374 J^otices of new and beautiful Plants 



prove valuable, as we believe few or none of them, except the 

 common, will live through our winters. The flowers are very hand- 

 somely displayed in terminal and lateral racemes, and have a showy 

 aspect. It was raised from seeds, in the garden of the London 

 Horticultural Society, received from Dr. Ledebour, of Dorpat. 

 It inhabits rocks in that range of the Caucassus which runs into 

 the Caspian Sea, and is consequently well adapted to rock-work. 

 Seeds should be sown in May, and when of sufficient size pot- 

 ted off into small pots, and wintered in a frame, after which they 

 may be planted in the border to flower, where they may remain. 

 (Bot. Reg., July.) 



MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PlANTS. 



Hcemodordcece. 



ANIGOZA'NTHOS 

 iiiiVida. Redout. Yellow -/laircfZ Anieozanthos. A ereen-house plant; prowing two feet high; 

 with green and red flowers; appearing in April and May; a native of New Holland; in- 

 creased by young side shoots; grown in rich loam, sand and peat. Bot. Reg., n. s. 37. 



A singular species introduced to Britain long since, but rare- 

 ly seen in collections. The flowers are tubular, green on the out- 

 side and red in, and in terminal racemes of five or six each, and 

 from four to eight racemes on one stem. It is cultivated in the 

 green-house, in a soil composed of rich loam, mixed with about 

 one fourth of sand and peat, to which a small quantity of dung 

 may be added. To grow it well, it needs plenty of pot room, 

 and an airy part of the green-house, near the glass. When grow- 

 ing luxuriantly, it requires considerable water. [Bot. Reg.., July.) 



A splendid variety, with scarlet and green flowers, has been 

 raised by R. Mangles, Esq., from seeds, which will soon be 

 figured. (Bot. Reg., July.) 



Iriddcem. 



TRITO'NIA (from TVifon, a vane, or weathercock, in allusion to the variableness of the spe- 

 cies of this Eenus as regards tlie direction of their anliiers.) Ker. 

 fucata Lindl. Painted Tritoiiia. A green-house or frame hiilb; growing about two feet hieh; 

 with orange and yellow flowers; appearing in June? a native of the Cape of Good Hope; 

 increased by offsets; growing in rich soil. Bot. Reg., n. s, 35. 



Communicated by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Herbert, who re- 

 ceived the bulbs from the Cape twenty-five years ago, but he 

 never succeeded in flowering it until the summer of 1837. The 

 bulbs have increased so rapidly, that hundreds of them were pur- 

 posely dug up and destroyed. In the autumn of 1836 it occur- 

 red to Mr. Herbert to have dung laid upon the patches in the 

 open ground, where the bulbs were growing, and the result was 

 the production of a flower-stem in the following summer. From 

 this fact he doubts not that manure is the requisite to make it 

 flower freely. 



The flowers are erect, ventricose, but slightly expanding at 

 the summit, and of a deep orange color. It is a beautiful and 

 desirable species. [Bot. Reg., July.) 



