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leaves, is very like the well-known Wistaria Sinensis in the individual blossoms, and as 

 they appear collectively in the pendulous racemes. It flowered in 1880 in the temperate 

 house at Kew. Shelter under glass, with a little warmth in severe winter weather, will 

 most likely be required to preserve it in health. The flowers are bright purple. 



A tall evergreen climber, with dark green glossy foliage, and bears a profusion of panicled racemes of purple 

 flowers. Leaves eight to twelve inches long, with three to seven pairs and an odd one ; petiole and rachis 

 slender ; leaflets shortly petiolate, oblong or elliptic, subacute or shortly acuminate ; dark green on both surfaces, 

 glossy above. Racemes pendulous, slender, panicled, four to eight inches long, rachis pubescent ; flowers numerous, 

 two-thirds of an inch in diameter, purple, except back of standard, which is nearly white ; pedicels short, slender. 

 Calyx short, base hemispheric ; lips subequal, upper truncate, lower trifid. Standard orbicular, limb emarginate, 

 thickened at base. Wings subacute, bases auricled. Keel obtuse. Upper stamens free. Ovary many-ovuled. 

 Pod four inches long, few-seeded, valves woody. Saeds broad, thick, two-thirds of an inch in diameter, testate, 

 brown, hilum elongated. — Botanical Magazine, 6541. 



Phaius tuberculosus. JBl. This is, no doubt, one of the most beautiful of all 

 Orchids introduced of late years, and far the handsomest of the genus that has yet 

 bloomed. When it was exhibited by its fortunate owner, Sir Trevor Lawrence, before 

 the Floral Committee at South Kensington, it was voted a First Class Certificate by 

 acclamation. . Its indescribable beauty. Avould recommend it to all who appreciate a 

 beautiful flower, whether Orchid growers or not. Said to come from Madagascar. 



Sepals and petals stellate, of a pure white colour ; an exceedingly fine lip, with Avide yellowish lateral lobes, 

 covered with brown blotches, on an anterior obcordate wavy middle lacinise, white, with mauve marginal spots. 

 Three callous orange places with numerous impressions stand in the centre, directed towards a tuft of light 

 sulphur-coloured capitate hairs. Column white, tintel with light purple' in front.— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., 

 vol. xv., p. 428. 



Begonia Lygramii. llenfrey. A handsome garden hybrid, with loose drooping 

 clusters of pale pink flowers. Requires a stove. 



Said to have been raised by Mr. Ingram, of Frogmore, between B. fuchsioides and B. nitida. The leaves are four 

 inches long, very oblique, half heart-shaped, dark glossy green, slightly ciliate and crenelled ; the under side is green 

 also. The male flower* have four decussating sepals, of which the inner are smaller ; the females have five nearly 

 equal sepals. — &a,rd, Mag. of Bot., U., p. 153. The placentation is that of Diploclinium. 



Spathodea. L2EYIS. Valisot de Beauvois. A hothouse tree from Sierra Leone, belonging 

 to the order of Bignoniads. Flowers handsome, white streaked with rose. Introduced by 

 Messrs. Lucombe and Co. Blossoms in June. (Fig. 97.) 



Imperfect as are the figures and description of Spathodea hevis in Palisot de Beauvois, I am yet of opinion I am 

 correct in referring to this plant. If by the term " hevis" applied to the species it is meant that there are no glands 

 on the calyx or corolla, I may observe that however obscure on the dried specimens 

 (from which M. de Beauvois' drawing and character were derived), they are apparent 

 enough on the living plant. Our specimen is sixteen feet high ; but it flowers when much 

 smaller. Its stem is woody but soft. The leaves are alternate, except those below the 

 inflorescence, which are often in whorls of three, all of them unequally pinnate, with from 

 four to six pair of opposite, ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrated, glabrous, sessile leaflets. 

 Panicle terminal, corymbose, with numerous large flowers. Calyx 

 green, tipped with red, split open more than half way down on one 

 side, with several dark-coloured glands near the base, irregularly 

 toothed at the apex. Corolla campanulato-infundibuliform, white, 

 delicately spotted and streaked with rose ; tube widening upwards ; 

 limb obscurely two-lipped ; upper lip of two rounded lobes ; lower 

 of three similar ones, but larger and more spreading ; all slightly 

 waved. This is a tropical tree of robust growth, requiring the tempera ture of the stove, and growing freely in light loam. 

 It is propagated by cuttings planted under a bell-glass in white sand, and plunged in bottom-heat. — Bot. Mag., t. 4537. 



