352 New or if liar sting Plants. 



Piil)lislieil hv Dr. Hooker, in the Hut. Afag., as a native of Triniilad; but 

 Professor Liiuiley >itates it to be from Nepal. Few orcbiiicous plants are 

 more attractive tiian this. The leaves are scattered over with fjoltlen 

 spots; the Howers are eminently beautiful. (Bot. Cab., May, 1832.) 



£554. EI'IDE NDRUM. 



varicgvitum Uiiuk. var.lud.SiJId _^ El or 1 ja Vsh g.spot P Rio Jan. 1830. D p.r.w Bot.mag. 3151 



Two or three leaves terminate each i)seuclo-bulb : these leaves are 

 8 to loin, long, strap-shaped, obtuse, striated, of a yellow green dashed 

 with deeper spots ; so that they have a variegated appearance. The raceme 

 consists of eight or ten flowers. The perianth has six spreading, somewhat 

 leathery, segments, of a yellowish green colour, yellower towards their tips 

 which are obtuse, and their upper or inner side is sprinkled almost all over 

 with blackish purple spots. Dr. Hooker says of E[)idendrum variegatum, 

 " It is extremely unlike any other species of the genus with which 1 am 

 acquainted, and the flowers are very beautiful. The leaves, too. being 

 spotted with a darker colour, have a remarkable appearance." (^£ol. 

 Mag., May.) 



Seasonable Hints on Floriculture. — By the first day of June the night 

 frosts of spring may be fairly considered as past; and, consequently, imme- 

 diately after this date, [)reparation may be matle for transplanting into 

 vacancies, in the compartments of the hardy flower-garden, whatever 

 superfluous duplicates or multiplicates of ornamental plants the green- 

 house or the hot-house may contain. As eligible plants for out-door 

 summer decoration large plants of the fuchsias may be named, not forget- 

 ting the new species Fuchsw bacillaris, described |). "2"ir)., as soon as it can 

 he obtained. Salvia splendens, fulgens, involucrata, Ciraham/, and even 

 Formosa, are particularly splemlid; and .S'. fulgens, planted in rich light 

 soil, at the base of a warm-aspected wall, anil traineil over the face of that 

 wall, forms, in autunm, an especially splendid object ; the numerous spikes 

 of scarlet flowers, produced at the extremity of its branches, having the 

 effect of marking the plant's outline with a gorgeous wreath of scarlet. 

 I'ctiinia nyctaginiflora, whose large white flowers arc very fragrant by 

 night, treateil in the same way, is surprisingly improved, and rendered a 

 very ornamental subject. (See Mr. Sweet's account of the result of this 

 treatment in Vol. HI. p. 297.) Pelargoniums may be copiously planted 

 out; and the trailing-stemnied ivy-leaveil kimls, traineil oxcx the surface of 

 little beds set apart for them, and pegged into the soil at their joints, cover 

 the earth with their glossy leaves charmingly, and flower beautifully and 

 ubiuidantly in autumn. Maurandy« lJarclay««cr and M. semperHorcns are 

 well known sununer climbers of great elegance and beauty; and although 

 there is u coarseness of aspect in that frc'c-growing ti^ecly increasing 

 novelty, Loj)hos|)erm:un ernbescens, it is a climbL-r whose copious wreaths 

 of rosy blossoms excel in beauty and ornamental eflcct many other jjlants 

 the habit of wliich is more delicate. (See a more iletailed notice of it in 

 Vol. VH. p. 201.) Besides these, numerous house |)lanls, which it is super- 

 fluous to enumerate, may be made conducive to the fl(jral decoration of the 

 hardy garden ; and while thinking of the beauty of the blossoms of plants, 

 it will be well not to forget tlie beauties of foliage also, /mcus elastica 

 is a beautiful object in its leaves during summer and autumn, when plunged 

 over the rim of its pot in the soil of a sunny border ; so also are the ex- 

 (juisitely leaved New Holland acacias, and numerous other plants. In the 

 plants named above for the beauty of their blossoms liouvarihVz triphylla 

 should really have been mentioned, and our readers referred to the excel- 

 lent article by Mr. Mearnsin Vol. VII. p. IH., for a mode of cultivating this 

 beautiful plant in the summer beds and borders most successfidly, and also 

 for a mode of so propagating it, as to have [)lauts of it in abundance. — /. D. 



