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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
DECEMBER AND JANUARY. 
Achime'nes pi'cta. This splendid plant, introduced from Mexico by the Horticultural 
Society, is " amongst the greatest ornaments of our stoves during the autumnal and early winter 
months. Nothing can exceed the beauty of the foliage, whether we consider the velvety and 
orange hue of the pubescence, or the rich deep green of the ground-work. Nor are the flowers 
wanting in charms ; they are copious though solitary, from the axils of all the upper leaves, 
yellow, gorgeously tinged and spotted with red." Sir William Hooker thinks it rather referable 
to Gesnera than to Achimenes ; he says, " In habit it is surely closely allied to Gesnera 
Zebrina." (Although the flowers are often solitary, it is but just to add, that under superior 
management they are generally produced four and five from the axilla of each of the upper leaves, 
and we have seen as many as seven and eight together on a plant, grown by Mr, Green, gardener 
to Sir E. Antrobus, at Cheam. It is, in fact, a most profuse blooming plant.) Bot. Mag., 4126. 
Anemo v ne obtusilo v ba. A pretty Indian alpine herbaceous plant with white flowers, identical 
with the A. Goveniana, of Dr. Wallich, and nearly allied to A. narcissiflora, from which it differs 
in its longer flower-stalks, and the less prominent divisions of the leaf. "The native situation of 
the species is stated by Dr. Royle to be the Choor mountain of the Himalayas, at elevations of 
from 10,000 to 12,000 feet, flowering in May." It is perfectly hardy, growing about six inches 
high, and well adapted for pot-culture, or a shady or damp situation on rock-work. It is easily 
increased by seeds, and flowers in June and July. The plants in this country were reared at the 
Horticultural Society's Garden from seeds presented by the Directors of the East India 
Company. Bot. Reg., 65. 
Angulo v a clo'wesii. Collected in Columbia by Linden, in 1842, and first flowered in Europe 
by the Rev. J. Clowes, of Broughton Hall, Manchester, in March, 1844. The flower scapes 
support but a single blossom each ; as many, however, as four or five are sometimes emitted from 
one pseudo-bulb. " The main difference between Anguloa and Lycaste consists in this, that in 
Lycaste the lateral sepals are placed edge to edge, in the manner of a true Maxillaria, but in 
Anguloa they overlap each other considerably ; this peculiarity causes a striking difference in the 
appearance of the flowers of the two genera, and, in fact, gives that of Anguloa the look of a 
Mormodes." Bot. Reg., 63, 
Arme x ria cephalo v tes. In the plant figured under this name we find the Statice pseudo- 
armeria, published in our last year's volume. It appears that, besides these two names, it has 
also been enumerated by different botanical writers as A. latifolia, S. cephalotes, and S. armeria 
major. Sir W. J. Hooker observes that though, perhaps, long lost to our collections, it was 
originally introduced to the Kew Gardens in 1775 by Nicholas de Jacquin ; "and was probably, 
previous to that time, detected at Algarbia, in Portugal, by Masson, while collecting for his 
Majesty George the Third. It seems to be a native of several parts of the coast of Portugal, 
and also, according to Des Fontaines, of Barbary also." Bot. Mag. s 4128. 
Backho'usia myrtifo v lia. "This very pretty greenhouse shrub, its conspicuous petal oid 
calycine segments giving the idea at first sight of large corollas to the flowers, was found by Mr. 
James Backhouse in the Illawara district of New South Wales ; and not being referable to any 
myrtaceous genus yet described," adds Sir W. Hooker, " Mr. Harvey and myself are anxious to 
dedicate it to our mutual friend now mentioned, who, amidst his various and arduous labours of 
love, during a voyage to, and journeyings in, the various parts of Australia and South Africa, 
still found leisure to collect and to describe in manuscript many interesting plants, which his pre- 
vious botanical acquirements enabled him to do with judgment. The greater number of these 
specimens are placed partly in the hands of Mr. Brown, and partly in those of the editor of this 
work. Less perfect specimens of the same plant were detected by Mr. Allan Cunningham, in a 
state of bud only, ' South of the Colony ' of New South Wales, and marked, ' allied to Eugenia 
elliptica ; ' and what confirms the stability of the genus, is the discovery by Mr. Allan Cunningham 
of a second species (which exists in Mr. J. Smith's Herbarium) on the Hastings river. With 
