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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
slender, branched, and bearing an abundance of brilliant yellow flowers ; the sepals 
and petals of which are blotched with brown. The lip is large, slightly waved, of 
three rounded lobes, and deep yellow. Having been imported from Mexico by 
Mrs. Wray, of Cheltenham, it has been named in honour of that lady, w^ho is " one 
of the most intelligent and enthusiastic of cultivators." Bot, Mag, 3854. 
SoLANUM MACRANTHERUM. The oxteusivo geuus Solanum does not contain a 
handsomer plant than that now noticed. It is described as being "nearly allied to 
the Bitter-sweet of our hedges, but its flowers are very much larger and handsomer." 
Mr. Page, nurseryman, of Southampton, received the seeds from Mr. Parkinson, of 
Mexico, in July 1838 ; and although some of those germinated were lost by 
moisture, a plant flowered last year. In Mexico, it has a climbing habitude ; but 
the specimen above mentioned is only about three feet high, promising to be 
arborescent, and having large ovately- cordate downy leaves, with fine terminal 
panicles of reddish-purple flowers, conspicuous in the centre of which are the great 
yellow anthers. It is treated as a conservatory plant, and will probably thrive 
against an open wall as well as S. crispum. Bot. Reg. 7- 
SowERBiEA LAXiFLORA. This pretty product of the Swan River Colony bears 
some resemblance to S.juncea^ from which it difl'ers in having "paler and smaller 
flowers, the stalks of which are long and slender, and in the leaves being nearly as 
long as the scapes, and triangular, not tapering." It is not unlike an Allium in 
appearance, having narrow leaves, which are considerably elongated, and large 
umbels of neat pink flowers, with yellow stamens in the middle. It is a green- 
house herbaceous perennial, with roots not at all bulbous, and easily cultivated in 
the usual manner. Bot. Reg. 9. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS THAT HAVE RECENTLY FLOWERED 
IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Acacia biflora. A beautiful little species with somewhat oblique or one- 
sided leaves and showy globular flowers, which are of a deep yellow colour, and 
agreeably fragrant. It appears to have been introduced in the early part of the 
present century, but has probably been lost. From seeds imported by Mr. Low, 
of Clapton, from the Swan River settlement, it has lately been raised, and flowered 
profusely through the months of December and January, Several blossoms are yet 
expanded. 
Acacia platyptera. Another interesting addition to the genus, procured by 
the same gentleman from a similar source, and flowered in his nursery last November 
as well as at a more recent period. The name is aptly expressive of the very broad 
wing-like expansions on each side of the stems and branches ; these in its existing 
state answering the purpose of leaves, and being in fact substitutes. The flowers 
are large, round, orange-yellow, and handsome ; and when specimens of a greater 
size are obtained, the species will most likely bear a great profusion of them, Iii 
