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arger flowers." It was sent from " Guatemala, to his friends, by Mr. Skinner ; by Mr. Hartweg, 
rom the same country and Mexico, to the Horticultural Society ; and from Honduras to Messrs. 
Loddiges, with whom the species first flowered in February 1841." Boi. Reg. .30. 
Obnitho''galum divarica'tum. By no means a striking plant. " Mr. Hindes, the surgeon of 
the Sulphur, surveying ship, met with it on the coast of California, and sent it to the Horticultural 
Society, in whose garden it flowered last June. It has large oblong bulbs, covered with coarse 
brown scales ; the leaves are very long, wavy, channelled, of a dull green colour, and being too 
weak to support their own weight, they lie prostrate. The flowering stem is erect, about two 
feet high, panicled from the base, with straggling branches bearing slender racemes of distant 
flowers. The latter are white, with a green stripe along the back of each division. It is a hardy 
bulbous plant, requiring the same treatment as Veratrums or Helonias, and growing freely in any 
sandy soil. It flowers from July to August." Bot. Reg. 28. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS LATELY IN FLOWER AT THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES AND GARDENS, 
Campa'nula GRA'^'DIS. A plant of this name is now flowering in a greenhouse at Messrs. 
Rollisson's, Tooting, and is said to be nearly or quite hai'dy. It approaches nearest to C. 
pyramidalis, producing its flowers in a tall erect spike. The leaves are, however, longer and 
narrower, and the flowers are larger, as well as of a richer blue colour. It promises to be a 
particularly fine species. 
Choroze'ma va'rium na'na. Of the several varieties of this pretty plant, the best is a 
peculiarly dwarf kind, found in most nurseries under the above appellation. It is a very low- 
growing sort, extremely bushy, and having lai'ge dark-coloured blossoms, which it produces in 
great abundance. Few greenhouse exotics are superior to it. 
Fu'cHsiA Monype'nnii. We have just seen at Messrs. Henderson's, Pine-apple Place, a spe- 
cimen of this new hybrid. It is a luxuriant grower, with handsome leaves, and very long 
spreading flowers, which are of a most brilliant red colour. It is certainly one of the finest of 
its class. 
Gompholo'bium Henderso^nii. This very interesting species is a dwarf shrub, of a singularly 
compact habitude, with numberless short lateral shoots, from the tops of all which the beautiful 
flowers issue singly or in clusters. They are bright yellowish red, sometimes changing to a duller 
and paler hue. It remains in bloom many weeks, and is at present flowering with Messrs. Hen- 
derson, of Pine-apple Place. 
Ipomce'a RUBRo-CiERU^LEA vav. A plcasing variety of /. rubro-ccerulea is blooming in a stove 
at Messrs. Henderson's, and is noticeable for producing its flowers while in a small state. The 
blossoms are also destitute of any tinge of red, and are of that deep and beautiful pure blue which 
the sky sometimes assumes at midsummer. By plucking off* some of the leaves, the development 
of flowers seems to be facilitated. 
L^^LiA fla'va. Yellow flowers certainly constitute a novelty among Lselias, and the present 
species is, besides, particularly elegant. The pseudo-bulbs and leaves approximate to those of L. 
cinnah ar in a, iind the flowers are elevated on a slender Vv'aving stalk, rather more than a foot long. 
They are numerous, and of a brilliant and rich yellow tint, with an inclination to light orange. 
We saw it blooming, a short time since, in the choice collection of S. Rucker, Esq., of Wands- 
worth, Surrey. 
Lala^ge hove^fo'lia. Diff'ering from L. ornata in the greater weakness of its branches, its 
less erect habit, and its opposite downy foliage. It germinated in the Clapton Nursery from seeds 
derived from the Swan River Colony, and has recently flowered in one of Mr. Low's greenhouses. 
The flowers, like those of L, ornata, are yellow, which gradually changes to brown in the centre. 
It is a good species, and, as we think, excels L. ornata in some particulars. 
Mi'lla ? A plant which undoubtedly belongs to this genus has bloomed all the winter 
in an open pit at Mr, Low's, Clapton. It has slender, half-drooping, channelled leaves, and bears 
