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superior variety of an old greenhouse plant which is not without beauty when 
well cultivated, but is quite uninteresting when badly grown. The variety was 
received at Syon House, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, " from 
Captain Herbert, who obtained it on the Pampas of Buenos Ayres ; and it flowered 
in June last." Its peculiarity is in the greater dimensions of its showy yellow 
flowers, and in the branches having a drooping habit. It is a greenhouse plant, 
but probably hardier than many inhabitants of the greenhouse. Bot. Reg. 60. 
Kreysigia multifl5ra. " A very pretty half-hardy herbaceous plant, with 
the habit of StreptO'pus^ a native of the Illawara district in New South Wales, 
where it was discovered by the late Mr. Allan Cunningham, and introduced to the 
Hoyal Gardens at Kew in 1823. It bears its pleasing rose-coloured flowers in the 
summer months : they continue in perfection for some time, and are then succeeded 
by the somewhat pear-shaped fruits." Although the name is not given as a 
synonyme, we have no doubt this is the old Schelhammera multiflora^ a plant that 
will thrive in the open border around London, and requires only a trifling shelter 
in any locality. It has very little beauty. Bot. Mag. 3905. 
Lasiopetalum macrophyllum. An erect shrub, growing five feet in height 
and upwards, and having its branches, " especially the young twigs, closely covered 
with light-coloured tomentum, mixed with stellate rusty pubescence." The leaves 
are five to seven inches long, nearly three inches broad, ovate, green and hispid 
above, covered with white tomentum, mixed with rufous stellate pubescence 
below. The flowers are in corymbs, opposite the leaves, and have a large green- 
ish white calyx, with a minute purple corolla. It was derived from " New South 
Wales'* seeds, transmitted to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in July 1835, by 
the late Mr. Richard Cunningham. It has been kept in the greenhouse, and 
flowered freely for the first time in May, 1841." Bot. Mag. 3908. 
Prepi)sa hookeriAna. a very elegant herbaceous perennial, collected by 
Mr. Gardner in Brazil, and sent to the Botanic Gardens at Kew and Glasgow. 
The leaves are crowded, narrow, and spatulate, and the flower-stem grows from a 
foot to eighteen inches high. The calyx is very much inflated, apparently crimson 
on the upper side, and green underneath. The corolla is pale purple. It flowers 
in March and April, but has not yet bloomed in Britain. Mr. Gardner has dedi- 
cated it to his friend and patron Sir W. J. Hooker, of whose kindness and talents 
it will form an excellent memorial. Bot. Mag. 3909. 
NOTICES OF NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY IN FLOWER AT THE 
, PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Calanthe VERsf color. — Most probably the same species which has been called 
Cflavicans^ at Messrs. Hoilisson's, of Tooting, and which is now flowering both in 
this nursery, and at Mr. Knight's, Chelsea, The leaves are of the usual strong 
