 1853, p). 



JS03. 



A fine rhododendron from California, which has attracted 

 much attention among the English cultivators. It has much 

 the habit of it. catawbiense, with stout branches, and flowers 

 freely, a plant a foot high, having three or four of its showy 

 heads of blossoms. It was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, 

 King's Road, where " we were struck with the great beauty of 

 living flowering plants of the same, exhibiting a richness of 

 color in the varied pale and deep rosy tints of the numerous 

 corollas of which the large heads are beautifully nestled in an 

 involucre as it were, formed by the handsome green leaves 

 constituting a dark back ground to the flowers." It is not 

 stated in what locality it was found, or at what elevation, 

 but probably it may prove hardy, and become, a most valua- 

 ble acquisition. — {Bot. Mag., July.) 



