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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
FagRuE'a obova'ta, “An exceedingly handsome stove-plant, both as to its foliage and the 
large cream-coloured flowers, which, moreover, are very fragrant. It has been long cultivated in 
the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, plants having been sent by Dr. Wallich, from Sylhet, where, 
as at Singapore, according to the same botanist, it is a native. With us it has never blossomed. 
For flowering specimens I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Shepherd, of the Botanic Garden? 
Liverpool. It flourishes in a moist hot stove, and succeeds best with bottom-heat.” In its native 
country it grows to a moderate-sized tree, but grown in pots only attains the dimensions of a shrub 
five or six feet high. Its leaves are rather large, opposite, glabrous, as well as every part of the 
plant ; “ oval or sub-elliptic, more generally obovate.” 
Its flowers are large, cream-coloured, “ between campanulate and funnel-shaped, produced in 
terminal short sub-cymose” panicles. Bot. Mag. 4205. 
Gove'nia fascia'ta. The different species of this genus of Orchids are found very diffi- 
cult to distinguish, so much do they resemble each other. The present species was collected by Mr. 
Linden, in damp forests in Venezuela, 5000 feet above the sea. “ It is,” states Dr. Lindley, “ one 
of the prettiest of the genus, having clear yellow flowers, whose sepals and petals are beautifully 
marked by fine broken bands of crimson. The long bracts, thin narrow spike of flowers, and 
oblong, not ovate, lip, are the marks by which it is best recognised. The leaves are about a foot 
long, and three inches wide.” A terrestrial Orchid requires a stove, and a soil composed of 
three parts rough peat, and one of sandy loam, with an abundant supply of water when growing? 
to be gradually withheld as the plants approach a state of rest. Bot. Reg. 67. 
Habrotha'mnus corymbo'sus. “ A very handsome species of Habrothamnus, native of Mexico, 
sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Low, of Clapton, quite distinct from the H. fasciculatus , 
figured at Tab. 4183 of our present volume. It is everywhere glabrous, apparently a much taller 
plant, and with the corolla of a very different shape, widening upwards, and then suddenly con- 
tracted so as to have an urceolate tube ; and having the segments of the corolla much longer 
acuminated, and at length reflexed. Its growth appears to be much more rapid, and it is more 
easily cultivated, only requiring the protection of a greenhouse in the winter. In the summer it 
does best in the open air, and may readily be increased by cuttings, as far as can be judged from 
the Meyenia corymbosa of Schlechtendahl.” The plant forms an erect, much branched shrub, five 
or six feet high, with alternate ovate-lanceolate, in some parts crowded leaves ; the main branches 
producing copious, short, leafy ones, each of which terminate “ with a corymb of pretty deep rose- 
coloured flowers.” Bot. Mag. 4201. 
Hetn'sia Jasminiflo'ra. “ A very little-known shrub, from Western tropical Africa, presented 
to the Royal Gardens of Kew by the Earl of Derby, who imported it from Sierra Leone, through 
Mr. Whitfield. The only description we have of it is by De Candolle, in the Prodromus above 
quoted, where it is taken up from a specimen gathered by Smeathman, and deposited in the 
Herbarium of L’Heritier. It was named in compliment to the philologist Heinsius, translator 
of Theophrastus. The shrub has a good deal the appearance of a Gardenia , or Randia, with 
flowers shaped indeed something like those of a Jessamine, that is, salver-shaped, but very much 
larger — the segments of the corolla broad and singularly striated, and often puckered (in those 
respects much resembling the sepals of some species of Clematis , particularly Clematis viticella). 
It requires the heat of a stove, and has flowered with us in September.” A shrub of middling 
size, glabrous, with opposite, nearly erect branches, and opposite, almost sessile, narrow acuminate 
leaves. Flowers are produced terminally in threes or fours, their segments pure white, with a 
green tube. — Bot. Mag. 4027. 
Ipomce'a sim'plex. Sir W. J. Hooker writes, “ When the rounded, uncouth-looking tuber of 
this plant was presented to our Garden by the Earl of Derby, in 1 844, brought home from the 
eastern colonies of South Africa by Mr. Bender, we were not prepared for a cluster of such lovely 
flowers as appeared at the base of the stems in July, 1845. It is one of the Ipomoeeas that is best 
worth cultivating, for it only needs a small pot, placed in a greenhouse, and no trellis or apparatus 
to support the stems, which, at most, do not exceed a foot in length, and are clothed with long, 
slender, almost grass-like leaves. It is, however, difficult of increase.” The plant consists of a 
solitary tuber, from which grows slender stems from six inches to a foot long, woody at the base, 
where the flowers, which are large, fine, rose-coloured, are produced on short peduncles. — Bot. 
Mag. 4206. 
Las'lia peduncula'ris, Has several times flowered in the rich collection of Mr. Barker, of 
