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PLORICULTURAL NOTICES, 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAJ^ 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Tetrane'ma mexica'na. There can hardly be a more profuse blooming plant than the present 
it is in fact almost perpetually in flower. During the winter and spring months, if kept in 
stove, it makes a very engaging object ; and ought to be in the possession of every one who hal 
the conveniency for it. From its dwarf habit it requires little room, and may be managed like 
Gloxinia, except that it scarcely needs a season of repose. It possesses a close affinity with th 
Pentstemons ; and the flowers, though smaller, are not unlike those of P. argiita, either in fori 
or colour. 
Russe'lia floribu'nda. a shrubby plant with ovate crenate leaves, and producing axillar’ 
pendent Pentstemon-like flowers near the end of the shoots. Each flower is about an inch an 
a half long, and of a fine purple colour. It has flowered at the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, and ai 
some of the provincial establishments. It is said to be nearly hardy. By some nurseryman’ 
blunder this plant has acquired the name of Vassalia. I 
Achime'nes argyrosti'gma. We have given a notice of this novelty in a previous page, fror 
the “ Botanical Magazine,” and only wish to suggest here, that although certainly far inferior t 
any other member of the family it belongs to, yet nevertheless, it is not improbable that it migh 
become the parent of some highly interesting varieties, by fertilising its seeds with the pollen o 
some more showy species. We hope some of those who possess the plant will make th 
attempt. If the habit with the foliage of this, and the flowers even of the small A. coccinea 
could be combined, it would be a valuable achievement. A specimen far past its prime wa 
exhibited at the Horticultural Society’s Rooms in Regent Street, from the Kew Gardens, wherj 
we noticed plants of it a short time before, in a more perfect and much prettier state. Wheij; 
well-cultivated in large patches in pans, it will at least be interesting for its handsome silverj 
dotted foliage. ! 
iEcHME'A fu'lgens. A Specimen of this handsome Bromeliaceous plant is flowering a| 
Messrs. Rollisson’s Nursery, Tooting. The substance, form, and arrangement of the foliage 
gives the plant something of the aspect of a miniature pine-apple. But the florescence i 
the most remarkable. The flowers appear on a stem which issues from the centre of the tuft o[f 
leaves, and are arranged in a spicate form, the whole appearing of a brilliant coral red witl] 
violet points. It is a magnificent, and by no means a common plant yet, although it has been iii 
the country between two and three years. || 
Barle'ria ? A pretty upright-growing Acanth with erect branches slightly swollen af 
the nodes, clothed with oblong leaves on long footstalks, and with terminal spikes of handsonn^ 
violet-blue flowers of considerable size, and mostly turning in the same direction. It is an Eas| 
Indian plant obtained by Messrs. Henderson of Pine-apple Place, who exhibited a specimen aji 
the Regent Street meeting in the beginning of August. It seems likely to flower in successioif 
for a considerable time. j| 
Besle'ria pulche'lla. a prettily-marked, but not very showy flower. It is a Gesneriaceouijl 
plant, with strong thick stems, and large ovate foliage much wrinkled on the surface, and of | 
lively green. We have noticed it in flower for some months at the Pine-apple Place Nursery| 
The flowers are rather small for the plant, and only developed a few at a time ; their colour i| 
an orange-yellow, streaked with red. jl 
Bu'ddlea Lindleya'na. The plant lately issued from the Garden of the Horticultural Societj- 
under this name, has recently flowered in the large conservatory there, and proves a very prett| 
thing, though the blossoms are not large. It is one of the products of Mr. Fortune’s Botanicaj| 
Mission to China. Grown in pots it has a rather loose habit, but it loses much of this whe^ 
planted out of doors in a border. The flowers are arranged in secund racemes from four to si>l 
inches long, and perhaps longer. The corolla consists of a long curved tube, with a rich viole| 
four-cleft spreading border. Specimens left in a border through the last winter, were killeJ 
down to the root ; but have made strong shoots since the spring. 
Da'is cotinifo'lia. One of those old plants now almost confined to Botanic or old establishecj 
Gardens, but which well deserves to rank amongst showy greenhouse productions. It is ajj 
shrub from the Cape of Good Hope, with much of the general aspect of a Pimelea. A specimer? 
at Kew was lately covered with its fine showy heads of rich pink flowers. 
