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which belong to the genus Caprifolium. This is a hardy, middle-sized shrub, which thrives in 
any good garden soil, and flowers during the months of May and June. It is easily increased by 
cuttings of the half-ripe wood, if treated in the same way as those of the common Honeysuckle, 
It was raised from seeds received from Dr. Royle, from the north of India." BoL Reg. 33. 
Mori'na longifo^lia. " A very handsome and a hardy plant, which few persons, perhaps, at 
the first aspect, would suppose to be a congener with the Fuller^ Teasel : yet such is the case. 
It is entirely an Oriental genus. The original species found in the Levant by Tournefort, is, in 
many respects, nearly allied to this, but the leaves ai'e decidedly smaller, and the bracteas 
much narrower ; and both are far more spiny, and the whorls of flowers are much more 
distant. The lobes of the calyx are entire or bifid in both species, and I do not in any way see 
how the M. Wallichiana, of Dr. Royle, is different from this. That gentleman's M. Coulteriana 
seems to have the long coarse spines of M. Persica. Our M. longifolia was discovered by Dr. 
Wallich in Gosgain Than. Dr. Royle found it at Mussooree, and on Choor, as well as on the 
mountains of Cashmeer. We also possess specimens from Lady Dalhousie, gathered on Whultoo, 
in the Himalayas, at an elevation of 10,673 feet above the level of the sea." It is an herbaceous 
plant, flowering in whorls, upon a stem usually eighteen inches or two feet high. When the 
flowers first expand, they are of a delicate, pale rose colour, but deepen with exposure into a 
rich, soft carmine, sinking almost to white at the margins. The lower or radical leaves are 
very long, and those of the stem gradually become shorter. Boi. Mag. 4092. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS FLOWERING IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN NURSERIES 
AND GARDENS. 
A^ERiDES MACULO^suM. A uevv species exhibited at the Horticultural Rooms, in Regent- 
street, in the early part of last month, from the Nursery of Messrs, Rollisson, of Tooting. It 
approaches more nearly to A. Brookii than any other, but the peduncle bearing the inflorescence 
is branched, instead of being simply racemose, as in that species and affine. Towards the extre- 
mities the petals are bent forward, and with the lip form a slightly concave cup-like flower. From 
A. odorata they are easily known through the absence of the curious articulation in the labellum, 
which distinguishes that species from the rest of the genus. The size of the flower is intermediate 
between A. Brookii or c/ispmn, and A. affine. The sepals and petals are pi-ettily spotted with 
purple on a light ground, and there is a large blotch on the lip of a similar tint, with much of the 
same delicate softness so pleasing in other large flowered species. Another recommendatory 
quality is the delicious sweetness which the flowers exhale continually. The leaves are large and 
broad, of a full rich green colour. It was received by Messrs. Rollisson some years back from 
Bombay. It has a habit like the other species, and will, consequently, be most suitable for 
cultivating on a block of wood, or in a basket filled with moss, to cover the lowest roots and 
maintain them in a more uniformly moist condition, and suspended a short distance below the 
roof, in a warm and humid atmosphere. 
Epa'cris minia'ta. Lovely as are many of this genus, when well cultivated and flowering in 
perfection, there is, perhaps, none that can vie with the present in point of beauty, certainly none 
that excel it. It is an entirely new species, lately introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, 
in whose nursery several handsome specimens are now flowering. At first sight it appears to 
bear a strong resemblance to E. grandijlora, but this is chiefly owing to a similar disposition of 
colour, as it is markedly distinct in other respects. The leaves of E. grandijlora are produced on 
short petioles, and the segments of the flower limb scarcely expand. In E. miniata the leaves 
are more decidedly heart-shaped and quite sessile, and the limb of the flower is completely 
expanded and much larger. The tube, too, is deeper and brighter in colour, which is rendered 
yet more conspicuous and pleasing from the greater purity of the white termination. The flowers 
are produced all along the shoots, from the insertion of every leaf, and sometimes extending 
for a foot or eighteen inches, each turning to one side, forming a long line of pendent blossoms. 
Franci'scea hydrangejefo'rmis. Plants of this species have been some time in Messrs. 
Low's and some others of the London nurseries, without producing flower ; perhaps chiefly 
owing to the desire to obtain young plants from cuttings. The first specimen known to flower in 
this country is one now in bloom at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, and lately shown at a 
meeting of the Horticultural Society iu Regent-sti-eet. The flowers are about the same size, and 
