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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Ruellia lilacina. Presented by Mr. Glendhming to the Botanic Gardens at Kew, where it 
receives stove culture. Nothing is known of its native country. " Its fine dark and glossy 
foliage, with large full lilac flowers, which are produced from time to time during the greater 
part of the summer months, renders it well worthy of a place in the hot-house." At Kew it forms 
a branching shrub between two and three feet high, with ovate, bluntly acuminate leaves, and 
axillary flowers, consisting of a long curved funnel-shaped tube, and a spreading five-cleft limb of 
a purple lilac colour, and traversed with veins. Bot. Mag., 4147. 
Spathogloitis Fortuni. " One of the first plants which Mr. Fortune met with, on the 
granitic mountains of Hong Kong, was this pretty little Bletia-like plant. Some corms which he 
sent home in his first despatch to the Chiswick Garden, produced flowers, which lasted for 
upwards of a month." Like the Bletias, it has thin plaited leaves, and fleshy tubers or corms, 
which lie dormant for some months after the foliage has disappeared. The genus, indeed, differs 
from Bletia principally in having the middle lobe of the lip stalked, with some deep plates at the 
base, and in its anther having but two cells instead of eight. The flowers are produced near the 
summit of a scape, about a foot or eighteen inches long, and are of a pretty yellow colour, the 
interior portion of the side lobes of the lip being spotted with brownish crimson. The sepals and 
petals are broad, and spread out equally, forming with the lip a very compact flower. It appears 
that the genus contains three other species very similar to this in their general appearance and 
yellow flowers — S. pubescens from the Sylhet mountains, at Prome, and on the Avan mountain 
called Tong Dong ; another from the Khoseea-hills, which Dr. Lindley calls S. parviflora, and 
the third, called S. tomentosa by the same botanist, was gathered by Mr. Cuming on Mindanao, 
in the province of Miscamis, with as many as twenty flowers in a raceme. " If any are possessors 
of a Manilla Spathoglottis resembling »S. plicata or Paxtonia rosea in herbage, they would 
do well to take care of it, for it may be this S. tomentosa, which seems to be really a fine thing." 
Bot. Reg., 19. 
Whitfie v ldia lateri'tia. A fine Acanth, with brick-coloured flowers opening in the winter 
months. It has copious evergreen foliage, and makes a desirable stove plant. Blossoms have 
been produced abundantly on plants at Knowsley and Kew. Bot. Mag., 4155. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Came'llia japo'nica, var. Low's Jubilee. We notice this new seedling chiefly on account 
of the enormous size of the flowers — in this respect they rival those of C. reticulata (being/ull 
five inches in diameter), and excel it in the form, arrangement, and number of the petals, which 
are tinted with a fine, delicate blush-pink,and, for the most part, have a small streak of a deeper 
hue down the middle. It was raised and flowered in Mr. Low's nursery at Clapton. Among 
other seedlings flowering in the same collection, there is one of considerable merit, remarkable 
for its broad leaves, and their very prominent venations. It is called " centifolia " (Low's), in 
allusion to the resemblance of its rosy-crimson flowers to the cabbage-rose. 
Erioste'mon intermedium. Messrs. Henderson have a small plant flowering in a green- 
house at the Pine-apple Place Nursery, which was received some time ago from the Continent 
with the name here applied. It is a stout-growing plant, with handsome, oblong, lance-shaped 
foliage, and large pale blush-coloured blossoms. The habit is intermediate between 
E. cuspidatum and E. buxifolium, inclining more to the latter. 
Fu'chsia serratifo'lia. A newly introduced species of great beauty, with long, tubular 
flowers, of a shaded carmine hue, the points of the calyx divisions of a very bright grass green, 
and the corolla consisting of rich scarlet petals. The blossoms are axillary. In habit it appears 
to be a rather stout plant ; the leaves are large, obovate, with a drawn out point, and a satiny- 
looking surface. Messrs. Veitch and Sons received it from their collector at Muna in Peru. 
Porphyroco'me lanceola v ta. At the first April meeting of the Horticultural Society, a new 
plant, sent from the Kew Gardens, was exhibited under this title. It is evidently closely related 
to Aphelandra, and is a very pretty stove shrub, with long, drooping leaves, and pale violet 
blossoms emerging from a terminal spicate cluster of crisped reddish-coloured bracts. 
