NOTICES OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
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orchideae-house, it is richly ornamented, from one end to the other, with festoons 
formed by plants of the Passiflora Kermesina, which is now producing- its superb 
crimson-coloured flowers in great perfection, and is a most delightful feature in a 
house of this description. Their large camellia-house is now becoming very 
attractive, as many fine specimens are now in flower, but the chief beauty of them 
is yet to come, as the greater part have not yet flowered. 
Mr. Low's, Clapton. Mr. Low has another fine specimen of Camellia 
Doncklaerii, beautifully in flower ; also a good plant of C. bicolor, which is another 
new and beautiful species, and though perhaps the latter is not quite so good as the 
former, yet it nevertheless possesses a great share of beauty, and is, as well as the 
former, highly deserving a place in every collection. Mr. Low has an excellent 
stock of the Chysis aurea, which is a new, curious, and somewhat beautiful 
orchideous plant, and which no collection of this much admired tribe should be 
destitute of. The Iris Chinensis, an old but very beautiful stove-plant, is now 
flowering at the above nursery in great perfection, and makes a very excellent 
ornament to our stoves at this season of the year. 
Messrs. Rollison's, Tooting. Acacia pubescens. A very fine plant of this 
beautiful species is now flowering in great profusion at this nursery, and has a very 
imposing appearance. Their orchideous plants are in a remarkably healthy con- 
dition, and promise fair to produce a good succession of flowers during the coming 
season ; their house still looks very lively on account of the very fine specimens of 
Oncidiunz luridum, the flower spikes of which run along the top of the house, 
twine round the pillars, and assume various fantastical forms, producing their 
flowers in great abundance. The various species of this beautiful genus (Oncidium) 
are, we think, cultivated more successfully by Messrs. Rollison, than in any other 
collection we have ever witnessed. They have a fine plant of Cyrtopodium 
Andersonii now in flower, and one of the Monochanthus viridis, as well as some 
others of less importance. 
Mr. Young's, Epsom. Rhododendron CunninghamiL This is, we believe, a 
new species of this extensive genus, which, although it has within the last few 
years received many valuable additions, yet the species now before us seems to 
surpass even JR. arboreum in the richness and beauty of the colour of its flowers ; 
it is now flowering very freely at the above nursery, and is a most valuable addition 
to our present stock of the greenhouse species of this much admired genus. Besides 
the above, Mr. Young has several very good hybrid varieties of Rhododendron 
now in flower, which are well worthy of notice. Sisyrinchium grandiflorum — this 
beautiful little plant is now producing its elegant purple blossoms in great 
abundance, and is admirably adapted for filling a situation in the greenhouse, among 
other early flowering plants. 
