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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Tetrane^ma mexica x na. There can hardly be a more profuse blooming plant than the present : 
it is in fact almost perpetually in flower. During the winter and spring months, if kept in a 
stove, it makes a very engaging object ; and ought to be in the possession of every one who has 
the conveniency for it. From its dwarf habit it requires little room, and may be managed like a 
Gloxinia, except that it scarcely needs a season of repose. It possesses a close affinity with the 
Pentstemons ; and the flowers, though smaller, are not unlike those of P. arguta, either in form 
or colour. 
Russe^lia floribu'nda. A shrubby plant with ovate crenate leaves, and producing axillary 
pendent Pentstemon-like flowers near the end of the shoots. Each flower is about an inch and 
a half long, and of a fine purple colour. It has flowered at the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, and at 
some of the provincial establishments. It is said to be nearly hardy. By some nurseryman's 
blunder this plant has acquired the name of Vassalia. 
Achime'nes argyrosti'gma. We have given a notice of this novelty in a previous page, from 
the u Botanical Magazine," and only wish to suggest here, that although certainly far inferior to 
any other member of the family it belongs to, yet nevertheless, it is not improbable that it might 
become the parent of some highly interesting varieties, by fertilising its seeds with the pollen of 
some more showy species. We hope some of those who possess the plant will make the 
attempt. If the habit with the foliage of this, and the flowers even of the small A. coccinea, 
could be combined, it would be a valuable achievement. A specimen far past its prime was 
exhibited at the Horticultural Society's Rooms in Regent Street, from the Kew Gardens, where 
we noticed plants of it a short time before, in a more perfect and much prettier state. When 
well-cultivated in large patches in pans, it will at least be interesting for its handsome silvery 
dotted foliage. 
iEcHME x A fu'lgens. A specimen of this handsome Bromeliaceous plant is flowering at 
Messrs. Rollisson's Nursery, Tooting. The substance, form, and arrangement of the foliage, 
gives the plant something of the aspect of a miniature pine-apple. But the florescence is 
the most remarkable. The flowers appear on a stem which issues from the centre of the tuft of 
leaves, and are arranged in a spicate form, the whole appearing of a brilliant coral red with 
violet points. It is a magnificent, and by no means a common plant yet, although it has been in 
the country between two and three years. 
Barle^ria — ? A pretty upright-growing Acanth with erect branches slightly swollen at 
the nodes, clothed with oblong leaves on long footstalks, and with terminal spikes of handsome 
violet-blue flowers of considerable size, and mostly turning in the same direction. It is an East 
Indian plant obtained by Messrs. Henderson of Pine-apple Place, who exhibited a specimen at 
the Regent Street meeting in the beginning of August. It seems likely to flower in succession 
for a considerable time. 
Besle^ria pulche'lla. A prettily-marked, but not very showy flower. It is a Gesneriaceous 
plant, with strong thick stems, and large ovate foliage much wrinkled on the surface, and of a 
lively green. We have noticed it in flower for some months at the Pine-apple Place Nursery. 
The flowers are rather small for the plant, and only developed a few at a time : their colour is 
an orange-yellow, streaked with red. 
Bu'ddlea Lindleya^na. The plant lately issued from the Garden of the Horticultural Society 
under this name, has recently flowered in the large conservatory there, and proves a very pretty 
thing, though the blossoms are not large. It is one of the products of Mr. Fortune's Botanical 
Mission to China. Grown in pots it has a rather loose habit, but it loses much of this when 
planted out of doors in a border. The flowers are arranged in secund racemes from four to six 
inches long, and perhaps longer. The corolla consists of a long curved tube, with a rich violet 
four-cleft spreading border. Specimens left in a border through the last winter, were killed 
down to the root ; but have made strong shoots since the spring. 
Da'is cotinifo'lia. One of those old plants now almost confined to Botanic or old established 
Gardens, but which well deserves to rank amongst showy greenhouse productions. It is a 
shrub from the Cape of Good Hope, with much of the general aspect of a Pimelea. A specimen 
at Kew was lately covered with its fine showy heads of rich pink flowers. 
