210 FloricuUund and Botanical Notices 



large and loose; flowers medium size. This, though a 

 good variety, is rather the most indifferent of the ten sorts. 



70. — This is an exquisite flower. The petals are all 

 large and very broad, the flowers forming a complete cir- 

 cle. Lower petals pure flesh color ; upper ones with a 

 small bright carmine spot, the pencilling from the eye very 

 distinct, but ending abruptly, showing a broad edge of the 

 same sliade of the lower petals. Truss moderately com- 

 pact and largo ; flowers very large. Judging from a single 

 truss, we should place a high estimate upon the properties 

 of this variety. 



72. — Lower petals very pale purplish pink; the upper 

 ones with distinct and beautiful pencilling, running through 

 a rich violet purple spot. Trusses compact ; petals smooth, 

 and flowers large. A very superb variety. 



3S. — Ground color of the whole flower clear flesh color ; 

 upper petals spotted with deep crimson with darker pencil- 

 ling. Truss large and compact ; petals quite smooth and 

 flowers of good size ; in general appearance somewhat 

 resembling Victory. It is a very beautiful variety. 



47. — Similar to No. 32. The color of the lower petals of 

 a brighter pink, and the spot on the upper ones little broader. 

 Flower of large size, petals smooth and the truss compact. 

 Very fine. 



Several other seedlings were exhibited, which we may at 

 another opportunity describe; but these were ten of the 

 handsomest and most desirable varieties. 



Melastomdcecc. 



CENTRADE'NIA O. Don (From kcntron, a spoar, and aden, a gland.) 



r63ea Lindl. Rose colored Centradenin. A greenhoupe plant ; growing tlireo feet high ; 

 witli flesh-colored flowers ; appearing in February and Marcii ; a native of Mexico ; propa- 

 gated by cuttings ; grown in sandy peat. Bot. Keg. 1843, t. 20. 



A pretty greenhouse plant, forming "a deep green bush, 

 studded all over with gay flesh-colored stars." The leaves 

 are ovate-lanceolate and the flowers appear in sub-corymbose 

 racemes. Introduced from Mexico by Messrs. Lucombe, 

 Prince & Co. It is soft-wooded, half-shrubby plant, and 

 may be freely grown in sandy peat : placing it in a sunny 

 situation. The cuttings root readily in sand. {^Bot. Reg., 

 April.) 



LeguminbscB. 



INDIGO'FERA 



stachjodes Lindl. Long-spiked Indigo. A greenhouse shrub; growing two feet high; 

 with reil flowers ; appearing all summer ; a native of India ; propagated by cuttings ; grown 

 in candy loam and leaf mould. Bot. Reg. 1843, t. )4. 



