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oil obtained from it is so aromatic, that it would be in every respect of sufficient 
importance, to form an ingredient in the expensive preparation, used by the Jews in 
their tabernacle and temple worship. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE " BOTANICAL MAGAZINE " 
AND OTHER LEADING PERIODICALS FOR OCTOBER. 
Achimenes longiflora macrantha. This variety we noticed in Messrs. Lane's collection 
at Berkhampstead, the flower being considerably larger, of more substance, a better blue, and has 
a yellow eye. The habit is the same as A. longiflora. Along with the above we noticed another 
species, called — 
A. Candida. One of the smaller kinds, bearing a profusion of white blossoms, having a 
yellow mark down the lower petal. 
Anemone hybrtda. A fine variety raised from seed, by Mr. Gordon, in the Gardens of the Hor- 
ticultural Society, produced by crossing A. japonica with A. vitifolia. The advantage gained is the 
finer and broader petals than A. japonica, on the one part, and having a delicate rosy tinge in the 
flower, which its other parent does not possess, being quite white. The habit is between the two, 
and it flowers a month earlier than A. Japonica, is quite hardy, and a desirable plant for 
ornamenting the flower-garden. 
Chaetogastra strigosa. A melastomaceous plant of considerable merit, we found flowering 
luxuriantly in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter. It has small but very deep rose- 
coloured flowers, produced in clusters at the axils of the leaves, the latter being small. The plant 
appears to keep close to the ground ; useful among rockwork : it is very pretty, and will form an 
acquisition to our gardens. 
Dichorizandra ovata. In the above-named nursery we noticed a fine specimen in bloom of 
this species, with three or four spikes of those intense blue flowers, which render this plant so 
remarkable. We likewise noticed it in flower in the stove of Messrs. Knight and Perry, Chelsea. 
Epiphyllum coccineum grandiflorum. Recently we noticed in the gardens of Lady Antrobus, 
Cheam, a splendid flower, both for size and colour, being upwards of eight inches in diameter, 
and a rich scarlet with the purplish tinge at the base of the petals. The variety was raised by 
Mr. Green (her ladyship's gardener), from seed, produced by crossing E. speciosissimum and 
AcJcermanni, certainly the finest variety in cultivation. The habit of the plant is an union of both 
parents but like neither of them. 
Gloxinia, hybrid van We found flowering in Messrs. Henderson's Nursery, Pine-apple 
Place, Edgware Road, a remarkably fine variety both for size and purity of colour. It is white, 
with a dash of brilliant crimson down the throat and lower limb of the flower, is of good 
substance, well formed, and free from any undulations. The habit is that of 0. cerina. 
Hypocalymma robusta, A shrub of very prepossessing appearance we noticed in the green- 
house of G. Lorraine, Esq., Carshalton. It has much the appearance of a Spiraea, with clusters of 
rosy lilac flowers produced at the axils of the leaves, completely clothing the stem. The foliage 
neat ; most probably will become a very useful plant. 
Impatiens repens. This very distinct Balsam has flowered in the nursery of Mr. Jackson, 
Kingston ; bears bright yellow flowers, which no doubt will be produced pretty freely when its 
cultivation becomes better known. The habit is pendent, with small heart-shaped foliage. It was 
introduced by Mr. H. Low, of Clapton, from Ceylon. 
Ixora odoratissima. Messrs. Rollisson, Tooting, have recently flowered this species, its 
greatest merit being a most delicious perfume. The head of bloom is large, but loose and 
straggling, from the flowers being long and thin in the tube, so slight as scarcely able to sustain 
the weight of its minute flower. The prevailing colour is yellow, shading to the throat, which is 
white. The foliage is large and handsome ; some of the leaves measured fourteen inches long by 
four inches in breadth, and are of the richest green, 
