178 Mtices of new and beautiful Plants 



the same style, a fine bold flower, a near approach to the hemi- 

 spherical form, color bright rose, with dark lines, and a beautiful, 

 compact and erect truss of blossoms. After the exhibition we 

 shall notice this and other kinds at greater length. 

 Passijlordceai. 

 Mr. Knight, of the Exotic Nursery^ has raised a new hybrid 

 passiflora, between P. alata and princeps: the foliage bears some 

 resemblance to that of P. alata, and the flowers partake of the 

 elegant form of P. princeps, but are of a beautiful white or 

 cream color: it is a free grower, and produces an abundance of 

 flowers, and has bloomed splendidly in the stove. In its profu- 

 sion of blossoms it probably partakes of the character of the 

 alata, as the princeps in the stove at Mr. Cushing's has not yet 

 flowered, though it has been planted out some time, and made a 

 vigorous growth. [Pax. Mag. Bot.) 



Dicotyledonous, Monopetalous, Plants. 

 Lo&eZiacese. 



LOBFL/^ 



heteropliylla LaUUard. 'Vanoxxs-leaved Lobelia. A Iialf hardy lierbacpoug plant; growing 

 ? feet liigl); with blue flowersj appearing in fc-epteniber; a native of Van Dieman's Land. 

 Bot. Reg., 2014. 



*'It is much the handsomest of the herbaceous lobelias. The 

 flowers are of a particularly clear rich blue, and so large as to 

 produce a very rich and gay appearance, either when the plant 

 is grown singly or in beds." The leaves are both linear and 

 pinnatified; the stem simple, slender, and terminated widi two 

 racemes of flowers: the blossoms are large, somev.hat expanding, 

 and gracefully drooping on peduncles half an inch or more in 

 length. It was raised from seed received from Van Dieman's 

 Land. Dr. Lindley states that the specimen from which the 

 figure was taken was received by him from ]Mr. Veitch of Exe- 

 ter, "with a memorandum that the plant had been hungup in the 

 stove for more than a month ivithout the least soil, and icithout 

 ceasing to flower:''^ a very singular fact, he adds, and quite new 

 in plants of this description. We have no doubt it will prove 

 one of the most beautiful and valuable plants for pot cultivation 

 either in the stove or green-house, and, from its slender habit and 

 size, and brilliancy of its flowers, add greatly to the gayness of 

 its winter habitation. {Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



AsterdceoR. 



CO'SMUS Cfi': (from Kosmos, beantifiil, in allusion to the appearance of (he species.) 

 tenni((Mius iHjrf/. Fine-!eaved Cosmu9, An annual plant; prowini; two feet hiali: with 

 purple flowers; appearing in autumn; a native of Mexico; increased by seeds. Bot. Keg., 

 2007. 



A beautiful annual, with rich purple flowers, an inch and a 

 half in expansion, with a yellow disk, heightened by black an- 

 thers. They rise up on very long and slender peduncles, above 

 the bipinnatified foliage, and have a showy appearance. It is 



