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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Whitley and Brame. Flowers are produced on very small plants ; and under favourable 
circumstances it grows to a large size, continuing to flower vei’y freely. It has opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate leaves, and produces its flowers in terminal corymbs. Cerbera fruticosa and 
Calpicarpium Roxburghii, are synonymes. Bot. May., 4220. 
Lankeste v ria parviflo'ra. “ Lankesteria is a genus of Acanthads, allied to Eranthemum , 
from which it differs in the absence of sterile stamens, and in the capsule containing but two 
seeds.” It is a profuse flowering plant, with small ovate leaves, and bearing axillary and terminal 
clusters of bright yellow flowers, whose calyces are very long, of a brownish purple colour. 
Mr. Whitfield brought it from the west coast of Africa, where it is a native. Lankesteria is after 
Dr. Edwin Lankester, F.R.S., a gentleman of high attainments in a knowledge of botanical 
science. Bot. Reg., 12. 
Mulge'dium macrqrhi'zon. “ This, although its flowers are but those of Succory, is neverthe- 
less a charming perennial, with numerous trailing stems two feet long, and scarcely rising more 
than a few inches high. For decorating rock-work, it is unsurpassed among autumnal perennials.” 
It is a plant very impatient of moisture, is hardy, but requires keeping dry through the winter, to 
insure its preservation. It produces its blue flowers very freely in September and October, and 
“ was raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds received from Dr. Royle, and 
stated to have been collected in Cashmere or Thibet.” Bot. Reg., 17. 
Pterosti'gma grandiflo'rum. “ This is one of the new introductions by the Horticultural 
Society. It was received from Mr. Fortune, who described it as a blue-flowered herbaceous 
plant, growing on hill sides and near streams, on the island of Hong-Kong.” In a wild state it 
flowers very profusely, and is much more interesting than it has at present become under cultiva- 
tion. The description of it in the Journal of the Horticultural Society states, “It is a perennial, 
covered all over with slender spreading hairs. The stems are round, the leaves are opposite, 
stalked, ovate, crenated, very much marked with sunken veins, and deep green. The flowers, 
which are nearly as large as those of a Digitalis, and of the deep colour of Gloxinia viola, cea, grow 
singly in the axils of the leaves, than which they are considerably shorter.” It has sweet-scented 
leaves, and hitherto has been treated as a stove plant, but is expected to prove sufficiently hardy 
for the green-house. Syn. Gerardia glutinosa, and Digitalis chinensis. Bot. Reg., 1 6. 
Ru'ellia lilaci'na. In some instances bears the name of R. longiflora. e( It has been already 
figured in the “Botanical Magazine,” under the name of R. lilacina, but the specimen examined by 
Sir W. Hooker must have been in a weak unhealthy condition, for its flowers were axillary and sessile ; 
whereas, when the plant is really in a natural state, they are developed in panicled spikes whose 
stalks are longer than the leaves, as is shown in our figure. It is only then that the species acquires 
its natural beauty.” Bot. Reg., 13. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Anse'llia Africa'na. This beautiful and very rare plant has recently flowered in the Messrs. 
Loddiges’ collection. It is a native of Tropical Africa, and was found by Mr. Ansell, a gardener, 
in honour of whom it is named, and who found it growing on the Oil Palm, in the island of 
Fernando Po. Mr. Ansell went out with the Niger Expedition. The plant is rather robust 
growing ; its pseudo-bulbs are stem-like, closely sheathed, and indeed apparently composed of 
rather short lanceolate leaves. The flowers are borne in panicles, which are branched and 
drooping ; the sepals and petals about equal in size, prettily spotted, as well as the lips with light 
purple spots on a brown ground. 
Aphela'ndra ? A fine plant, supposed to be of this genus, is now, and has some time 
been flowering in the Nursery of the Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting. It is strong-growing, ha s 
large broadly-lanceolate opposite leaves, and bears a terminal spike of light crimson, labiate 
flowers. The spike is remarkably long, and continues producing in an extraordinary manner its 
rather small flowers successionally. 
Aza'lea a'lba magniflo'ra. A new seedling raised by Mr. Green, gardener to Sir C. 
Antrobus, Bart., and exhibited at a recent meeting of the Horticultural Society, Regent Street. 
It is a very promising variety ; its flowers are large, white, andjsome singularly marked with a 
streak of bright pink. It is very compact growing. A. violacea elegans, another good variety 
