24 Notices of new and interesting Plants. 



CCXLVII. Aspkodilees. 



.EULBPNE semibarbata. " The 6tamens are not bearded in the outer filaments only, but all of them are 

 furnished with a dense tuft of hairs above the middle." {Bot. Mag. 3129.) 



Hyacinths forced in pots of soil or water-glasses are now usual in the rooms or windows of those who 

 love flowers (and who does not ?), and can afford to possess and keep them. I,achen;u7« pendula and 

 quadricolor are in blossom at Messrs. Young's, the former very vigorously. A'\oi alboeincta and Bul- 

 bine latifblia are in bloom with Mr. Haworth ; and so is a species of A'\oe at Dennis's. Dracaena ter- 

 minalis, as it is usually called, but which Mr. Riath has an impression has another and more accurate 

 name on the Continent, is blooming in one of Colvill's stoves : its main beaury, however, is in its bril- 

 liant party-coloured foliage. Leucocuryne (Brodiaj\i) ixi&ldes is flowering rather finely at Knight's ; its 

 lilac blossoms are quite ornamental. 



Forced Van Thol tulips {Tulipa suaveolens) are now (Jan. 24.) in supply with the dealers in forced 

 flowers. 



CCXLVIII. Gi/liesitae. 

 GILLIE^SiM graminea. A very curious plant, whose flower at first sight greatly resembles that 

 of an orchideous plant, and is certainly a most complex and puzzling production : the root is a kind 

 of long bulb. {Bot. Cab. 1755.) 



CCU. Xaliacece. 



il'LIUM Mtlrtagon. " The most striking beauty, when frequently presented to the eye, loses its 

 power.of engaging our attention. Were this not the fact, the peculiar elegance of the iilium Mart agon 

 would continue an object of admiration to every individual of cultivated mankind. Its stately upright 

 pillar, decked above like an Eastern pagoda, and ornamented below by whorls of uniform foliage, ren- 

 der it a profitable subject of contemplation for the artist, whose taste should be founded en beauty. 

 This quality is never sought for in vain amongst the productions of nature." {Bot. Gard.o3i., Nov. 

 1831.) 



1017. TU^LIPA. 



8431n Bonaroti(>«a Bert. Bonarota's tf A or 1^ ap.my R.Va Italy 1827 ? O co Sw.fl.gar.2.s.ll6 



The bulbs of this, of T. strangulata, and other kinds, were received from abroad, by the Apothecaries' 



Company, as the bulbs of the medicinal colchicum. 7'. BonaroUdna has its stem and foliage pubescent, 



and its flowers " campanulately spreading; when in bloom, of an exquisite faint scent; inside, of a vivid 



brick colour ; outside, of a very pale yellow, marked with red." It is easy of culture. 



strangulata ... ... } A or 1^ ap ... ... O co Sw.Jl.gar.S.s.116 



CCLIII. Restiacete. 

 293. ERIOCAU'LON. 



decangulare L. ten-angled ^ A cu 2ijl.au W N. Amer. 1826. D bog Bot. mag. 3126 

 A cross section of the 10 or 12-angled stem of this plant is a very pretty object. The leaves are grass- 

 like, and " compactly cellular ;" and I notice the latter for the sake of remarking, that dried specimens 

 of the British E. septangulare, held against the light, are extremely elegant objects, from the 

 beautiful arrangement of cells which the leaves exhibit. In E. decangulare, the head of flowers is 

 nearly three quarters of an inch in diameter, forming a depressed globe, nearly hemispherical, and 

 woolly. 



Besides the plants noticed as flowering in the winter season under the orders formally exhibited above, it 

 may be here noticed that in Crucifera?, Cheiranthus mutabilis is interesting in the Chelsea Garden ; in Caly- 

 canthese, Chimonanthus fragrans at Young's, and wherever kept ; the C. fragrans var. grandiflbrus of the Hor. 

 ticultural Society's Garden has yellower blossoms than the fragrans itself. In 1 licinea?, the common holly in 

 large trees, as in Kensington Garden, with its glossy leaves and berries red, is a beautiful ornament of the 

 season ; the varieties, with variegated leaves too, contrasting with the dark green of the yew and other ever- 

 greens, are highly estimable. In Cacteae, Epiphyllum truncatum displays its flowers, of rose and scarlet 

 mingled, from Christmas to the middle of January. In il/yrtaceas, Leptospermum baccatum, white; and Cal- 

 listemon lanceolatus, scarlet, are in bloom at Colvill's. In Ternstrcemzac<»i-f , the camellias are becoming splen- 

 did; the fringed white was highly admirable at Knight's early in January, and later at Colvill's : other kinds 

 at both places, especially at Colvill's, where they seem to be kept at a higher temperature, are very splendid. 

 At Colvill's a seedling raised there is now blooming: it is in the style of Gray's invincible, but, Mr. Riath 

 Temarks, is of a deeper colour, and has a larger bud and blossom, in Thymelta?, Daphne oddra, forced, is 

 blooming at Colvill's; and in the green-house Gnidia laevigata, simplex, and imberbis; the last two are, I 

 believe, fragrant by night. Gnidia pinifblia is blooming lovelily, with heads of snow-white blossoms, at 

 Young's. In /ihamneae, Phylica ericciides at Young's (this plant has fragrant flowers), and Pomaderris discolor, 

 there also, will blossom in about ten days. In Goodenbvza?, Lechenaultta formosa is blooming in various 

 places; and in iJuphorbz'dc&t, Xylophyik latifblia lately, at the Comte de Vandes's, had the leaflets of its 

 pinnate leaves bedecked with fringing flowers. In Epacridese, at Young's, are blooming Sprengel/a incarnata ; 

 and Stypheha longifblia, its blossoms tubular and yellow-green. E pacris paludbsa will blossom in a week ; 

 and from Mr. Penny the following systematic fact was learned :^-E'pacris diosmajfi.lia of Loddiges's Botanical 

 Cabinet is E. obtusilblia Brown." In Cinchomucea:, in Colvill's stove, BurcheilzVi capensis displays its tubular 

 scarlet blossoms. In flutacea?, CorraVz alba speciosa, pulchella, and virens, are in the middle of January uni. 

 formly blooming, wherever kept, and are most lovely : C. alba almost hardv in I he open garden at Dennis's. 

 Borbnzn pmnata is blooming at Colvill's ; and B, denticulata at Young's : what beautiful objects beneath the 



bryanthemum aureum and rubricate are blooming in a frame at the Chelsea Garden. In Begowacea:. Bcgbn/a 

 semperflbrens, white, is flowering at Young's, and another species, far more beautiful, with rosy blossoms In 

 Olemas, forced lilacs are flowering at Colvill's ; and in Mvop6rina?, Stenochilus viscbius both at Young's and 

 the Comte de Vandes's. In ^canthaceae, the following have been found in bloom : — Ruellw anisopbylla, of 



