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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL 
PERIODICALS FOR DECEMBER. 
Anemone japonica. A native of damp woods on a mountain called Kijune, near Miako, in 
Japan, and was introduced to this country by Mr. Fortune. — Bot. Mag., 4341. For the particulars 
of this beautiful hardy plant, refer to Mag. Botany, vol. xiii., p. 20, and vol. xiv., t.|^25. 
Bolbophyllum hirtum. This curious plant has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. It produces 
a long drooping tail of small whitish flowers, having exactly the smell of Sweet Vernal Grass 
(Anthoxanthum odoratum). The sepals are thickly clothed with hairs, and have numerous purple 
oblong glands, especially on the edges. It is a native of the East Indies, where it grows on 
trees. — Bot. Reg., 66. 
Browallia speciosa. This new species of Browallia was discovered in the mountains of 
Tolima and Quindiu, by Mr. Purdie. The flowers are a deep purple, thrice the size of those of 
B. grandiflora. — Bot. Mag., 4339. 
Ch^nestes lanceolata. The seeds of a fine flowering specimen of this were sent by Mr. 
Purdie from the mountains of Quindiu, marked “ a very beautiful shrub ; ” and so it has proved. 
The young plants grew rapidly, and Avere planted out against a wail in the Royal Gardens, in the 
summer of 1847, where they blossomed and continued to produce their umbels of rich deep blue 
flowers till the cold of autumn injured them. — Bot. Mag., 4338. 
Cymbidium eburneum. The flowers of this charming East Indian Orchid are not only among 
the largest of the genus, but among the sweetest. They resemble, in fragrance, those of the 
Chinese Cymbid, than which nothing is more delicious ; and not a spot interferes with the pure 
ivoi*y- white petals, except one long yellow stripe along the middle of the lip. — Bot. Reg., 67. 
Exacum tetragonum bicolor. An East Indian plant, found by J. E. Law, Esq., growing 
profusely in the Coucan among long grass. The blossoms are highly ornamental, but as the plant 
is annual, it may prove difficult in some seasons to ripen the seeds. The flowers are produced in 
a cyme or panicle, and are purple and white. — Bot. Mag., 4340. 
Gardenia nitida. This is a perfectly new and most distinct species, possessing handsome, 
dark-green, glossy foliage ; flowers, among the larger of the genus, deliciously scented : the corolla 
is of the purest white, and the plant deserves a place in every stove. — Bot. Mag., 4343. 
Gesneria triflora. Tubers of this Gesneria were sent from New Grenada by Mr. Purdie, 
and flowering plants were in perfection in the Royal Gardens in the summer of 1847, continuing a 
long time in blossom. The flowers are by no means so copious as in the G. Hondensis, to which 
the species is in some respects allied ; but the corollas, and foliage too, are larger. — Bot. Mag., 4342. 
Gongora maculata tricolor, a most beautiful variety of G. maculata. The ground colour 
of every part of the flower, except the lip, is clear yellow ; the column and petals are delicately 
banded with rich sienna brown, and a feAv large clear distinct blotches of the same colour occur on 
the sepals. The lip itself is white, with a cinnamon stain on the ends of the lateral tubercles, and 
the sides of its upper half. — Bot. Reg., 69. 
Malachadenia clavata. a Rio plant, in the collection of Mr. Bateman, where it bloomed 
first in 1839. It is very singular, though it has little beauty to recommend it ; and Mr. Bateman 
remarks, that it is the only Epiphital Orchideous plant known, which emits a positive stench, and 
that too at all hours, by night and day. In the stove it resembles the foulest carrion. — 
Bot. Mag., 4334. 
Odontoglossum {Leucochilum) maxillare. A new Orchid, which might, when in flower, be 
mistaken at first sight for 0. Cervantesii. It is, however, readily known by its wingless column, 
and especially by the presence of a large yellow appendage, seated at the base of the lip, and 
scarcely shorter than the column. It is probably a native of Mexico. — Bot. Reg., 62. 
Oncidium amictum. a native of Brazil, whence it was received by Messrs. Loddiges, with 
whom it flowered in April, 1847. Its large yellow flowers, more or less spotted in many parts 
with rich brown, give it a very handsome appearance. — Bot. Reg., 66. 
