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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL 
PERIODICALS FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Amomum vitellinum. The history of this plant is unknown. It flowered in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society in May last, and is supposed to have been received from the East India 
Company. It grows about two feet high, with oblong wavy leaves ; and the flowers are deep 
yellow, strongly veined with red, growing in a short close spike, sessile among the uppermost 
leaves. It proves to be a stove perennial, requiring plenty of moisture and heat during its growth, 
but afterwards to be kept nearly dry. It flourishes in a mixture of sandy loam and peat, and is 
easily increased by division of the roots when in a torpid state. — Bot. Reg., 52. 
Dendrobium Kuhlii. This handsome plant is not unworthy to be placed by the side of its 
near ally, the beautiful D. secundum, from which it differs in having larger flowers, in short, 
lateral, few-flowered horizontal racemes. They are of a bright rose colour, and retain their fresh- 
ness longer than is usual in this genus. It was introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co., of Exeter, 
who received it from their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. It is a native of Java. — Bot. Reg., 47. 
Edgworthta chrysantha. This shrub was found by Mr. Fortune in Chusan, and by him was 
sent to the Horticultural Society in April, 1845. It is allied to Edgworthia {Daphne) Gardneri, 
a Nepal plant with a similar habit, from which it differs in having longer and more slender flowers, 
larger flower heads, and a much more silky hairiness on the outside of the flower. It is a green- 
house or half hardy shrub ; growing freely in a compost of three parts sandy loam and one of turfy 
peat. A free drainage is necessary ; for although it requires an ample supply of water during the 
summer months, it is liable to damp off if this point is not properly attended to. For a few weeks 
in winter very little water is required. Being sweet scented and a plant of free growth, it may be 
expected to prove a useful addition to our greenhouse or half hardy plants belonging to the 
natural order of Daphnads. In order to make it flower, the Chinese bind the stems so as to form 
a loop ; and this practice has been followed with success in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, where it produced its yellow flowers in the month of May. — Bot. Reg., 48. 
Epidendrum pyriforme. This very pretty little species was imported from Cuba by Messrs. 
Loddiges, with whom it flowered in January last. The leaves are unusually thick and fleshy, 
about four inches long, on little pseudo-bulbs, which look like inverted pears. Notwithstanding its 
diminutive stature, the flowers are fully two and a half inches in diameter, with reddish yellow 
sepals and petals, and a pale straw-coloured lip veined with crimson. — Bot. Reg., 50. 
Exogonium purga. This is the true Jalap plant ; that is to say, the species of Bindweed which 
inhabits woods in Xalapa, in Mexico, whence the name ; and where the tuberous purgative roots 
are collected, dried, and sent to Europe for medical use. The whole order of Bindweeds possess 
the properties of Jalap in a more or less marked degree ; and if we do not employ the creeping 
roots, or the seeds, of the species that grow in our hedges, it is only because exotic plants are more 
active. In cultivation this should be regarded as a stove herbaceous climber, which grows freely 
in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf-mould in equal portions. After flowering it should be allowed 
to become gradually dry ; and, eventually, may be placed (pot and soil) in a cellar or similar situa- 
tion, where it is out of the reach of damp and frost, and where it may remain until the following 
April, when it should again be fresh potted and started in heat. It flowers late in the autumn, and 
requires a stove heat at that time, otherwise the flowers will not expand. — Bot. Reg., 49. 
Gardenia longistyla. Another beautiful white flowering Gardenia, from tropical Western 
Africa, where it was discovered by Mr. Whitfield. It flowered in June last with Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, and Co., Exeter ; and is a handsome and most distinctly marked species with long 
flowers and a style twice the length of the corollas, terminated by a large globose stigma. It 
requires the heat of the stove for its successful cultivation, and does not seem shy of flowering.— 
Bot. Mag., 4322. 
