176 Notices of new and beautiful Plants, 



occupying the centre of the flower, we have a long graceful curved 

 crimson tube, terminated by a brush of bright yellow anthers, 

 which surround five little crimson velvet cushions of stigmas." 



W ehave no doubt but that many will admire this species much 

 more than the double varieties ; but the generality of lovers of flow- 

 ers will prefer the latter. In China this species grows spontane- 

 ously, and is employed for many purposes. In Cochin-China, it is 

 so common as to be used for garden hedges. • (^Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



AristolochidceiB. 



.^RISTOLO'CHFA. 



fCB' tens Livdl. Slinking Birthwort. A stove plant; with large showy flowers, of a variegated 

 purple and dirty yellow; appearing in June ; a native of the West Indies; propagated easily 

 by cuttings. Bot. Reg., 18-34. 



A singular plant, with flowers of a large size, which " are beau- 

 tifully variegated with purple and dirty yellow ; they have a most 

 disagreeable, disgusting smell, which will prevent the plant from 

 becoming common." The species is nearly allied to A. grandiflo- 

 ra, from which it is distinguished by the smooth tube of its calyx, 

 he. Introduced from the West Indies, where it is a native, by 

 Mrs. Marryatt, in whose stove it flowered in June, 1835. (Bot. 

 Reg., Jan.) 



ThymelacecR. 



PIMELE'A 



iiguslrina R. Brown Pr'iveX-leaved Pinielea. A green-house plant, growing four or five feet 

 high; with delicate white flowers; appearing in March and April ; a native of Van Dieman's 

 Land ; propagated by cuttings. Bot. Reg., 1827. 



" A neat species" of this pretty genus, " found from Van Die- 

 man's Land to Port Jackson, and growing in its native places as 

 much as ten feet high." The flowers are of a very delicate white. 

 Leaves ovate, veined, pubescent, much resembling the common 

 Prim, or privet, from which its specific name is taken. It flower- 

 ed in the nursery of Mr. Lowe, Clapton, in March, 1834. It 

 grows freely in a well ventilated green-house, and is easily increased 

 by cuttings. (Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



We have now in bloom Pimelea rosea ; it is a most charming 

 species; although we raised the plants from seed, last season, they 

 are all now in bloom, some of them not more than six inches in 

 heio-ht. We have never seen it in collections in this vicinity, and 

 suspect it has now flowered for the first time. P. decussata is 

 also a fine species, which, together with rosea, should be in every 

 good collection of plants. They grow freely in a mixture of 

 sandy loam and peat. 



Firicdcea. 



iJHODODE'NDRON. 



We have now in flower iJ. catawbiense, maximum, p6nticum,and 

 arboreum hybridum. Of the latter, we have had many plants in 

 bloom, and have several which have not yet opened their buds. 

 But two out of those which have flowered, were alike. Can they 



