142 FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
It is a handsome species, of trailing habit, with ovate, obtuse, opposite leaves, bearing axillary and I 
terminal pairs or clusters of flowers, which are large, and have a deep brownish calyx. They are 
waxy red and curved, with a four-parted spreading limb, and a whitish blotch at their throat. 
It promises to be a free flowerer. 
Barke'ria spes. — Mr. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park, had in his collec- 
tion of Orchids, at the last Chiswick exhibition, a very elegant JBarlceria, similar in foliage and 
growth to B, I/indleyana, and bearing, on a very slender stem, a spike of delicate lilac flowers, 
whose sepals are oval and their petals broadly ovate, and slightly waved. The lip is similar in 
colour to the other parts of the flower, and is curiously folded back, and to appearance joining 
together. It is a very graceful and charming species. 
Balsam'ina spes. — Another importation of the Messrs. Veitch's. It is a native of Java, and is 
an open-branched plant of slender growth ; has fine lanceolate leaves, which are irregularly pro- 
duced in pairs, or whorls of three and four leaves. The handsome flowers are borne on long 
peduncles, their large fiat corolla, bright rose, deepest at the centre, and it has a long spur. A 
plant was exhibited at the recent Chiswick meeting. 
Campanula no'bilis. A species of Mr. Fortune's introducing, a native of the North Province 
of China, quite hardy, and in general character like the Canterbury Bells, Campanula media, 
but according to its appearance when grown in a pot, much less strong ; it has long-petioled 
rough, heart-shaped leaves, and produces a rather slender spike of large bell-like flowers, which are 
a brownish-lilac colour out but paler inside. It was produced from the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, at a meeting of that body in Regent Street. 
Cu'phea platyce'ntra. A plant bearing this name was exhibited at the June meeting of the 
Royal Botanic Society, Regent's Park, by Mr. Smith, gardener to Joseph Anderson, Esq., the 
Holme, Regent's Park. It was stated to have been received from South America, in 1845. It 
is a straggling-growing, long-branched plant, with lanceolate opposite leaves and axillary flowers, 
composed of a channelled scarlet tube, being at once the calyx and corolla. The singularly 
situated petals usually found in the members of this genus are not present in this species, but 
where on the upper side of the mouth of the calyx they are usually attached, there is a blotch of a 
whitish colour. The mouth of the tube is fringed. 
Didymoca'rpus crini'tus. This species is one of the Messrs. Veitch's recent importations. 
It was present from them, on the 2nd of June, at a meeting of the Horticultural Society, at their 
Regent Street Rooms. It is a stove plant, with rather short much-wrinkled leaves, deep-green 
above, and of a deep sanguineous hue beneath ; the flowers rise from among the leaves, which form 
a compact cluster on the surface of the soil, and are solitary, supported on rather long peduncles. 
They are tubular, and have a small divided limb, white, with a yellow streaked throat. It is an 
interesting addition to the stove. 
Dendro'bium hyme'nophyllum. A species with slender, rather tall stems, bearing a short 
drooping raceme of small greenish flowers, having a long spur, but possessing no beauty. It was 
present, from the same gentlemen, and at the same time as the preceding plant. 
Dichoriza'ndra ovalifo'lia. This plant was present at the last Chiswick exhibition. It is 
more strange-looking than beautiful, and consists of a strong upright stem, the upper part of 
which bears the broadly-lanceolate, sessile, dark-green leaves, the whole surmounted by a close 
short spike of purple flowers. It was from the Messrs. Veitch's. 
Helio'phila tri'fida. A very pretty annual, another introduction of Mr. Fortune's to the 
garden of the Horticultural Society, from whence it was sent to their rooms, Regent Street. It is 
a very pretty glaucous, slender, much branching plant growing about a foot high, flowering most 
freely, and having rather few, irregularly divided leaves, whose spreading segments are linear. 
The flowers are small, circular, blue, having white centres ; and are only expanded the early 
portion of the day, closing about noon, and soon afterwards falling off. 
Ligu'strum japo'nica. The Messrs. Veitch have recently imported this species, which is a 
beautiful hardy evergreen, with fine dark-green, ovate leaves, and compound racemes of white 
fragrant flowers. A small plant was sent from Exeter to the last exhibition at Chiswick, which 
had two racemes of flowers. As a hardy ornamental evergreen, it is an acquisition, for a large 
specimen in flower would be a beautiful object. 
Nepe'nthes spes. — A plant of this genus was brought to the June exhibition at Chiswick by 
Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, which has something of the foliage and 
