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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR JULY. 
Aza x lea obtu x sa. An introduction of Mr. Fortune's, who sent it from Shangliae to the garden 
of the Horticultural Society, where it was received in the summer of 1844. The Journal of the 
Hort. Soc. has the following respecting it : — " This charming shrub may be regarded as the gayest 
of all the red Chinese Azaleas in cultivation. It is a little bush, with very blunt leaves, both 
smaller and narrower, in proportion, than we find upon the species already in our gardens, and also 
smaller flowers, of the most glowing red. The latter have uniformly five stamens only, the 
characteristic mark of the genus Azalea, and thus seem to show that the additional number hitherto 
remarked in the Chinese species is a mere result of cultivation. The segments of the corolla are 
nearly oval, and sharp-pointed ; the upper one is not much smaller than the others, and is faintly 
blotched with purple." — Bot. Reg., 37. 
Bego^nia alb'o-cocci'nea. " It has already been proposed to separate from Begonia the genus 
Eupetalum, founded on the B. petaloides figured at fol. 1757 of this work, and Biploclinium, distin- 
guished by its large double placentse. These are, however, mere indications of structure, and have 
yet to be applied to the great mass of species belonging to the order. We are ourselves without 
the leisure to prosecute the inquiry, and therefore we make no attempt, on the present occasion, 
to determine whether this may not be a species of Eupetalum ; but we republish it under the 
name already given it by Sir Wm. Hooker. It was first raised in the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, 
from seeds said to have been obtained from the East Indies (India), by a gentleman at Twick- 
enham, and has thence been extensively distributed. Few, if any, of the order excel it in 
brilliancy ; nor, indeed, is it easy to point out so lively a contrast of colour as that afforded by the 
vivid scarlet of the outside of its bivalve calyx, and the snowy interior of that organ and the 
petals." — Bot. Reg., 39. 
Ca'ttleya Lemonia v na. This Dr. Lindley considers a new and distinct species, but Mr. Booth 
the author of its specific name, gardener to Sir C. Lemon, Bart., thus speaks of it : — " That this is 
a variety of Cattleya labiata I think there can be no doubt, however different it may appear in the 
form and colour of its flowers, from those of the original species, and of the other varieties of it 
which have yet been published ; but it certainly does not appear to me to possess any peculiarity 
of sufficient importance to warrant its being kept specifically distinct, and I have therefore merely 
characterised it as a variety, and dedicated it to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M. P., already well 
known for his attachment to this singular tribe of plants, and who has the merit of first introducing 
it." It was imported from the Brazils in 1842, and first flowered in September of last year. — 
Bot. Reg , 35. 
Davie v sia piiyso^des. " A very singular species of the very pretty genus Davicsia, in habit, 
as Mr. Bentham well remarks, resembling Genista Scorpms ; but why named physodes by Mr. 
Cunningham is not apparent ; for (unless it be in the fruit, which is, however, not noticed by Mr. 
Cunningham) there is nothing inflated or bladdery about the plant. The whole is rigid and 
glaucous, the lower leaves often small and terete, the upper ones oblong and obliquely cuneate, so 
that the shape a good deal resembles a hatchet, more dilated at the upper angle, mucronate on the 
other, and marked with two nerves on each side. The flowers are exceedingly handsome, varie- 
gated with several colours — orange, red, green, and black, produced copiously on the branches ; and 
they continue a long time in perfection, so that the plant is highly ornamental to the greenhouse 
in the months of April and May. It is a native of Western Australia. The precise locality where 
Mr. Cunningham discovered it is not recorded ; but Mr. Drummond and Mr. Preiss have detected 
it in the Swan River settlement, and from seeds sent by the former of these two botanists our 
plants were reared, at the Royal Gardens of Kew." — Bot. Mag., 4244, 
Epa'cris du'bia. " When this plant was first sent to us by Mr. Jackson, Nurseryman, 
Kingston," Dr. Lindley writes, " we mistook it for C. heleronema, but the leaves are far narrower, 
are not merely slightly three-ribbed at the base, but plainly so throughout their whole length, and 
above all, they are terminated by a blunt callus, and not by a slender spine. Nor is it C, 
