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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
It is a handsome species, of trailing habit, with ovate, obtuse, opposite leaves, bearing axillary an 
terminal pairs or clusters of flowers, which are large, and have a deep brownish calyx. They ar 
waxy red and curved, with a four-parted spreading limb, and a whitish blotch at their throa 
It promises to be a free flowerer. 
Barke'ria spes.— Mr. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park, had in his collec 
tion of Orchids , at the last Chiswick exhibition, a very elegant BarJceria, similar in foliage an 
growth to B, Lindleyana, and bearing, on a very slender stem, a spike of delicate lilac flowen 
whose sepals are oval and their petals broadly ovate, and slightly waved. The lip is similar i 
colour to the other parts of the flower, and is curiously folded back, and to appearance joinin 
together. It is a very graceful and charming species. 
BalsamTna spes. — Another importation of the Messrs. Yeitch’s. It is a native of Java, and i 
an open-branched plant of slender growth ; has fine lanceolate leaves, which are irregularly prc 
duced in pairs, or whorls of three and four leaves. The handsome flowers are borne on Ion 
peduncles, their large flat corolla, bright rose, deepest at the centre, and it has a long spur, i 
plant was exhibited at the recent Chiswick meeting. 
Campanula no'bilis. A species of Mr. Fortune’s introducing, a native of the North Provinc 
of China, quite hardy, and in general character like the Canterbury Bells, Campanula medic 
but according to its appearance when grown in a pot, much less strong ; it has long-petiole 
rough, heart-shaped leaves, and produces a rather slender spike of large bell-like flowers, which ar 
a brownish-lilac colour out but paler inside. It was produced from the garden of the Horticulture 
Society, at a meeting of that body in Regent Street. 
Cu'phea platyce'ntra. A plant bearing this name was exhibited at the June meeting of th 
Royal Botanic Society, Regent’s Park, by Mr. Smith, gardener to Joseph Anderson, Esq., th 
Holme, Regent’s Park. It was stated to have been received from South America, in 1845. 1 
is a straggling-growing, long-branched plant, with lanceolate opposite leaves and axillary flowers 
composed of a channelled scarlet tube, being at once the calyx and corolla. The singular! 
situated petals usually found in the members of this genus are not present in this species, bu 
where on the upper side of the mouth of the calyx they are usually attached, there is a blotch of : 
whitish colour. The mouth of the tube is fringed. 
Didymoca'rpus crinTtus. This species is one of the Messrs. Yeitch’s recent importations 
It was present from them, on the 2nd of June, at a meeting of the Horticultural Society, at thei 
Regent Street Rooms. It is a stove plant, with rather short much-wrinkled leaves, deep-greei 
above, and of a deep sanguineous hue beneath ; the flowers rise from among the leaves, which forn 
a compact cluster on the surface of the soil, and are solitary, supported on rather long peduncles 
They are tubular, and have a small divided limb, white, with a yellow streaked throat. It is ai 
interesting addition to the stove. 
Dendro'bium hyme'nophyllum. A species with slender, rather tall stems, bearing a shor 
droopmg raceme of small greenish flowers, having a long spur, but possessing no beauty. It wa 
present, from the same gentlemen, and at the same time as the preceding plant. 
Dichoriza'ndra ovalifo'lia. This plant was present at the last Chiswick exhibition. It i 
more strange-looking than beautiful, and consists of a strong upright stem, the upper part o 
which bears the broadly-lanceolate, sessile, dark-green leaves, the whole surmounted by a clos 
short spike of purple flowers. It was from the Messrs. Veitch’s. 
Helio'phila trTfida. A very pretty annual, another introduction of Mr. Fortune’s to th 
garden of the Horticultural Society, from whence it was sent to their rooms, Regent Street. It 
a very pretty glaucous, slender, much branching plant growing about a foot high, flowering mos 
freely, and having rather few, irregularly divided leaves, whose spreading segments are lineal 
The flowers are small, circular, blue, having white centres ; and are only expanded the earty 
portion of the day, closing about noon, and soon afterwards falling off. 
Ligu'strum japo'nica. The Messrs. Veitch have recently imported this species, which is 
beautiful hardy evergreen, with fine dark-green, ovate leaves, and compound racemes of whit 
fragrant flowers. A small plant was sent from Exeter to the last exhibition at Chiswick, whicl 
had two racemes of flowers. As a hardy ornamental evergreen, it is an acquisition, for a larg 
specimen in flower would be a beautiful object. 
Nepe'nthes spes. — A plant of this genus was brought to the June exhibition at Chiswick b, 
Mr. My lam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, which has something of the foliage an< 
