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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR APRIL. 
Aristolo'chta giga'ntea. Sir W. Hooker, writing of this species, says : — " It is in reality a 
very striking and handsome flower, and rendered more worthy of cultivation in consequence of 
the absence of the horrid stench which will prevent the much larger blossoms of A . gigas, Lindl., 
from ever becoming favourite inmates of our stoves." It is a climber, with rather large, cordate, 
acute leaves, and flowers composed of a perianth very large, nine to ten inches long, if the curva- 
ture of the limb is taken into consideration. The tube is cream-white tinged with green ; the lower 
(pendent) half is oblong, inflated, obscurely veined, three-angled at the back, and having two pairs 
of oval depressions or glands at the base ; the tube thence becomes contracted, bent like a syphon, 
then enlarging and becoming excessively inflated on one (the anterior) side ; again it becomes 
contracted, and at once expands into the ample, singularly concave, almost conchiform limb, 
reticulated with veins, prominent on the outside, where it is cream-coloured, mottled with pale 
purple ; within, it is white, or nearly so, but the veins are purple, and the areolae sprinkled with 
purple ; the margin is waved, and is split down at the anterior edge ; the apex is tipped with an 
apiculus or short tail scarcely an inch long. Within, towards the mouth of the tube, the colour is 
much deeper, and of a more uniform purple." Bot. Mag., 4221. 
Ario'psis pelta v ta. " An extremely curious new genus of Aroidece, discovered by our friend 
J. S. Law, Esq., in the neighbourhood of his residence, Tanna, district of Bombay, and of which 
tubers were kindly sent by him to the Royal Gardens, where they flowered in August, 1845. It is 
one of the best marked and smallest of any genus of the Natural Order, and reminds one more of 
the growth of a Cyclamen than of an Aroideous plant. Ramusatia vivipara of Dr. Wright, Sir W. 
J. Hooker considers a synonyme." Bot. Mag., 4222. 
Aphela'ndra aurantia v ca. " Handsome as is the well-known Aphelandra cristata, the present 
species far exceeds it in the size and rich orange-colour of the spikes, and it possesses another 
advantage, in the flowers appearing upon small handsome-looking plants. We regret that we 
cannot add to the little information given by Dr. Lindley, respecting the history of this plant. 
Nothing certain is known of the country. It was presented by Mr. Henderson, of Pineapple- 
place, to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowered in the stove in the autumn of 1845, and 
where it made a very striking appearance." Bot. Mag., 4224. 
Ano'na palu'stris. A plant introduced to our gardens by Ph. Miller, in 1731, from the West 
Indies. It was long cultivated at Kew, but never flowered there. It was first flowered by Mrs. 
Sherbourne, of Hurst House, Prescott (a most successful cultivator of tropical fruits), in June, 
1843, in the stove ; and the fruit represented ripened in August, 1845. The chief value of the 
fruit consists in its beauty and rich fragrance, not being edible ; indeed by some it is said to be 
poisonous. It forms " a tree, six to fifteen feet in height, with ever-green, elliptic-ovate, very 
acute, glabrous leaves, or rather short petioles. Peduncles lateral, but not axillary, solitary, single- 
flowered. Calyx greenish-yellow, each with a red blotch within, deeper in the inner petals. 
Stamens and pistils numerous, crowded. Fruit ovato-rotundate, yellowish-brown when ripe, 
deep orange within, formed of a congeries of closely compact acini." Synonymes, A . glabra, 
A. aquatica, A. uliginosa. Bot. Mag., 4226. 
Bouva'rdia longiflo'ra. " Bouvardia is a Mexican genus of Rubiaceous plants, named by Mr. 
Salisbury in compliment to Dr. Charles Bouvard, who was formerly superintendent of the Jardin 
du Roi at Paris. In most of the species the flowers are small ; here they are large, pure, white, 
and exhaling a delicious Jessamine-like fragrance, whence it becomes a most desirable stove plant. 
We know not if any garden possesses this charming Bouvardia, save that of the Earl of Derb |, to 
whom I am indebted for the specimen here figured, and who received it from Ifzabol. It in- 
habits also Santa Anista, according to Humboldt, where it is called Flor de San Juan, and the 
vicinity of Queretaro and Huanajuato. My Herbarium possesses also native specimens from Mr. 
Skinner, gathered in Guatemala. In habit and form of corolla, this is closely allied to Hindsia ; 
