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was then plunged to the rim in an 8-inch pot, and the plant trained to a flat 

 trellis. It has been a sheet of blue for the last two months. The foliage is 

 small like T. trieolorum; the flowers are large, its petals nfore spreading. It 

 is essential in a collection of Tropceolums. 



Eriostemon buxifolius. — Who that has seen an European collection of 

 Cape or Australian plants, does not know this, there, old and beautiful plant? 

 I should think that it must have been formerly introduced into our collec- 

 tions. Our plant was introduced last fall by Mr. Cope, from Messrs. Lee, of 

 London. Though the waxy white flowers are not so pretty individually as 

 some of the newer kinds, yet taken collectively and together with its box-. 

 like foliage, it is unsurpassed. My plant is in a mixture of peat and loam y 

 was kept in a shady part of the greenhouse during the summer and fall, and 

 grows like a willow — so luxuriant indeed as to prevent its flowering with that 

 freedom I know it to be capable of. 



Hypocyrta strigillosa, — A Gesneraceous plant, between a Columne® 

 and a Nematanthus, It is more w r oody than either of them, and does not 

 seem to grow higher than a foot or so, forming a bushy shrub. The leaves 

 are about an inch in length, and so covered with fine hairs as to give them & 

 peculiar grey appearance; they are thickly set on the branches, and bear & 

 scarlet sessile flower in their axils. Our plant was received last spring fromi 

 Messrs. Hovey, and being small, produced a few flowers in the fall. This 

 plant kept but slightly flowering in a warm greenhouse, is now showing flow- 

 er abundantly, while another kept growing strongly in a high stove heat is 

 but just showing its flower buds. It seems to be a plant which by manage- 

 ment may be had always in bloom ; and, as a small growing, neat flowering 

 plant, will, I have no doubt, get an "extensive circulation," 



Ixora incarnata. — Since writing the notice of this plant I have flowered 

 the I. rosea of the Philadelphia collections, and find them identical. Can 

 any one inform us whether there is a distinct I\ rosea? 



Thos. Meehajt, 



Templetonia glauna. — A Leguminous plant, in bloom at Mr. Knorr's, W« 

 Philadelphia, from New Holland, with obovate glaucous leaves, and red flow- 

 ers of the papilionaceous shape peculiar to the order. It was imported last 

 spring from Mr. Van Houtte, of Ghent. It is free flowering, and a decided 

 acquisition to the greenhouse. Sandy loam and peat seem to suit it well. 



Epacris Atleeana, one of the best varieties of this favorite genus, with a 

 long white flower, shaded with pink at the base of the tube. 



Several new Azaleas were in bloom, among them were Exquisita, Prince 

 Albert, Striata, Formosa, and others. They were received last fall from 

 Messrs. Low, of Clapton, and Van Houtte. 



