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flower-garden, to shield this pretty plant from the 
brisk western gales we not unfrequently experience 
in the midst of summer. The best specimen we 
have yet seen of it, and the best state we have yet 
met with it in, is at the Pine-apple Place Nursery, 
where a plant that has been growing out of doors 
the greater part of summer, trained erect, and 
supported by flower sticks, has become a branching 
specimen four feet high, and displaying its very 
pretty corymbs, of ruddy lilac blossoms, in tolerable 
profusion. 
The plant in question, which is growing in com- 
mon garden soil, appears likely to seed freely, and 
its caulescence has attained an unusual degree of 
vigour, some of the stems being of a greater cir- 
cumference than the pen-holder in our hand. 
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE BOTANICAL 
PERIODICALS. 
Aristolochia macradenia. Large glanduled Birth- 
wort. This curious plant flowered in a warm green- 
house of the Royal Gardens of Kew, in the spring of 
1849, and had bloomed the year before with John 
Taylor, Esq., of Sheffield House, Kensington, which 
latter gentleman imported it from Real del Monte. It 
is one of the most remarkable and distinct of the many 
species of the genus. It may be grown in a pot kept in the 
stove, and is propagated by cuttings. — Bot. Mag., 4467. 
Cyrtanthera aurantiaca. Orange-Jiowered Cyr- 
tanthera. This fine species was introduced to Messrs. 
Henderson's of Pine-apple Place, from Belgium, under 
the name of Calcostylis aurantiaca, but nothing is 
known of its native locality or original introduction. It 
is a stove plant, and requires to be grown in a mode- 
rately small pot ; it is well always to keep a succession 
of young plants, as it is apt to become naked and un- 
sightly after flowering. — Bot. Mag., 4468. 
Pentstemon cyananthus. Azwe-jlowered Pent- 
stemon. A most beautiful blue-flowering perennial kind, 
bearing a spike of bloom more than a foot long. It is 
an inhabitant of the upper valleys of the Plate River, 
in the Rocky Mountains, where seeds were collected by 
Mr. Burke. These seeds were reared by Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, and Co., in whose nursery, at Exeter, 
the plants flowered beautifully, in the open air, in May, 
1849. The species is doubtless quite hardy, and a great 
acquisition to our flower borders. It is desirable to have 
a succession of young plants always on hand, which may 
be raised by cuttings early in the summer, and which 
should be sheltered in a frame during the winter, but 
with as much exposure as the weather will allow. — Bot. 
Mag., 4464. 
RouPELLiA GRATA. Cream-fruit. A very handsome 
and very fragrant plant of tropical Africa, noticed by 
Afzelius as the Cream-fruit, so called, we presume, from 
the use occasionally made of the cream-like juice of the 
fruit, but of which little seems to be known beyond the 
bare mention of it under that name. It is a native of 
Sierra Leone (introduced to our stoves, we believe, by 
Mr. Whitfield), and in May, 1849, flowered in the col- 
lection of Mrs. Halford, of Newcourt, near Exeter. If 
the plant comes into genei'al cultivation, it cannot fail to 
be much prized, if not for the fruit, yet assuredly for the 
size, beauty, and fragrance of the flowers. The habit of 
the plant is climbuig, and requires to be grown in a 
warm moist stove, and is propagated by cuttings. — Bot. 
Mag., 4466. 
Sauromatium guttatum. Spotted Sauromatium. 
A very remarkable Arodeous plant, native of the East 
Indies, where it is probably not uncommon. Dr. Wallich 
detected it in Nepal, Blume in Java. Roots were sent to 
the Kew Gardens by Mr. Law, of Tanna, in Bombay, in 
1848, which flowered in the spring of 1849. The flower 
is yellow-green, thickly spotted with reddish-purple. The 
tubers lie dormant during the dry season, coming quickly 
into flower and leaf on receiving the stimulus of moisture. 
It requires the heat of the stove. — Bot. Mag., 4465. 
SiDA (Abutilon) vEi^osuM. Veiny-petalled Sida. 
A large greenhouse shrub, introduced to England by 
way of Belgium, perhaps a native of South Brazil. The 
blossoms are large, of a golden orange-colour, richly 
veined and reticulated with brown, and exceedingly 
handsome. It requires a greenhouse or conservatory, and 
should be planted out in a prepared border of any good 
garden-loam, mixed with a httle leaf-mould or sandy 
peat-soil.— .Soi. Mag., 4463. 
