336 Floricidtnral and Botajiical Notices 



LABl'CHE.4 Paxt. 



bipunctita. Two-pointed leaved Labichea. A greenhouse plant; growing 2 feet higb; 

 with vellow flowers ; appearing in April; a native of Swan River; increased by cuttings ; 

 growii in leaf-mould and loam. Pax. Alag. Hot. Vol. X. p. 149. 



" A neat and rather showy shrub ;" growing 2 feet high ; 

 with yellow axillary flowers appearing in clusters, and, 

 from their number, forming short racemes of blossoms, 

 which appear near the tops of the young stems, and are 

 not terminal. The leaves are simple, narrowly oblong and 

 alternate, resembling some of the narrow-leaved acacias. 

 In cultivation, the plants require good soil and plenty of 

 pot-room ; they root readily from cuttings taken off" early, 

 and demand a light and airy place in the greenhouse. 

 {Pax. Mag. Bot, August.) 

 Vortulacea;. 



PORTUL'AC.\ 



splendens (Garden variety.) Splendid Portulaca. An annual plant ; growing 6 inches 

 high ; with white and crimson flowers ; increased by seeds. Bot. Reg. t. 34. 



This is the splendid annual which we have occasionally 

 noticed, and which lias now become quite common in our 

 gardens. Dr. Lindley states it is presumed to be a variety 

 of P. Thellusonu'. We first saw it in 1839, in the garden 

 of P. Mackenzie, Philadelphia, where a large patch of it 

 was flowering with dazzling beauty : it was then called P. 

 grandiflora, and seeds have been sold under this name, as 

 well as P. splendens. We purchased a plant of it at that 

 time, and have since then had an abundant bloom every 

 summer. It is one of the finest annuals cultivated in our 

 gardens, and from its easy growth, and the abundance of 

 its rich crimson and white flowers, forms, next to the ver- 

 bena, the most prominent object of the garden. The seeds 

 are readily procured, and if sown in a pot, and placed in a 

 frame or in a hot-bed, will come up well ; as soon as the 

 plants are of good size, they may be removed to the bor- 

 der, where they will flourish with the same treatment of 

 other plants. It flowered for the first time in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society in the autumn of 1842. P. 

 Thellusonu is of a more brilliant color, but the flowers are 

 not so large. {Bot. Reg., July.) 

 Ericdce<K. 



/iHODODE/NDRON 



frigrans Patl. Fragrant flowered Rose-bay. A greenhouse plant ; growing two feet 

 high ; with lilac flowers : appearing in May. A hybrid variety : increased by layers or graft- 

 ing : grown in loam and peat. Pax. Mag. Bot. Vol. X. 147. 



A fragrant and pretty variety of the i^hododendron, 

 supposed to have been raised between the R. cataubiense, 



