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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Liebigia. It is a native of Java, and has been recently received from thence by the above gentle- 
men ; is an erect-growing, hairy, soft-wooded stove plant, with large, opposite, ovate-acuminate 
leaves, producing flowers at almost every axil of the latter. The flowers come in great abundance, 
are borne on short pedicels growing in twos and threes and upwards, from the end of a rather 
longer peduncle, and have a widely tubular, approaching funnel-shaped, corolla, with a spreading 
white limb, sulphur-coloured throat, and light purple tube. Two varieties were present ; one a 
cut specimen, with darker-tubed flowers than the other. It is a striking thing, in consequence of 
the discrepancy between the size of the flowers and leaves, and the opposite colours residing in 
each flower. 
Lanta'na mu n tabilis. Very few may be aware how excellent a flower-garden plant this is ; 
therefore we here take an opportunity of directing attention to it as such. It is usually cultivated 
in the stove, and growing in its border, or in pots, it is a very pretty lively -looking thing, but 
not at all comparable with what it becomes when planted in the open ground ; there, in peat earth 
or the ordinary soil of the parterre, it grows from a foot to eighteen inches high, and laterally as 
much as could be desired; gets very close and bushy, and produces its heads of flowers in immense 
profusion ; the latter, from the varying colours each exhibits, creates, especially when the sun is 
shining upon them, a more charming effect than can be imagined — quite equal to, and more 
interesting than, any other plant with inflorescence of similar colours. To the flower-garden, then, 
either as a mass in the parterre, or as a border plant, L. mutabilis is indispensable ; we were not 
aware that such is the case till a recent visit to an establishment in the neighbourhood of London 
convinced us. Lantana Sellowiana, too often standing about gardens as if it had no suitable 
station, has long been familiar to us as equal to any Verbena in point of hardiness, habit, and 
production of bloom (except that it does not throw up such large trusses), for the purpose in 
question, and no doubt other species will do equally well in the open ground. In trying any 
there it should be remembered they ought not to be translated direct from the stove, and that a 
little preparation of soil will be greatly in their favour. L Sellowiana is beautifully adapted for 
trailing over rockwork, and, in common with similar plants, has this valuable property - that it 
continues, when growing out of doors, to increase in beauty up to the period of its destruction by 
frost, instead of ceasing to display it, as do many perennials at the close of summer weather. 
Passiflo v ra Lemiche'zii. Bearing this name, a very handsome Passiflora has bloomed in a 
stove at Messrs. Rollissons'. It may be said to be a very superior edition of P. Kermesina, as it 
has leaves like those of that species in shape, but thrice their size and not of the same hue under- 
neath, and flowers wholly larger, whose petals are similar, though deeper in colour than P. Ker- 
7)tesina , s. The ray approaches that of P. fragrans. Its habit is vigorous, and it is a free bloomer. 
Raphiste'mma pulche'lla. In one of their stoves, the Messrs. Knight and Perry have 
flowered this fine climber. It is a fit associate for the well-known beautiful Stephanotis floribunda, 
from whose flowers those of this plant do not materially differ in colour, size, or shape ; they are, 
however, larger, and each segment of the limb of the corolla has a pink mark down its centre. 
The flowers are borne in rather large racemes from the axils of the leaves, are not very numerous 
on each raceme, but the racemes come in abundance. It is a smooth, rather slender-growing 
plant, with opposite cordate taper-pointed leaves ; bears generally the above name, but Pergularia 
campanulata is another it is known by. 
