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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
LOASEiE. 
Blumenbachia multifida. Multifid-leaved Blumenbachia. This is an 
interesting- little plant, with yellowish-white pretty flowers, and handsome leaves. 
It is a much stronger growing- plant than Bl. insignis, being- more compact, more 
hispid, with stings ; the leaves are much larger, five-partite in a palmate manner, 
the middle lobe the largest, but all of them bipinnatifid, and wrinkled upon the 
surface. Bot. Mag. 3599. 
THE LOBELIA TRIBE (LOBELI ACE2E). 
Lobelia Cavanillesii. Cavanilles* Lobelia. A very graceful and desirable 
stove-plant, a native of New Spain. The plant grows nearly three feet high, erect, 
scarcely branched, rounded, dark purple, clothed with scattered leaves, spreading- in 
all directions and nearly horizontally, four to six inches long- ; sessile, lanceolate, 
glabrous, acuminated, acutely serrated for their whole length. The flowers are of a 
rich orange red, and very plentiful, one arising from the axilla of almost every leaf. 
It will grow well in light rich soil in the stove. Bot. Mag. 3600. 
THE LOBELIA TRIBE (lOBELIACEJE). 
Lobelia siphilitica hybrid a. Hybrid variety of the blue American 
Lobelia. This is a most beautiful plant, the offspring of L. siphilitica on the one 
hand, and L. splendens or fulgens, or cardinalis, on the other. The foliage is most 
like the first, while the size and form of the flower chiefly resemble the three last ; 
and the colour seems to partake of the red of the latter, combined with the blue of 
L. siphilitica, thus producing a rich purple hue, such as is very difficult to be 
imitated by the pencil of the artist. It is quite hardy, growing in the open air to 
the height of two or three feet, blossoming through the summer months, and con- 
tinuing in great beauty till cut off by the autumnal frosts. Bot Mag. 3604. 
GESNERIACEiE. 
Gesneria Lindleyi. Dr. Lindley's Gesneria. This is a very striking plant, 
handsome in its foliage and in its flowers, which latter, though each is of few days' 
duration, are succeeded by others in the same whorl for a considerable length of 
time. It is a native of Brazil, and blossoms with us in the stove during the months 
of June and July. Bot. Mag. 3602. 
the oxalis tribe (oxalideje). 
Oxalis alba. White-flowered Wood-sorrel. This is a highly interesting 
species with pure white flowers, about the size of those of O. Baueri. The leaves 
are about as long as the scapes, erect, ternate, glabrous, green ; leaflets cuneate at 
the base, deeply bipartite, with linear, blunt, divaricate, three-nerved lobes, two 
inches long, slightly revolute at the margins, and marked especially beneath with 
depressed dots. The drawing, communicated by Mr. James Macnab, was taken 
from a plant that flowered in the collection of Dr. Neill, of Edinburgh, in May 
last. The species is thought to be from America, from its near affinity to 
O. bipartita and divergens. Brit. Ft. Gard. 398. 
