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NEW AND RARE PLANTS IN FLOWER. 
flower in the same situation as those before mentioned, and, if carefully taken 
from the ground before the occurrence of frost, will make an excellent show in 
the greenhouse at this season. It should be in every collection, and the low price 
at which it may be purchased renders it available for all classes. The Heaths of 
these gentlemen are now particularly attractive, as a great number of them are 
flowering profusely. 
Mr. Knight's, Chelsea. Hymdncea Courbaril. An old but rare and most 
singular stove plant. It is of climbing habits, or at least may with great pro- 
priety be trained to a wall, has large, doubly pinnate, handsome foliage, and the 
flowers are produced numerously in dense clusters. These latter are of themselves 
inconspicuous and insignificant, but a great number of slender filaments of a 
delicate rose colour proceed from them, and these, when fully developed, have 
a most interesting appearance. It certainly deserves more extensive cultivation 
than it at present enjoys, as it is quite an ornament to the stove. Aphelandra 
cristata. This most splendid old stove plant is now flowering in great perfection 
at the nursery above mentioned, and as it is by no means cultivated to the extent 
it merits, we take this opportunity of recommending it to every grower of stove 
exotics. The flowers are produced in large terminal clusters, and, for brilliancy 
of colour, they are almost unequalled by any others of their class. They are 
of a bright scarlet hue, and resemble in form those of the species of J?isticia, to 
which latter genus the present plant is allied. Galphimia glauca. A rare and 
very showy stove plant, with deep yellow-coloured blossoms, which are produced 
abundantly from the extremities of the shoots. It is an ornamental plant, of 
dwarf habits, and, together with G. splendem, should form a part of every good 
collection. 
Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney. We never remember to have witnessed such a 
number of new and beautiful orchidaceous plants in flower, even in the splendid 
collection of these gentlemen, as there is at the present period. We must there- 
fore content ourselves with a very brief notice of the most remarkable of them, and 
commence with Lwlia autumnalis. This is one of the most lovely of all orchi- 
daceous plants, vying with Dendrobium rtioniliforvne in the exquisite delicacy of 
the tints of its flowers. To the flowers of the plant just mentioned, those of the 
present species likewise bear some resemblance. They are produced in erect 
spikes from the summit of the pseudo bulb, (which latter is of a roundish oblong 
form,) varying in number according to the size of the plant ; the predominant colour 
is a beautiful purplish lilac, which merges towards the centre into a light flesh 
colour. They are about an inch and a half across, and, when fully expanded, 
have a most enchanting appearance. Miltonia Candida. This is scarcely less 
beautiful than the preceding, though the flowers are of a less attractive colour. 
The flower spike is erect, and proceeds from the base of the pseudo bulb ; the flowers 
are large, of a dull yellow ground, copiously mottled with brown, and the labellum 
