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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Gompholo'bium barbi'gerum. A beautiful New Holland plant, introduced by Messrs. 
Lueombe and Pince, with whom it produced its large yellow pea-formed flowers last April. It is 
apparently a moderate sized shrub, with twiggy, erect, angular branches, and rather broadly 
linear, pointed, ternate leaves. Bot. Mag., 4171. 
Pris imbrtca'ta. " This is a very showy perennial, which, most probably, will prove quite 
hardy in the open border, if planted in a rich sandy loam and warm situation. It is increased 
by dividing the old plants any time from October to March, and flowers about the end of May." 
It has bloomed with the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Manchester, in the gardens at 
Spofforth. " It is probably a mere variety of J", squalens ; from which it differs in its pure 
lemon-coloured flowers, and in the imbricated short blunt convex bracts which invest their 
base." Bot. Reg., 35. 
Leia'nthus longifo'lius. "A rare plant in our gardens. It was introduced, however, to 
Kew, as early as 1793, by Capt. Bligh, of H. M. S. Providence, and then lost to our collections 
till 1825." Again it seems to have been wanting till 1844, when plants, reared from seeds trans- 
mitted by Mr. Purdie, flowered in the Duke of Northumberland's collection at Syon. It is a 
suffruticose stove plant, growing two or three feet high, with downy lanceolate leaves and 
pendent funnel-shaped yellow flowers. Taschia longifolia is a synonyme. Bot. Mag. 4169. 
Odontoglo'ssum cervante'sii. One of the most lovely of Orchids, imported from Oaxaca, and 
recently flowered by the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. " It is No. 1613 of their catalogue, and 
in the way of the well-known O. Rossii ; but its large thin delicately-pink flowers, banded with 
crimson near the centre, are in all respects much handsomer." Bot. Reg. 36. [This is one of 
the new species noticed at p. 118 ; the other mentioned at the same place is O. membranacea.] 
Onci'dium spilq'pterum. This name was given some time ago by Dr. Lindley, and the plant has 
since been figured in the Ghent Annals by Prof. Morren of Liege, who states that it comes from 
Mexico. Messrs. Loddiges' statement of Brazil being its habitat was made on the authority of 
a correspondent. It is a handsome species, " naturally standing near O. reflejcum and the 
Mexican species allied to it. Its flowers are large and yellow, with small brownish purple sepals 
and petals ; the base of the labellum is the same colour ; while the wings of the column are clear 
yellow, spotted with crimson." The flowers grow in an erect spike longer than the leaves. Bot. 
Reg. 40. [This plant was noticed as a new species at vol. xi., p. 190. It is again flowering in 
the Hackney collection.] 
Ornitho'galum na'num. Dr. Lindley says this is not, as Bieberstein suggests, an early 
variety of O. umbellatum, but " really very distinct from any of the genus otherwise in cultivation ; 
its stiff naiTOw leaves, and short-stalked dwarf corymbs, offering characters not to be mistaken." 
It has flowered at Spofforth, " and is said to have been gathered in marshy meadows at Berbeck, 
near Constantinople. According to Sibthorp, it occurs in dry hills in Arcadia, and about Abydos." 
It is a hardy bulb, flowering in March. Bot. Reg. 39. 
Phylla'rthron bojeria v num. " A remarkable genus of Madagascar, and some neighbouring 
islands, allied to Colea, and named Arthrophyllum (from arthros, a joint, and phyllon, a leaf) by 
Bojer, under a belief that the leaves themselves were jointed, or at least that the solitary leaflet 
was articulated upon the leaf-stalk." De Candolle is disposed to consider it an articulated 
petiole without any leaf. Blume having previously bestowed the name Arthrophyllum upon 
another plant, De Candolle applied the present, which is merely a transposition of the same 
roots. It was imported to Kew from Mauritius, and flowered there last August. It is a small 
shrub, with compressed branches, and bi-articulate leaf-like petioles, the upper joint of which is 
elliptical, and the lower wedge-shaped. The flowers are funnel-shaped, rose-coloured, and few in 
number, disposed in a compound axillary raceme. Bot. Mag., 4173. 
Rhu's diversilo'ba. A deciduous Calif ornian shrub, introduced by R. B. Hinds, Esq., and 
allied to the common Poison Oak, R. Toxicodendron. It is called " Yeara " by the country 
people, who say that it poisons by contact, or even through the air. Mr. Hinds says that the 
bush was common everywhere in California, but that he never witnessed any bad effects from it. 
It flowers in June, and seems to be perfectly hardy. Bot. Reg., 38. 
Streli'tzia augu'sta. A stove plant from South Africa. Anteniqua Land, about the neigh- 
bourhood of the Pisang River, is the station given for it by Thunberg. It was introduced to 
Kew in 1791, by Mr. F. Masson, but is still a rare plant, on account, chiefly, of requiring so 
much heat and space. Thunberg describes the native caudex, or trunk, as eighteen feet long. 
