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FLOmCULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR NOVEMBER. 
Aza'lea Ludovi'ci^. “Nothing can he prettier than the delicately-coloured flowers of this 
plant. Instead of a pale yellow or straw-colour being the prevailing colour, we have a gay, ^ 
rosy tint superadded. 
“ No one would have believed,” writes Dr. Lindley, “ upon slighter evidence than that of the 
Dean of Manchester, that such plants as have thus been figured were seedlings from the Pontic [i 
Rhododendron^ to which they bear no manner of resemblance ; and they teach us a lesson in | 
possibilities, which persons unacquainted with such facts will do well to recollect. If the common 
Pontic Rhododendron can by art, however applied, be compelled to bring forth a Pontic Azalea^ 
there remains no ground for regarding as impossible even such results as the production of Rye ill 
by Wheat or Barley, or of Plums from Pear trees.” Bot. Reg. 60. 
Ca'ttleva granulo'sa ; var. Russellia'na. “ Some fatality seems to have attended this 
beautiful plant in our gardens. It was sent to Sir W. J. Hooker, from Woburn, as a Brazilian 
Orchid ; but we can find no evidence to show that it is a native of even the Southern hemisphere. | 
At Syon, whence, by permission of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, our specimen was t 
supplied, it is said to have been received from Dr. Wallick, in 1839, which is probably another '■ 
mistake. There can be no doubt at least about its being in reality a very fine variety of the 
Guatemala C. granulosa, and its introduction may with good reason be referred to one of 
Mr. Skinner’s numerous importations. j. 
“ It is not surprising that it should have been referred to C. guttata ; for the old specific | 
character of the latter fits it very well. But if the figure of that species in the Horticultural I 
Transactions, vol. ii. t. viii., second series, be consulted, the difierence between the two will be 
manifest. 
“We suspect this plant to be more common in collections than is generally supposed, and that 
it stands in many places as a representative of C. guttata’^ Bot. Reg. 59. 
(Many beautiful varieties of C. granulosa have recently flowered in the Exotic Nursery.— See 
our Notices of “ New or interesting Plants recently flowered,”) &c. 
Dendro'bium kingia'num. “ This curious epiphyte was bought by the Messrs. Loddiges at 
the sale^of Mr. Bidwill’s New Holland plants, two or three years since. It has pseudo-bulbs 
between four and five inches long, tapered from an ovate base into a very long and narrow neck, 
on the top of which stand two oblong, emarginate, dark-green, rather wavy leaves. Between 
these is a flower-stalk having two or three pink flowers gaily spotted with crimson in the inside. 
On some of the offsets the number of leaves is four, but the prevailing number is two.”— 
Bot. Reg. ^l. 
Geni'sta {Teline) Spachia'na. “ This is a pleasing addition to the many-flowered and sweet- 
scented group of Canarian Genistce, which in early spring enliven the conservatory and green- 
house. Though a native of the Canaries, the present species was not taken up in the ‘ Phytographia 
Canariensis,’ forming part of the ‘ Hist. Nat. des lies Canaries,’ the author of that portion of the 
work not being able to decide on the specific value of the plant, owing to the incomplete specimens 
in fruit, but without flowers, which alone existed in his herbarium. It has now flowered from 
seeds sent by him formerly to Europe, both at Mr. Young’s nursery, at Milford, near Godalming, 
and at the Jardin du Hoi, at Paris. It has been named in honour of Mr. Edward Spach, assistant 
naturalist in the latter establishment, whose learning and acute observation have so much 
advanced the ‘ aimahle science.’ 
“ The G. {Teline) Spachiana, indigenous to the high mountains of the N. W. of Teneriflfe, will 
probably prove hardy in the climate of England. It existed for several years at Paris in the open 
ground, and was only destroyed by the cold of the late severe winter.” Bot. Mag. 4195. There 
is a great similarity between all the members of this family, and the present species does not form 
an exception. 
Hebecla'dus biflo'rus. “ A very pretty Solanaceous plant, with graceful drooping two- 
coloured blossoms; a native of the Andes of Peru, about Tarma, Canta, Culluay, «&c., according to 
