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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Umbi'licus malacophy'llus. li A very remarkable succulent plant, native of mountain rocks! 
in Dahuria, and well calculated for cultivation in a dry, stony soil, or upon rock-work. It has 
been for some years grown in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, in the open border.” The 
leaves are of a broadly obovate form, very thick and fleshy, and of a pleasing green hue, tinged 
with purple. They are very closely tiled on a short stem. The flowers are disposed in a long 
cylindrical spike, six inches high, which springs from the summit of the thicldy-foliaged stem, 
Individually, they are uninteresting. The colour is greenish white. Bot. Mag. 4098. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS FLOWERING IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN NURSERIES 
AND GARDENS. 
Angulo'a. Another new species of this singular genus of Orchidaceous plants has recently 
produced blossoms in the stove of S. Rucker, Esq., of Wandsworth. The flowers are much 
handsomer than those of the one we noticed two months ago. Instead of the dingy yellowisl 
green hue of that species, the petals are white, or cream-coloured, and bend forward, approaching 
each other at their points. The lip has a slight tinge of clear pale yellow suffused in it. Th<j 
size and form of the flowers is very similar to those of A. Clowesii , and, like them, they do no 
rise very high, but stand singly at the end of a scaly peduncle, issuing from the base of th< 
pseudo-bulbs. The foliage of all the species is very large and handsome. Mr. Rucker wai 
indebted to Mr. Linden for the possession of this species also. 
Codono'psis lu'rida. In, the Himalayan range of mountains, the place of rambling Convoljj 
vulaceous plants is supplied with this and similar slender trailing species. The flowers are no 
strikingly handsome, having too much of a green colour to be sufficiently conspicuous amongs 
the foliage. They are widely bell-shaped, and have a nodding position. As they become olderj! 
they increase in interest, the lurid spots attaining a more distinct and a brighter character, am 
the green gradually becoming more pallid, especially towards the bottom of the flower, which 
eventually, changes to white. The stems are soft-wooded, clothed with neat, heart-shaped leaves 
and ramble to a great length in the course of a season. Cultivated in a warm greenhouse, the 
will be appropriately trained round a pillar, or under a rafter, or round a barrel-shaped trellis; 
It has been three or four years in the country, and is flowering in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society. ■ • 
Cosma'nthus fimbria'tus. This is a neat little half-hardy annual, with much of the habit an 
general appearance of a Nemophila. The flowers are arranged in a racemose style, and forr 
wide-spreading cups, neatly rounded and fringed at the margin. They have a very pale delicatjj 
blue colour, with a white centre. In a sheltered place it will make a pretty bed, but, if expose 
to strong winds, the stem and leaves turn brown, and have a decayed untidy appearance. It wi 
be acceptable grown in pots, to flower early in the greenhouse. W e saw it at Messrs, Rollisson 
Nursery, Tooting. ji 
Cu'phea strigillo'sa. A new species, exhibiting to a remarkable degree the effect of treat 
ment in the colour of its flowers. Grown in a stove, they are greenish yellow, and comparative! 
uninteresting ; but in the greenhouse, or open air, deepen to a rich Vermillion on the mos 
exposed surface, and gradually sink to yellow on the under side. They are much smaller tha 
those of C. Melvillii, but are copiously produced. Specimens were exhibited at the late show 1 
the Regent’s Park Botanic Gardens by Messrs. Pince and Co., of Exeter, and several plants wit 
much better coloured flowers, are now blooming in the nursery of Mr. Knight, at Chelsea. 
Cyrtoce'ros refle'xam. A cream-coloured umbel-flowering plant of the Asclepias tribe, wit 
a climbing habit and an excellent free blooming character, which has obtained the above gener 
name from the curved nectariferous horns, so prominent in the flower. Even when divested c 
flower, the plant has a decidedly superior appearance, being covered with fine, shining, and sow 
what coriaceous foliage, about the size and shape (excepting the articulation) of those of tl 
common orange tree. It is a tender plant, requiring stove culture, and being unable to suppo: 
itself, should be trained to a rafter or round a barrel-shaped trellis: in either of which situ; 
tions its pretty honey scented flowers will show to advantage. . J 
Dendro'bium am^e'num. Messrs. Rollisson have lately flowered a specimen of this beautif 
little plant. Though much smaller in its flowers to many of the specious members of the sair 
genus, it yet possesses sufficient merit to entitle it to rank amongst plants of interest. There is 
