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NOTICES OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL NURSERIES IN THE VICINITY OF LONDON. 
Messrs. Henderson's, Pine Apple Place. Gardoquia multiflora. This is a 
rare and elegant species, well adapted either for stove or greenhouse purposes. A 
great profusion of neat purple blossoms is exhibited during the autumnal months, 
and on this account it will be a welcome addition to any collection. Its usual 
height is about one foot or eighteen inches*, its habits very slender and graceful, and 
the flowers are nearly the size of those of G. Hookerii. It is most beautifully in 
flower in the greenhouse of this nursery. Tropasolum peregrinum. This species 
has now been in our collections for two or three years, but we were particularly 
struck with the extraordinary beauty of a specimen in the collection of these gen- 
tlemen. Its bold character, handsome foliage, and delicately fringed yellow 
blossoms, give it a very ornamental appearance when well cultivated, and render it 
little inferior in some respects, and certainly superior in others, to T. tricolorum. 
It thrives well in the open ground during the summer season, and is always a 
valuable ornament to the greenhouse. Several excellent varieties of Petunia are 
most brilliantly in flower at this nursery, some of which are of a very superior 
character, and have flowers of an exquisitely rich colour. 
Mr. Knight's, Chelsea. Funckia albo marginata. A very interesting new 
Japan species, discovered and introduced by Dr. Siebold, and at present rather 
rare. It is an ornamental border-plant, with fine spreading foliage, which has a 
stripe of yellowish white round its margins, and forms a pleasing contrast to the 
pale lilac-coloured flowers, which are produced numerously. It is flowering in a 
pot in the above nursery, and is treated as a half-hardy plant, but will probably 
succeed in the open border with a slight protection in the winter. Ionopsis 
utricularioicles. A rare and extremely elegant little orchidaceous plant, the 
minuteness of the flowers of which is sufficiently counterbalanced by their delicate 
hue, and the graceful manner in which they are produced. It is unquestionably a 
favourite with all lovers of Orchidacese, though far from being a showy species. 
It would seem to grow best when attached to a piece of wood, and suspended from 
the roof of the house, but will thrive almost equally well in a pot, if due caution 
is exercised in preserving it from superabundant moisture. 
Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney. Stanhopea Wardii. This is a new and distinct 
species, received by these gentlemen from La Guayra, and named in compliment 
to the gentleman by whom it was sent. The flowers are not quite so large as 
those of some other species, but are very handsome, the ground colour being a dull 
yellow, with a few spots of brown ; the labellum is of the richest atrosanguineous 
hue, surrounded by a circle of bright orange, and the flowers are produced in pen- 
dulous racemes, indefinite in number. It has recently flowered at this nursery, 
and other flowers will again shortly be developed. Dendrohium Gibsonii. This 
