68 Floricultural and Botanical J^otices. 



only be grown to perfection in a large house, where, if plant- 

 ed out in the border, or placed in a large tub, it forms a really 

 magnificent object. (Bot. Reg., June.) 

 Balsamindcece. 



iMPA'TIENS 

 rdsea. £,incll. Small pink Balsam. A half hardy annual; growing two feet, high; with 

 pale rosy flowers; appearing all summer; a native of Indiaj increasi d by seeds. Boi. 

 Keg., 1841, t. 27. 



Another of the new East India balsams, attaining the height 

 of two to three feet, with leaves six or eight inches long, lin- 

 ear lanceolate, tapering to the base, and bordered with fine 

 saw-teeth. The flowers appear in axillary clusters, all along 

 the stem and branches. The stalks (petioles) are blood red, 

 and about as long as those of the leaves. The sepals are 

 deep rose color, and the petals much larger and paler than the 

 sepals, and of the two lobes of which they consist, the small- 

 er are rounded and erect, while the larger are half oblong, and 

 hang down like a double lip in front of the flower. The pods 

 are oblong and covered with white wool. Received from the 

 directors of the East India Company, and flowered in the 

 garden of the London Horticultural Society. Managed pre- 

 cisely like the common balsam. (Bot. Reg., IMay.) 



cdndida Lindh ^Vhite Balsam. An annual; growing six feet high; with white flowers; 

 appearing all summer; a native of East India; increased by seeds. Bot. Reg., 1841, 

 t,20. 



"A Stately annual, with brittle succulent stems," growing 

 six feet high, bright green, obtusely quadrangular, and branch- 

 ed to the very ground. The leaves are narrow, lanceolate, 

 tapered to the point, arranged in whorls of three, and edged 

 with fine crimson teeth. The flowers are large, showy, 

 white, a little speckled with crimson, and appear in loose ter- 

 minal umbels of from five to twelve each. 



A most superb species, forming a fine object for the flower 

 border. In England, it is a tender annual, only attaining per- 

 fection in the green-house: with us, it would grow and flower 

 as abundantly in the open border as the common balsam. It 

 needs a rich moist soil and an open situation. The seeds 

 were received by the Horticultural Society from the directors 

 of the East India Company. [Bot. Reg., April.) 

 'Plumbaginidceoe. 



ARME'RtA Endlich. 

 fascic.ulAta De Caiid. Fascicled Thrift. A frame perennial; growing three feet high; 

 with pinlc flowers; appearing in August; a native of Corsica; increased by division 

 of the root. Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 21, 



A fine species, forming "a pretty bush, looking like a young 

 pine tree," producing its heads of pink flowers in the month 



