Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 79 



189. CuRcu^MA RoscoEA^NA WalUcli. Mr. Roscoe's Cur- 



cuma. (ScitaminecB.) Asia. 



A greenhmiae or stove plant ; growins two to three feet lii^h ; with yellnw flowers ; appearing 

 in July ; cnhivated in leaf-mould, peat and sand ; inci eased by divisions of the roots. Hot. Mag., 

 1852, pi 46tiT. 



This is a very showy species of this singular genus, whose 

 beauty is derived from the long and dense spikes of flowers, 

 of no great beauty in themselves, but, being surrounded by 

 spreading tubular bractes^ of a brilliant orange scarlet, have a 

 very striking appearance. It was sent to England by Dr. 

 Wallich, and first flowered at Syon House. It is there 

 treated as a stove plant, but in our warmer climate it would 

 undoubtedly bloom freely treated as a warm greenhouse plant, 

 — blooming in July or August. {Bat. Mag., Sept.) 



190. Mecono'psis Walli'chii Wallich. Dr. Wallich's 

 Meconopsis. [Vapaveracea.) Sikkim Himalaya. 



A greenhouse or frame plant ; growing two to three feet ; with blue flowers ; appearing in 

 June; srowu in any good light suil ; increased by seeds and division of the roots. Bot. Mag., 

 1852, pi. 4668. 



A very handsome plant found by Dr. Hooker, in Sikkim 

 Himalaya, who sent home seeds to Kew, where it flowered 

 last year. It is a poppy-looking plant, with a sub-glaucous 

 green foliage, and large, pale blue flowers, which are drooping 

 on the ends of the tall stems. At Kew, it was grown and 

 flowered in a pot in a frame, and undoubtedly with us will 

 be a half-hardy plant, — perhaps quite hardy. Its very large 

 blue flowers will be conspicuous objects wherever grown. 

 {Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



191. Brya Ebe^nus Dccand. Jamaica Ebony. {Legunii- 



nosece. ) Jamaica. 



a hothouse plant ; growing five or six feet high ; with orange-colored flowers ; appearing in 

 ipring ; grown in loam and leaf-mould ; increased by cuttings. Bot. Mag.. 1852, pi. 4670. 



A well known West India shrub, or small tree, but little 

 seen in cultivation. Grown in a warm stove, it " maintains a 

 shrubby character for a very great number of years, with pretty, 

 evergreen, box-like foliage, bearing copious, bright orange, 

 pea-shaped flowers, in the month of May, yielding a delicious 

 perfume." It inhabits the savannas and dry hills of Jamaica, 



