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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL 
PERIODICALS FOR OCTOBER. 
Abelia floribunda. Noticed page 188 of our Magazine. The introduction of this pretty 
little pendulous shrub to our gardens was through the nursery of Mr. Booth, of Flottbeck, near 
Hamburgh. He obtained it from Rathsack, a Dane, who was sent to Mexico by the Danish 
Government, and whose plant, purchased by Mr. Booth in 1842, was named " Shrub with the red 
bell flowers ; Mirador." — Bot. Reg., 55. 
Achimenes pyrop.ea. A charming little plant, in an intermediate form between A. coccinea 
and rosea, having the bright scarlet flowers of the former, and the habit of growth and foliage of 
the latter. In brilliancy of colour it far surpasses either. In cultivation this species has the 
advantage of coming much earlier into bloom than the old A. coccinea, which seldom can be brought 
into flower before August, which is too late for summer exhibitions. It is a native of Guatemala, 
whence it was lately introduced by Mr. Skinner. 
Achimenes Skinnebj. This is a very handsome and distinct species, forming a link between 
the tall and dwarf er kinds, being exactly intermediate between A. grandiflora and hirsuta. The 
flowers are about the shape and size of those of A . grandiflora, and, like them, are quite flat and 
round ; the eye is large ; the throat yellow and spotted ; and the spreading limb a bright rose 
colour. — Hort. Jour., vol. ii.,p. 293. 
/Esc ii yna nth us LONGiFLORjjs. An eminently handsome plant, closely allied to JE. speciosus, 
but unquestionably distinct ; the differences being equally apparent in the dried native specimens 
as in the living ones. Much of the beauty of jE. speciosus is due to the varied colour (red and 
yellow) of the corolla ; in the present, to the rich uniform puce of the entire flower. Here the 
mouth of the corolla is much contracted, with the segments or lobes erect : the style scarcely 
exserted beyond the corolla, the stamens very much so ; — in JE. speciosus the style is very much 
exserted, the stamens scarcely so at all. It was introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, 
from Java, through their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. — Bot. Mag., 4328. 
NEW, RARE, OH INTERESTING PLANTS, IN FLOWER, IN THE DIFFERENT GARDENS AND 
NURSERIES IN AND ABOUT LONDON. 
Acacia linifolia. In the gardens of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick is now flowering a 
very remarkable and singular-looking Acacia ; particularly from its habit, having narrow leaves 
two or three inches long. The flowers are globular, similar to the other species in form, and are 
produced in abundance. When in good flower, the plant is both graceful and interesting, and 
certainly worth cultivation. 
Calomeria spe. nov. Avery useful plant of the Aster family, which blooms so late as September 
and October in the flower-garden, is decidedly an attraction. The individual flower perhaps may 
not come strictly within the notice of the florist, from its petals being thin and open, though it 
produces the bloom freely, is a delicate lilac colour, and about an inch and a half in diameter. 
In the nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, we found it beautifully in flower. 
Conradia floribunda. A new genus, evidently allied to the Gesnera family, is now in flower in 
the nursery of Messrs Knight and Perry, Chelsea. The plant is very neat and small, leaves the 
same, and of a varied and rich green, specimens having upwards of a dozen flowers expanded, not 
being above two mches high and four inches in diameter. The flower about an inch and a half 
long, of a deep though rich scarlet, shooting out from among the rich foliage makes it one of the 
prettiest little plants we have lately seen. 
Dipladenia nobilis. A handsome and graceful species lately developed its flower in the stove of 
Mr. Glendinning, Chiswick. The plant has a large hard woody tuber of a dark brown colour, 
two or three inches in diameter ; from the upper part or neck the shoots are produced, which after 
running three or four feet the flower spike makes its appearance, holding six or more blooms of a 
beautiful white, slightly tinged at the edges with a rosy pink. The colour of the throat is a 
