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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
J^EW AND RARE PLANTS, FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
SEPTEMBER, 
CLASS I.— PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONE^). 
THE POPPY TRIBE (Papaverace^s). 
Platystemon leiocarpum. Smooth-fruited Platystemon. Very little dif- 
ference is discernible, except in the smoothness of its seed-vessels, between this 
species and the pretty P. calif or nicum. The latter is, indeed, decidedly more 
interesting, as the flowers are larger, and of a pleasing uniform colour ; whereas 
those of the present plant, judging from the figure before us, are pale green at the 
base of the petals, above which they are nearly white, and again quite yellow at the 
tips. It is an annual plant, a native of Ross, in New California, from whence seeds 
were transmitted to St. Petersburgh. From the Imperial Garden of this last city 
some were forwarded to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where the plant flowered 
in August and September, 1836. Bot. Mag. 3750. 
THE BEAN TRIBE {Leguminbsce). 
BauhInia corymbosa. Corymb-flowering Bauhinia. A very showy, and 
remarkably free-growing species, long since introduced into this country, from 
China ; but, through some strange neglect, or other more inexplicable circumstance, 
it had never blossomed till September, 1838, when its fine clusters of delicate pink 
flowers expanded in the greenhouse at Redleaf. It is described as being naturally 
most prodigal of blossoms ; and Dr. Lindley plausibly presumes, that the specimen 
which has thus flowered will, with the progeny that may be raised from it by 
cuttings, henceforth continue to display its beauties annually. In a rich soil, and a 
temperature a little higher than that of the greenhouse, it will succeed admirably, 
being apparently of a luxuriant habit. Bot. Reg. 47. 
ZicHYA tricolor. Three-coloured Zichya. From the genus Kennedia a small 
section has been detached by Baron Hugel, and formed into a distinct group, under 
the above generic title. Z. tricolor approaches the old Kennedia (now Zichya) 
dilatata in some particulars, but differs from it in the rounder margin and more 
obtuse extremity of the leaves, and in the flowers not being of one colour, since 
" the keel is deep purple, the wings are bright rose-colour, and the vexillum is a 
bright brick red." It is a charming addition to this elegant genus of climbing 
plants, being fully equal in beauty to Kennedia coccinea^ although of a rather more 
spreading character. The drawing in the Botanical Register was obtained from 
Mr. Young, of Milford Nursery, near Godalming. In conjunction with its allies, 
it should be kept in a partially dry situation, and never subjected to artificial heat. 
Bot. Reg, 52. 
