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NEW AND RARE PLANTS IN FLOWER. 
very lovely species is now splendidly in flower in the collection of these gentlemen, 
and the richness and brilliancy of the colour of its flowers impart to it an air of 
elegance and beauty rarely surpassed. Epidendrum tenuiflorum. This species 
has been most appropriately named, for the sepals and petals of its flowers are 
extremely narrow and slender. In habit it approaches nearest to E. cliff mum, like 
that species also producing its flowers abundantly ; but these latter are almost 
devoid of interest, at least of beauty. 
Mr. Low's, Clapton. Salvia patens. This is a highly interesting and well- 
distinguished species, raised in the nursery just mentioned, from seeds imported 
from Mexico. It has rather large, broad, and rugose foliage, and the flowers are 
produced freely in terminal spikes, both from the principal and lateral shoots. 
They are of a most intense and almost inimitable blue colour, which for loveliness 
and real beauty we have seldom seen excelled in any other flower, and we can 
candidly pronounce it to be a species of sterling merit. It is most probably a 
half-hardy perennial, as it is at present growing and flowering in the open ground. 
Two other plants, apparently new species of Lobelia, are also now flowering with 
this gentleman, which were raised from seeds received with the other from the 
same quarter, one of which has pink flowers of a very neat character, and is 
certainly worthy of notice and cultivation. Mr. Low also possesses a new species 
of Verbena, raised from imported seeds, the flowers of which are of a beautiful and 
delicate rose-colour, but materially different from those of every other species or 
variety, and of a larger size than those of any we have previously seen. 
Messrs. Rollison's, Tooting. In our last number we were led into an error 
respecting the habits of the new species of Stanhopea, which flowered in the nur- 
sery of these gentlemen, as we there stated that the flowers were produced in 
pairs, a circumstance which we were induced to believe from the rather singular 
coincidence of the plant producing four spikes, each of which bore only two 
flowers ; we have since ascertained that the scape is continuous, and consequently 
that the number of flowers depends on local circumstances, and the strength of the 
plant. Tweedia floribunda. An interesting new greenhouse plant, with numerous 
pretty pink blossoms, which appear in a terminal spike. The flowers are not large, 
but of a very neat character, and by no means unornamental. Crucianella 
stylosa. An exceedingly pretty little herbaceous plant, of trailing habits, with 
dense corymbs of elegant pink flowers, which vie in beauty with almost any 
species of Verbena, although they are much smaller. It is an imported species, 
and was raised from seeds in the garden of these gentlemen, where it is at this 
time flowering most beautifully. 
Mr. Youmg's, Epsom. Chelone Mexicana. This is a new and ornamental 
species obtained from seeds of Mexican importation. It is remarkable for the 
great length of its slender foliage, and differs in this respect from C. barbata, as 
well as in the colour of its flowers, which is of a much lighter crimson than that 
of the species just named. It is an interesting addition to our half-hardy herba- 
