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flowers, ancl the calyx striped green and white, together with the white base of the calyx, and the 
peculiar contraction there, are characteristic of the present species.” The petals are numerous, 
white, and the “stamens and stigmas yellow.” — Bot. Mag., 4257. 
Plero'ma e'legans. u A plant of great beauty, with copious, glossy, strongly-nerved foliage, 
and flowers of a large size, and a peculiarly splendid colour, to the rich velvety purple of whose 
hue no pencil can do justice. It is a native of the Organ Mountains, growing at an elevation of 
4500 feet, where it was first detected by Mr. Gardner (n. 405 of his collection), and subsequently 
by Mr. W. Lobb, who sent it to Mr. Veitch. In that gentleman’s nursery, at Exeter, it bore its 
splendid blossoms in June, 1846.” — Bot. Mag., 4262. 
Pilu'mna la'xa. “ This new and very distinct genus of Orchids has been hitherto known 
only from the account given of it in the miscellaneous matter of this work for 1844, at No. 74, 
where, speaking of the present species, it is remarked that its general appearance may be under- 
stood by its having been mistaken for a Trichopilia. Its flowers are produced in loose, erect 
I racemes, out of broad, obtuse, short membranous spotted bracts. The stalks and ovary are an 
inch-and-a-half long ; the latter with three very stout and strong ribs. The sepals and petals are 
a pale watery green, erect, linear-lanceolate, equal, faintly tinged with purple. The lip is cream- 
colour, rolled round the column at the base, to which it is also united at the lower end. The 
column has a singular fringed hood, overlying the anther, and a nearly vertical stigma closed in 
by fleshy inflected cheeks. In these circumstances it differs from Aspasia, to which the genus is 
nearly akin.” Discovered in the woods of Popayan, by Mr. Hartweg, and flowered in the garden 
I of the Horticultural Society, in the autumn of 1845.— Bot. Reg., 57. 
NEW OR, INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Achime'nes formo'sa. A charming plant, in all respects similar to A. coccinea and rosea, except 
in the colour of its flowers, which are much deeper and more vivid in their prevailing hue than 
those of the latter, and have at their throat small, rich, brownish markings. It has flowered with 
the Messrs. Rollisson, and has, we believe, been received by them from the Continent. 
iVciiSiA serratifo'lia. The majority of those who have grown this Fuchsia have found it is 
not so free to flower as other species and varieties, and such defect has been regarded as disposi- 
tional ; it is not, however, the case, which was proved by specimens exhibited at the Regent Street 
Rooms of the Horticultural Society. In the course of the season, both large and small have been 
sent, loaded with flowers ; the latter so late as the beginning of October. The shyness in question 
is attributable to the course of culture applied to it having been of too stimulating a nature. 
Gesne'ra corda'ta. A very strong-growing species, wholly very woolly ; has large, opposite, 
cordate, bluntly-serrated leaves, and bears its flowers in a terminal, leafy panicle of great size. 
The flowers are the shape of those of G. Cooperi and allied species, and a very pale, clear, scarlet 
colour. It has flowered in a stove at the Exotic Nursery, and is a fine thing. 
Griffi'nia interme'dia. This stove plant differs from its near ally, G. hyacvnthina, in being 
altogether more slender, having narrower leaves and longer flowers, but fewer of them in the 
umbel ; the segments of the corolla are more narrow, and their colours much paler, though they 
are arranged in a similar manner. It has flowered in the Tooting Nursery. 
Hoy'a campanula'ta. This is a somewhat slender-branched climber, differing much from its 
congeners in having larger flowers and not at all fleshy leaves ; the latter are rather distant, 
opposite, ovate-acuminate, and dark green. The flowers grow from the axils of the leaves, on 
slender peduncles, in considerable quantities, have a corolla more than half an inch in diameter, 
bell-shaped, shining, wax-like, greenish -yellow, or cream coloured. The specimen under notice, 
sent from Exeter by Messrs. Veitch, to the October meeting of the Horticultural Society in Regent 
Street, was not large, and did not evidence a free flowering disposition ; but that is not much 
criterion of what the species, which has been recently introduced by Messrs. Veitch, may do when 
it has been longer under the influence of cultivation. It is an interesting plant. 
Lie'bigia specio'sa. As Tromsdorffia speciosa, this plant was sent, in September, to the Regent 
Street Rooms of the Horticultural Society, by Messrs. Veitch. De Candolle gives it the name of 
