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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Ruellia lilacina. Presented by Mr. Glendinning to the Botanic Gardens at Kew, where 
receives stove culture. Nothing is known of its native country. Its fine dark and glos, 
foliage, with large full lilac flowers, which are produced from time to time during the greall 
part of the summer months, renders it well worthy of a place in the hot-house.” At Kew it font 
a branching shrub between two and three feet high, with ovate, bluntly acuminate leaves, a„ 
axillary flowers, consisting of a long curved funnel-shaped tube, and a spreading five-cleft limb ‘ 
a purple lilac colour, and traversed with veins. Bot. Mag., 4147. 
Spathogloitis I’ortuni. “ One of the first plants which Mr. Fortune met with, on ti 
granitic mountains of Hong Kong, was this pretty little Bletia-WkQ plant. Some conns which ,i 
sent home in his first despatch to the Chiswick Garden, produced flowers, which lasted 
upwards of a month.” Like the Bletias, it has thin plaited leaves, and fleshy tubers or corr| 
which lie dormant for some months after the foliage has disappeared. The genus, indeed, diffi'l 
from Bletia principally in having the middle lobe of the lip stalked, with some deep plates at l|i 
base, and in its anther having but two cells instead of eight. The flowers are produced near l| 
summit of a scape, about a foot or eighteen inches long, and are of a pretty yellow colour, i 
interior portion of the side lobes of the lip being spotted with brownish crimson. The sepals ai 
petals are broad, and spread out equally, forming with the lip a very compact flower. It appeiji 
that the genus contains three other species very similar to this in their general appearance ai 
yellow flowers — S. puhescens from the Sylhet mountains, at Prome, and on the Avan mountiji 
called Tong Dong ; another from the Khoseea-hills, which Dr. Lindley calls S. parviflora, a'l 
the third, called S. tomentosa by the same botanist, was gathered by Mr. Cuming on Mindan.f 
in the province of Miscamis, with as many as twenty flowers in a raceme. If any are possess(;i 
of a Manilla Spathogloitis resembling S. plicata or Paxlonia rosea in herbage, they wot. 
do well to take care of it, for it may be this S. tomentosa, which seems to be really a fine thin|’ 
Bot. Reg., 19. 
Whitfie'ldia lateri'tia. a fine Acanth, with brick-coloured flowers opening in the winf' 
months. It has copious evergreen foliage, and makes a desirable stove plant. Blossoms h4 
been produced abundantly on plants at Knowsley and Kew. Bot. Mag., 4155. 5 
Came'llia japo'nica, rar. Low’s Jubilee. We notice this new seedling chiefly on accoi|, 
of the enormous size of the flowers— in this respect they rival those of C. reticulata (beingjl; 
five inches in diameter), and excel it in the form, arrangement, and number of the petals, whil 
are tinted with a fine, delicate blush-pink, and, for the most part, have a small streak of a deejj|' 
hue down the middle. It was raised and flowered in Mr. Low’s nursery at Clapton. Amq; 
other seedlings flowering in the same collection, there is one of considerable merit, remarka| 
for its broad leaves, and their very prominent venations. It is called “ centifolia ” (Low’s), I 
allusion to the resemblance of its rosy-crimson flow'^ers to the cabbage-rose. 
Erioste'mon interme'dium. Messrs. Henderson have a small plant flowering in a grei 
house at the Pine-apple Place Nursery, which was received some time ago from the Continij; 
with the name here applied. It is a stout-growing plant, with handsome, oblong, lance-shat, 
foliage, and large pale blush-coloured blossoms. The habit is intermediate betwf > 
E. cuspidatum and E. bnxifolium, inclining more to the latter. 
Fu CHSiA serratifo'lia. a newly introduced species of great beauty, with long, tubu ' 
flowers, of a shaded carmine hue, the points of the calyx divisions of a very bright grass gre 
and the corolla consisting of rich scarlet petals. The blossoms are axillary. In habit it appei ' 
to be a rather stout plant ; the leaves are large, obovate, with a drawn out point, and a satiii 
looking surface. Messi’s. Veitch and Sons received it from their collector at Muna in Peru. 
Porphyroco'me lanceola'ta. At the first April meeting of the Horticultural Society, a n ' 
plant, sent from the Kew Gardens, was exhibited under this title. It is evidently closely relai 
to Aplielandra, and is a very pretty stove shrub, with long, drooping leaves, and pale vioi 
blossoms emerging from a terminal spicate cluster of crisped reddish-coloured bracts. ! 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLT 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
