Rare and interesting Plants, 489 



Loddiges], for the first time, in February and March, 1833. The flowers 



are exceedingly beautiful in form and colour : they remained several days 



in perfection. We have found this plant to thrive best in a small pot of 



moss, kept moist, and suspended from a rafter in the stove. It makes many 



branches, with numerous little roots pushing out in all directions." (^Bot, 



Cab., June.) 



CCXLI. ScitaminecE, 



11. CO'STUS. 



p'lctus D. .Z)ore variegated-j?M)(^. £ [23 or 1§ au Y.P Mexico 1830? D s.l Bot. reg. 1594 



" Introduced by seeds communicated to A. B. Lambert, Esq., by M. 

 Deppe, a zealous Prussian botanist, who has been engaged for several 

 years in prosecuting researches in natural history in Mexico. The plant 

 flowers more freely, and appears to be less tender, than the other species 

 at present cultivated in the garden." (Z). Don in Bot. Reg., June.) 



CCLXVII. Asphodelecs. 



8590a CALLIPRO^RA iM!(f/. (A'a/e, pretty, p>wa, a front, pretty face; its beauty.) 



Asphod^lecc, 6. 1. 

 lutea Lindl. yeWovf-Jlwd. tf A or | jl Y N. California 1831 ? O p Bot. reg. 1590 



Received, by the London Horticultural Society, from Mr. Douglas, as 

 " a new genus allied to Brodige^«." This view Dr. Lindley confirms ; and 

 farther states its approximation to, and the points of its distinctness from, 

 the genera Leucocoryne and Triteleia. Calliprora liitea proves to be a 

 hardy, very handsome, bulbous plant ; growing freely in a shaded peat bor- 

 der, and flowering in July. It is propagated by offsets, which it produces 

 pretty freely. No seeds have yet been ripened ; but it is expected that 

 they will be formed when the plants become stronger. The plant has 

 the appearance of an /I'llium. Its leaves are linear, sword-shaped, acu- 

 minate, canaliculate, of a full green colour, weak, longer than the scape, 

 which is upright and round. The yellov/ flowers are umbelled, and, by the 

 umbel depicted, consist of fifteen flowers ,• each segment of the perianth is 

 externally marked up its middle with brown purple. (Bot. Reg., June.) 



CCXLIX. Smildcece. 



1118. TRI'LLIUM 9146 er^ctum [3250 



3 viridiflbrum i/boA. pale gveen-fiwd. A A or i ap.my Pa.G Canada 1805. D s.p Bot. mag. 

 pi^ndulum W., Hort. Brit. 9149. 



" It is quite unnecessary to enter into a full description of this variet}', 

 which only differs from a [Bot. Mag. 470., Hort. Brit. 9146.] in the differ- 

 ently coloured petals; and from ^ [Bot. Mag. 1027., Hort. Brit. 9146. 

 var. 2.] in the same particular, and in the broader petals." (Bot. Mag., 

 July.) 



Art. IV. A Selection of the rare and interesting Plants tvhich 

 jiovoered in the Epsom Nursery from March to July, 1833- 



Dicotyledonous Plants. 



^anunculaceceTi&Q.. Aquilegia (Toiirn.) canadensis L. 13 lutea Nuttall. 

 — ZJelphinium (Town.') cheilanthum Fiscli. ;8 flore pleno Penny. The 

 type of this species is decidedly the finest of the perennial species : it is 

 also rare. The variety is a splendid seminal production ; which originated, 

 I believe, near Manchester, where it is designated D. BarlowM. Flowers 

 blue. In rich loamy soil it will attain the height of 4 ft. or 5 ft. — D. al- 

 taicum Penny ined. A gigantic and very handsome perennial species, with 

 blue flowers. It attains to the height of from 8 ft. to 10 ft. — Pseonia 

 (L.) officinalis Retz. var. «nemonifl6ra Hootc. Hot. Mag. t, 3168., edulis 

 Sat. var. Pottsii Sabine, Bot. Reg. t. 1436. 



VapaverdcecB Juss. Glaucium (Tourn.) tricolor Penny. A biennial 

 with red flowers, and a velvet spot at the base of each petal. 



