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the colour is pale glaucous green. The flowers are rather large for the genus, pale greenish yellow, j 
and terminal or on divaricated articulations upon the lower part of the stem." — Bot. Mag. 4039. | 
Schiza'nthus ca'ndidus. a beautiful and most distinct species, which has " pinnatifid leaves, | 
with linear, entire, rather wavy segments. The flowers are pure white, without a stain of any other j 
colour ; their lower lip has the middle lobe divided into two acuminate flat segments, and the two ' 
lateral ones setaceous and shorter. The upper lobe is two-parted. This was found wild near 
Coquimbo by Mr. Bridges. It is a very pretty half-hardy annual, and well worth cultivation." — 
Bot. Reg. 45. ^ 
Sci'lla Peruviana ; var. di'scolor. " That the Peruvian Squill does not grow in Peru is well 
known, the name having been applied by Linneeus in consequence of some erroneous statements 
of Clusius or Morison. Neither is it found in India, as one of its old synonymes would lead us to 
suppose. Its real country is Portugal, about Cintra, according to Brotero ; Algiers, where Des- 
fontaines found it in corn-fields ; Tripoli, on hill sides, according to Delia Cella ; Corsica, near S. 
Bonifacio, where Seraphini found it ; clayey hills in Sicily, as we learn from Gussone, and even the 
sterile hills outside the gate Degli angioli of Genoa, as we are assured by Viviani. The present 
plant was sent from Algiers to the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Manchester, and therefore 
agrees in its native country with S. peruviana. At first sight, however, it seems so different, that 
it cannot be regarded as the same species. But, by a careful examination, no other distinction has 
been discovered between them than that of the colour of the flowers, which are neither white nor 
bright blue, as in the previously known states of S. peruviana, but a dirty pale fawn colour. No 
doubt it is as hardy as the Peruvian Squill ; and although not so handsome, still worth a place in 
a bulb garden." — Bot Reg. 48. 
Stanho'pea Martia'na ; var. bicolor. S. Mar liana is " a native of Mexico, discovered by 
Baron Karwinski in 1827, and afterwards by M. Galeotti. It is one of the most distinct and mag- 
nificent species of the genus, and in the magnitude of its blossoms is second only to S. tigrina. 
The sepals are straw-coloured, or almost white, faintly and sparingly marked with clusters of little 
vinous dots ; the petals appear transparent white, with large spots of intense crimson ; the lip is 
a clear ivory white, except a slight discoloration at the base. The horns are of great size and 
strength, and taper into a kind of tendril, besides which they are exactly parallel with the epichi- 
lium, the form of which is almost linear, the two edges being as nearly as possible parallel with each 
other, and not a great deal broader than the column, a mark by which the species is immediately 
recognised. The present variety is a lovely plant, with large pure white flowers, richly but 
sparingly spotted with crimson. In the original *S'. Martiana the sepals are straw-coloured, and 
much more dotted with purple. Messrs. Rollisson have lately flowered it, and believe they obtained 
it from Mexico. It is as fine a thing as ^S*. tigrina would be, if its flowers were white, and is very 
sweet-scented." — Bot. Reg. 44. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER AT THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES. 
Bego^nia ? A very'handsome and valuable species of Begonia has flowered for some time 
past in the stove of Messrs. Young, Epsom, and is the same which we noticed as blooming there 
last year. It has scarcely any visible stem, and is so compact that the entire plant does not appear 
to be more than nine inches high. Yet the leaves are large, of a deep green above, and a very 
rich sanguine hue behind. They are so placed as to present either the front or the back to the 
beholder, and not to have the surface horizontal. The leaf-stalks are clothed with a quantity 
of small, soft, whitish scales, something like those of B. manicata, but far more irregular and 
numerous. The flowers are in copious panicles, and are individually large, showy, and of a dai'k 
pink hue. 
Cycno'ches Egertonia'num. This most curious plant has lately flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, 
of Hackney, and is so totally distinct from the other species, that it is quite inconceivable how it 
could have bloomed on the same specimen as C. ventricosum, as is supposed to have been the case 
in the collection of J. Bateman, Esq. It bears a very long slender raceme of flowers, more in the 
