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liarly attractive, the tube being deep red, terminating in a broad stripe of dove- 

 color on each segment, the interior of the fiower being pale pink. 



ipsea spcciosa. Beautiful Ipsea (Bot. Mag., t. 5701). — Orchidaceae. A beau- 

 tiful terrestrial orchid, a native of Ceylon. The rhizomes are tuberous and hard, 

 as large as a nut, or larger ; leaf usually solitary from the rhizome ; scape one to 

 two flowered ; flowers two and a half inches in diameter, golden-yellow, with 

 faint red lines on the disk of the lip. 



Hibiscus 7)tariiiora1us, Marble-flowered Hibiscus (Bot. Mag., t. 5702). — Mal- 

 vaceae. A fine plant, native of Mexico : it flowered in the stove at Kew in Feb- 

 ruary, but is described as a greenhouse-plant by Lemaire and Planchon. It is 

 a freely-branching shrub, with bright green oblong-cordate leaves and smallish 



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BEGONIA ROSiEFLOKA. 



COBURGIA TRICHROMA. 



flowers, which are pleasingly mottled with bright pink, and bear some resem- 

 blance to the flowers of Abutilon striatum. 



Detidrobiiiin ciimulatum, Clustered-flowered Dendrobe (Bot. Mag., t. 5703). — 

 A pretty Moulmein species, the flowers of which are produced in sub-globose 

 corymbs at the nodes of the rachis : they are of a clear rosy-lilac color outside, 

 whitish inside, the pedicels deep purple. 



Raphistemtna ciliatum, Ciliated Raphistemma (Bot. Mag., t. 5704). — Ascle- 

 piadeas. A pretty, delicate climber, with elegant ovate-cordate leaves, and 

 corymbs of flowers of a pale greenish color, borne on long filiform reddish 

 pedicels. 



Opiintia Rafinesquiana, Hardy Indian Fig. — Cactaceae. This interesting 

 plant is a native of the Valley of the Mississippi, where it inhabits dry, sunny 

 plains. It is the hardiest known species in the whole of the cactaceous order, 

 and admirably adapted for cultivation in English gardens, where it will with- 



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