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NEW AND RARE PLANTS IN FLOWER. 
now producing its flowers. Curcuma Roscoeana. One of the many plants dis- 
covered by Dr. Wallich in the East Indies, and named by that gentleman after 
the celebrated botanist Roscoe. The flowers, though comparatively insignificant 
in themselves, are produced in a terminal spike, and severally enveloped in a bril- 
liant scarlet sheath, which imparts to them a most ornamental character. Plants 
of it are now splendidly in flower in the stove of this nursery. 
Messrs. Low & Co.'s, Clapton. Croicea saligna. In the absence of any 
remarkably new feature, we notice a very handsome specimen of this valuable old 
plant, which is now completely covered with its beautiful pink blossoms in the 
greenhouse of this nursery. To all who are desirous of cultivating those plants 
which develop their flowers at this most gloomy season, we cannot recommend a 
more suitable object than that above-named. HeUchrysum macranthum is still 
producing its charming flowers in the open ground, and appears likely to remain 
in this state till more severe frost occurs. Buddlea Madagascariensis^ another 
autumnal-flowering greenhouse plant, deserves to be much more extensively culti- 
vated than it is at present, as it is now exhibiting a rich profusion of its showy 
orange- coloured blossoms. 
Messrs. Rollison's, Tooting. Cycnoches chlorochilum. A remarkably large- 
flowered new species, the flowers of which greatly exceed those of the species 
previously known in size, and are of a greenish-yellow colour. It has recently 
flowered in the collection of these gentlemen. Maxillaria Rollisonii. One of the 
smallest, but not the least interesting of Maxillarias ; before noticed by us, but 
now producing a great abundance of its pretty blossoms. It is suspended from the 
roof of the orchidaceous house in the half of a cocoa-nut shell, in the bottom of 
which holes are bored for drainage, and the plant is growing in reduced moss. We 
mention these facts, as most growers of orchidacese are attached to novelties, and 
we conceive this to be one, besides forming a most suitable receptacle for the 
plant, and exhibiting its beauty most favourably. Cyanotis axillaris. This is 
not a new plant, but is certainly a very rare one. It is closely allied to the genus 
Tradescantia^ and much resembles the species of it in habit. An astonishing 
profusion of its charming little blue blossoms is now expanded, and it is a great 
ornament to the stove. 
Messrs. Young's, Epsom. Lisianthus Russelianus. This splendid plant is 
flowering in great perfection in the nursery of the gentlemen above named, and its 
large blue flowers make a most brilliant display. It should be observed that this 
is the genuine species, as some very inferior varieties have been cultivated in many 
collections. Cytisus nuhiginensis. A very interesting species, with slender, pendent 
branches, from the joints of which numerous clusters of neat white blossoms 
are produced, these latter being delightfully fragrant. It is a remarkably free- 
flowering plant, and is particiilarly valuable on account of its blossoms appearing 
at the present period. Roella elegans. This charming little plant is now blooming 
in great beauty in the stove of the gentlemen before mentioned, and its lively blue 
flowers contribute much to the appearance of that department. 
