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The Botanical Magazine figures the following : — 

 Angr^cum citratum.— Orchid acese. A pretty 

 little stove epiphyte, consisting of a few oblong,lance- 

 olate leaves, forming a flattened tuft, and a slender 

 pendulous radical scape, bearing a many-flowered ra- 

 ceme 4 or 5 inches long, on which the small cream- 

 colored flowers all facing one way, are set in two rows, 

 one on each side the rachis; they have a spur twice as 

 long as the lip. Native of Madagascar. Flowered 

 by Messrs. Veitch & Sons. 



Barleria Gibsoni. — Acanthacese. A glabrous 

 stove shrub, of branched habit, with neat ovate or 

 oblong lanceolate leaves, sub- terminal flowers of 

 rather large size, nearly regular outline, and of a 

 pale purple color. It is described as being useful 

 for winter flowering. Native of India. Flowered 

 at Kew. 



Clavija fulgens. — Myrsinaeese. A beautiful 

 stove shrub, of erect habit, the single stem bearing 

 a crown of obcuneately spathulate leaves, a foot or 

 more in length ; from their axils, and growing so as 

 to be hidden by them, issue short racemes of very 

 handsome deep orange-red flowers. Supposed to be 

 of Peruvian origin. Flowered at Kew. 



Curcuma australasica.— Zingiberacese. A 

 rather ornamental stove herb, closely allied to the 

 common Turmeric. It has oblong lanceolate leaves, 

 and many-flowered spikes of yellow blossoms, the 

 lowers bracts subtending which are shorter, green, 

 and recurved, and the upper ones longer, more acute, 

 and rose-colored, forming a pretty crown to the 

 inflorescence. Native of Cape York, Northeast 

 Australia. Flowered by Messrs. Veitch k Sons. 



Heltanthemum ocymoides.— Cistaceae. A beau- 

 tiful hardy sub-shrub of dwarf habit, with linear 

 oblong leaves, and bright yellow flowers with a dark 

 eye. Native of Spain and Portugal. Flowered at 

 Kew. ' 'The beautiful genus to which this belongs, ' ' 

 observes Dr. Hooker, "was once a favorite in culti- 

 vation, but has of late given way before the rage 

 for bedding-out plants, which now monopolize the 

 once varied borders of English gardens. No less 

 than 70 species of Helianthemun, besides varieties, 

 are figured in Sweet's valuable book on the cultiva- 

 ted plants of the order, published in 1830, and, of 

 these a great number are now no longer to be found 

 in England. It is to be believed that the time will 

 yet come when the taste for really beautiful and inter- 

 esting plants will reign again, and replace the pre- 



sent passion for a blaze of gaudy colors along our 

 garden walks. ' ' 



Impatiens latifolia.— Balsaminaceae. A free- 

 flowering and free-growing stove plant, of erect 

 branched habit, 2 to 4 feet high, with fleshy stems, 

 ovate lanceolate serrated leaves, and large flat pale 

 purple flowers, somewhat resembling those of I. 

 platypetala. Native of India and Ceylon. Flow- 

 ered at Kew. 



Lamprococcus Weilbachii. — Brome'iaceae. — 

 Also called L. Laurentianus and ^chmea Weil- 

 bachii. It is pfseud-epiphytal stove herb, with ligu- 

 late leaves, and an erect scape bearing crimson 

 spathes and purple flowers, of not a very showy 

 character. Native of Brazil. Flowered in the 

 Copenhagen Garden. 



Mesospinidium sanguineum. — OrchidacejB. A 

 pretty cool stove epiphyte, with oval compressed 

 pseudobulbs, cuneate ligulate leaves, and secund 

 pendulous racemes, branched at the base, bearing 

 pretty moderate-sized, waxy, warm rosy-tinted flow- 

 ers. Native of the Peruvian and Quitensian Andes. 

 Introduced from Ecuador, and flowered by Messrs. 

 Veitch. 



Ehaphia t^digera. — Palmege. A graceful 

 Palm, with a tall erect cylindrical stem, and a crown 

 of stout arching pinnate fronds, having many pin- 

 nese, the fructification consisting of large cluster- 

 shaped spadices hanging from between the bases of 

 the fronds. Native of Brazil. Grown'by M. A . 

 Verschaffe' t. 



Tapeinotes Carolina.— Gesneraceae. A pretty 

 succulent-stemmed stove plant, with oblong lanceo- 

 late serrated leaves, of a shining bluish -green above 

 and bright red-purple beneath ; the flowers are 

 axillary Gloxinia-like, white, with the tube much 

 inflated and curved upwards. Native of Brazil. 

 Flowerd at Kew. 



Vriesia brachystachys. — Bromeliacese. A 

 stove perennial, with ligulate green leaves, and a 

 short distichous spike of yellow flowers issuing from 

 spreading carinate bracts, which are red at the base 

 and tipped with green. The scape also is colored 

 red. Native country not stated. Flowered in the 

 St. Petersburg Botanic Garden. 



DiSEMMA cocciNEA is aplantfrom New Holland, 

 nearly allied to Passiflora, and which has recently 

 bloomed in some American collections. The flowers 

 are scarlet, not so deep a color as Passiflora Kermesina 

 but about the same size. It flowers, in a cool green- 

 house, in March, April and May. 



