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are succeeded by large yellow scentless flowers, which grow singly from the buds formed in the 
axils of the leaves that have previously dropped. The limb of their corolla is about an inch in 
diameter, and divided into six broad, oblong, blunt, flat segments.” It is expected to prove quite 
hardy. — Bot. Beg., 48. 
Leschena'ultia splen'dens. “ The splendid colour of the flowers of this plant is only to be 
compared with that of the Verbena melindres. Seeds of it were sent to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 
and Co., by Mr. James Drummond, and those excellent cultivators have succeeded in rearing 
flowering plants in their nursery at Exeter, and of two varieties : one which we consider the type 
i of the species, with broader segments to the corolla, and flowers in a corymb ; the other with 
i nearly, but by no means constantly, solitary flowers, and broader segments to the corolla, which, 
moreover, is of a deeper, but not so bright a scarlet. In the colour of the blossoms this species 
approaches the well-known L. formosa; but that has an orange hue, and the two anterior segments 
j of the corolla are small and acute, and the larger segments are bent back on the short tube. In 
i the foliage, and in the general structure and size of the corolla, indeed, our plants resemble the 
L. biloba, but the bright-blue flowers of the latter, the shorter tube, and the much more hairy 
corolla, will distinguish it from that ; while from L. laricina, of Dr. Lindley, it may be recognised 
by the leaves, by no means closely imbricated, and by the relative length of the segments of the 
corolla with the tube.” — Bot. Mag., 4256. 
Li'lium sangui'neum. u This is said to be a plant of Japanese origin, and if so, it is no doubt 
one of the discoveries of Siebold, but we find no record of it in books. It is remarkable for its 
dwarfness, not growing more than twelve or eighteen inches high, and for the vivid colour of its 
: large, solitary, orange-red flower. It might be supposed to be a variety of L. Thunbergianum, but 
that plant has a tall hairy stem, bearing several flowers of a large size, with much shorter stamens, 
and a less brilliant colour. The divisions of the flower are, moreover, very distinctly stalked, 
which brings the species nearer to L. philadelphicum, from which it is clearly distinguished by its 
upper leaves not being distinctly verticillate, and by its great woolly honey-furrow.” — Bot. Reg., 50. 
O'phrys cornu'ta. u This curious little plant has long been known as an inhabitant of the 
Crimea, and it had been recently discovered in Dalmatia by Baron Welden, in Hungary by 
Nentwich, and in Macedonia by Frivaldsky. But it remained for the Dean of Manchester to give 
it a more Southern locality, by detecting in Corfu the specimens now figured. The markings of 
the lip are very singular, but variable, as will be seen from the two sorts in our plate ; and it 
I would seem that this variation goes further, for Griesbach describes the Roumelian form with a 
greenish calyx, yellow spots in the middle of the lip, and blue horns.” 0 . bicornis and oestrifera 
are Synonymes. — Bot. Reg., 52. 
Talau ma Cando'llii. “ A very charming shrub, whether its foliage or its flowers, or the 
fragrance of the blossoms be considered. It is a native of Java, and the reforerequires the heat of 
the stove, where it flowers annually about the month of June. When in perfection, the flowers 
are a cream-colour, and more or less connivent, but they soon become tawny and more expanded.” 
This plant grows, “ as cultivated in pots, four to five feet high ; in its native country attaining a 
height of fifteen feet. Its leaves are alternate, from seven inches to a foot long, according to 
Blume, ovate-oblong, petiolate, acuminate at both extremities, entire dark green above, pale 
beneath.” — Synonymes, Magnolia odoratissima and pumila. — Bot. Mag., 4251. 
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NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Agno'stus sinua'ta. This handsome evergreen, as such only, up to within this month or 
so, it has been known to any one, will probably be familiar to many of our readers ; a good number 
of collections possessing it. To those who are unacquainted with the plant we may describe it as 
a woody, erect, rather strong-growing tree, a native of New Holland, where it was discovered by 
A. Cunningham, who gave it the above provision alname, and whence it is recorded to have been 
introduced to this country, in 1830, attaining various dimensions in our greenhouses; in some 
