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specimens were imported by Mr. Whitfield. It is perhaps the finest of its noble race, and is, we 
trust, worthy of the name which we have ventured to confer upon it. Handsome as Lord 
Derby’s Gardenia certainly is, it is as far removed from this as an earldom from a dukedom. 
The flowers are nearly eleven inches long, pure white at first, but after a time changing to a light 
straw-colour, and look much like those of a huge white lily.”— Bot. Reg., 63. 
Leschenau'ltia arcu'ata. “ A singular and truly handsome species of Lesclienaultia, 
B exceedingly different from every other known one, having copious, spreading, decurved branches, 
with innumerable branchlets, almost every one of which is terminated with a large red-purple and 
yellow flower. Raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., at their extensive nursery, Exeter, 
from Swan-River seeds, sent by Mr. Drummond. It is a greenhouse plant, and noble samples 
were communicated by the cultivator, from which our figure is made. The flowers have a good 
deal the appearance of those of the large shrubby Polygalse of South Africa, but here they are 
exceedingly numerous upon a small plant. Flowers in August. Mr. Drummond has long ago 
sent home copious dried specimens of the species.” — Bot. Mag., 4265. 
Scutella'ria incarna'ta. “From the rich collection of the Exotic Nursery of Messrs. Veitcli, 
who received the seeds from Professor N. Jameson, of Quito, gathered on the western declivities 
of the Andes. It is a greenhouse plant, and being readily increased by cuttings, will doubtless be 
a great ornament to our flower-borders, if an entire bed is devoted to it. Flowers in July and 
August.” An erect-growing plant, reaching a foot or a foot and a half high, with slender opposite 
branches, and opposite ovate or ovate-lanceolate leaves, bearing terminal, many-flowered racemes, 
the corollas of whose flowers are deep purplish rose-colour. — Bot. Mag., 4268. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Bego'nia fuchsioi'des. Singular as it may appear, this plant is appropriately named, and 
probably as much resembles a Fuchsia in appearance as a Begonia can do. It grows tall, has 
slender, partially red, and rather pendent branches, which throw out numberless alternate 
branchlets, that, in their turn, bear alternate, oblique-lanceolate, smooth leaves. Terminally from 
its branches and most robust branchlets, proceeds the rich scarlet, very pretty, drooping flowers. 
Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, sent a specimen to the last meeting of the Horticultural Society in 
Regent Street. 
Clerode'ndron. With the above plant was a member of this genus, a native of Java, with 
large, broadly-lanceolate, black-green, opposite leaves, bearing from every axil of the latter a large 
panicle of flowers, whose principal feature is a whitish, rather small, four or five-cleft corolla, 
darkest coloured at the base. The flowers are slightly fragrant, and are produced in such num- 
berless quantities as to constitute as a whole, with the leaves, quite a pyramid of inflorescence and 
foliage. 
Hoy'a. Mr. Glendening of the Chiswick Nursery, exhibited at the November Regent Street 
meeting of the Horticultural Society, a New Holland species of Hoya , having opposite, oval- 
oblong, fine leaves, and bearing rather large axillary clusters of smallish white flowers, which were 
not fully expanded. 
S L^'lia PerrTnii ma'jor. In one of the Orchid-houses at the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, a 
Lcelia bearing this name has flowered. It is altogether larger than L. Perrinii, with more slender 
and much longer pseudo-bulbs, more highly-coloured flowers, and a differently-formed lip, that 
has its lateral lobes meeting above the column, so as to form, in conjunction with the middle one, 
a large oblong mouth, whose edge is marked all round, in the way the margin of the petals of a 
Picotee are, with light purple. 
Onci'dium ungui'culatum. This Orchid is an importation through some of the many Orchid 
sales that have of late taken place in London. When blooming, it is rather a naked-looking 
species, but bears fine large flowers. Its pseudo-bulbs are oval, two or three inches long, and its 
leaves about a foot in length. From the former ascends the flower-scapes, several feet, bearing 
numerous flowers scattered over their branches, that have yellowish, spotted with brown, sepals 
and petals, and a large, bright, clear, yellow, tliree-lobed, long-clawed lip. G. B. Warner, Esq., 
exhibited a fine specimen in flower at a recent Regent Street meeting of the Horticultural Society ; 
and the Messrs. Henderson, of Pine- Apple Place, have flowered it. 
