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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Gloxi'nia tubiflo'ra. “ This beautiful thing was raised in the Glasnevin gardens, from seeds 
received from Mr. Tweedie, of Buenos Ayres. Sir W. Hooker, however, suggests that it is 
I’eally a native either of South Brazil or Paraguay. It is a charming greenhouse plant ; its 
lovely snow-white flowers being very agreeably scented.” It is “so unlike the Gloxinias of our 
gardens (with the exception of G. hirsuta, or indeed the Brazilian G. gracilis^ which more 
resembles it), that it can hardly be regarded as a genuine species of the genus, to which its naked 
inflorescence is much opposed.” “ It cannot be a Gesnera because its corolla is only pi’otuberant 
on one side, and because its anthers hold together when old ; it cannot be an Aclnmenes because 
its anthers are joined together, and it has not a ring round the ovary ; therefore it would appear 
that it must be a Gloxinia. And so Sir W. Hooker has considered it, observing, however, that 
it ^ seems to have nearly as strong a claim to be considered a Gesnera as a Gloxinia, or rather it 
appears almost to unite the two genera,’ ” An essential feature in the management of this plant 
is, to be careful to drain the pots well, and to choose a soil of such a texture that it may neither 
permit water to pass too quickly through it, nor yet retain it too long, by settling into a solid 
mass. A fair supply of water is needful to acquire vigour and maintain health, but any impedi- 
ment to its circulation is destructive of both. Bot. Reg., 3. 
IxioLi'niON monta'num. “ This long-desired and very ornamental plant was sent to SpofForth 
by the kindness of J. Cartwright, Esq. He received it at Constantinople from Colonel Sliiek, 
who with equal kindness exerted himself to discover it, where it was found, on the hills in the 
neighbourhood of Teheran. The bulbs are very remarkable, looking rather like large nuts with 
a dark chocolate-coloured smooth coat. When they are ready to vegetate, the fibres prepare to 
burst out at bottom with the same appearance as those of a tulip. The plants are perfectly 
hardy ; for having produced leaf in the autumn, and their growth having been encouraged by the 
unusual mildness of the first portion of the winter, they were not in the least discoloured by the 
snow and the very severe frosts of February ; and having flowered beautifully in May and June 
they perfected good seed in July. Whether or not it will be better to take up the bulbs to 
be dried in summer and reset them in autumn, is not yet ascertained ; but it will probably not 
be necessary. Its native region extends from Syria to the southern part of Songaria. The 
flowers are purplish blue, and nearly two inches from the tip of one segment to the tip of the 
opposite one. It is the Amaryllis montana of Redoute and the A. tatarica of Pallas. Bot. Reg., 66. 
Lapla'cea sbmi-serra'ta. According to Martius, this plant forms a tree thirty or forty feet 
in height, in Brazil. St. Hilaire speaks of it as a moderate-sized tree, or sometimes a mere 
branching shrub. “ Whatever be its size in its native country, it is quite certain that in our 
stoves it flowers readily in the autumn, when not more than a foot high ; and recommends itself 
by its handsome tea-like evergreen foliage, even more than by its large, delicate white flowers. 
Mr. Gardner gathered it at Goyaz.” The name Laplacea was bestowed on the genus by 
Humboldt, in compliment to Laplace, a distinguished philosopher and mathematician. Bot. 
Mag., 4129. 
Li'lium Thomsonia'num. The handsome half-hardy Lily, to which this name has been 
appropriated, is in the possession of the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, “ with whom it opened 
its sweet-scented flowers in a greenhouse, in April, 1844. It is a native of Mussooree, one of the 
northern provinces of British India. It was first seen by the people employed by Dr. Wallich, 
w'ho regarded it as a Lily. Professor Royle afterwards referred it to Frittilaria ; but its floral 
leaves have not the honey-pore, which is essential to that genus. In fact, it is far too near in 
structure to the common white Lily to allow of its being distinguished generieally. Its delicate 
rose-coloured flowers offer, however, a very marked feature of distinction.” The representation 
given of this plant in Dr. Rojle’s Illustrations of Himalayan Botany, has the flowers fully 
Wice the size of those produced on Messrs. Loddiges’ specimen. This difference may, perhaps, 
be reconciled by the la,tter being grown in a pot, and not perfectly healthy at the time the 
blossoms expanded. It should be treated on the same plan as the Japan Lilies to realise the 
extent of its ornamental capabilities. Bot. Reg., 1. 
Lucu'lia Pincia'na. Beautiful as the L. gratissima undoubtedly is, when producing its 
clusters of fragi-ant and delicately soft-looking pink blossoms, yet the present species is said to 
possess each of these powerfully attractive attributes in a far more exalted degree, and to unite 
with them yet another claim to popular esteem, in the superior magnitude both of the individual 
