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Campanula lactiflora. In the gardens of the late Mr. Wells, Redleaf, Kent, this old though 
fine plant was flowering most profusely, varying, according to treatment, from bushy plants one 
foot high, to splendid specimens six feet high, completely laden with delicate pale blue tinted 
flowers. When seen in such a state as the latter, it makes a very handsome appearance in the 
flower garden. 
Physostegia virginiana. A fine and very useful plant for the border, having long racemes 
four feet high, forming a compact bush, nearly the same in diameter, covered with long deep blue 
flowers. The specimen here noticed was in the gardens of the late Mr. Wells, Redleaf. 
Erythrina Bidwilliana. We have recently received from Messrs. Veitch, Exeter, a specimen, 
in flower, of this charming hybrid variety. In habit it is very neat and pretty ; blooms when not 
more than twenty inches high, sending forth a spike upwards of nine inches in length. The 
flowers are of a most beautiful crimson, smaller than E. Crista-galli, but certainly far superior in 
colour, and appears to flower equally as free. We hope to see this handsome variety generally 
cultivated. 
Heliophila trifida. An elegant growing autumnal plant, we believe, introduced by the 
Horticultural Society, from whom Messrs. Backhouse, York, received seeds, and who favoured 
us with a specimen in flower. It has a slender and diffuse habit ; much branched ; producing 
beautiful sky-blue flowers in abundance. It is certainly one of the prettiest annuals of recent 
introduction. 
Ixia spe. nov. Messrs. Backhouse, York, have also favoured us with flowers of a most 
brilliant orange scarlet colour, thought to be an Ixia. It was received by them from Caffraria, and 
expected to prove half hardy. The flower scape is from eighteen inches to two feet high, with 
distant lateral racemes near twelve inches from the apex or extremity downwards, producing an 
abundance of bloom. The foliage is long, narrow, and very graceful. 
Ixora Javanica. At the July fete of the Horticultural Society, Chiswick, Messrs. Veitch 
exhibited a new species of Ixora, from Java, which will form a decided acquisition to the species 
already in cultivation. The plant has large trusses of rich apricot coloured flowers, which are, 
when first expanded, a bright maize yellow, giving each truss a varied appearance. The 
individual flower is as large as /. coccinea, and quite pointed at the tip of the'petals. The foliage 
is handsome ; and it is in all respects a plant to suit cultivators as a specimen. 
Oncidium spe. nov. Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney, have recently flowered a most beautiful 
variety of Oncid. It has flowers verging upon 0. Lanceanum in size, and colour of labellum, 
which is a deep rosy purple on the upper or narrow part, extending to the centre, when it breaks 
off into small spots near the edge, which is white ; the sepals and petals are nearly allied to the 
luridum guttatum varieties, having a pale ground, richly spotted with brown. It is a very superior 
species in every respect. 
Pleroma elegans. This remarkably handsome plant was exhibited at the Horticultural 
Society's Rooms, Regent-street, by Messrs. Veitch, Exeter, who received it from the Organ 
Mountains of Brazil. It has a superior advantage over all the species, being very dwarf ; 
forming quite a bush ; with neat foliage of a peculiar bright and glossy green ; the flowers are of 
the richest purple, almost surpassing the splendid species P. Kunthiava, figured in our Magazine, 
No. 1 38, and nearly as large. The blooms possess a great attraction, as they last considerably 
longer than most of the other species ; this quality will make the plant a great ornament to the 
greenhouse. 
