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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
It is easily increased either by seeds or cuttings, grows freely in any rich garden soil, and flowel 
abundantly from July to September. The flowers are orange and pale purple. It requires tit 
protection of the greenhouse during the winter. — Bot. Reg. , 32. 
Cleisostoma spicatum. A Borneo plant, exhibited by Messrs. Rollissons, at the last meetii 
of the Horticultural Society. The leaves are large and broad, the flowers red and yellow, in sho 
oblong spikes. — Bot. Reg., 32. 
Collania dulcis. Said to be a native of Huallay, near Pasco, in Peru, at a height of fro 
twelve or fourteen thousand feet above the sea, and to be called by the country people Campanill 
coloradas. The stems grow about a foot high, and the purple and green flowers are produced 
the termination. If kept in the greenhouse nearly dry after its stalks decay, it will shoot again 
April, and after standing out of doors, plunged in a sand bed, during the summer, it flowers 
October or as late as December. — Bot. Reg., 34. 
Epidendrum plicatum. This fine species has been introduced from Cuba, by Messrs. Loddige 
with whom it flowered last January. It is remarkable for the petals, which are green insid 
with a few purplish stains near the point, being of a deep rich violet on the outside. The sepal 
are greenish, stained with dull purple on both sides. The lip is of a very rich purple. — Be 
Reg., 35. 
Gardenia malleifera. Sir William Hooker’s first knowledge of this fine plant, with its larg 
white, fragrant flowers (not unlike the odour of primroses), and extraordinarily large and clappe 
shaped stigma, so large and so heavy, that it rests, as it were, on the lower side of the flower, wl 
from dried specimens sent by Miss Turner, daughter of the then Governor of Sierra Leone. T1 
introduction of living specimens is due to Mr. Whitfield, who collected for the Right Hon. the Ea 
of Derby, to whose stoves at Knowsley, this and many other plants of rare beauty were introduce 
in 1843. This species loves heat and moisture, and, planted in a good sized pot, with a mixtui 
of heath mould and loam, makes rapid progress, and begins to flower when only two or thre 
feet high. It would seem in its native country to form a large shrub. — Bot. Mag., 4307. 
Henfreya scandens. The climbing habit of this plant is an unusual feature in the order 1 
which it belongs, probably nearly related to Thonning’s Ruellia quaterna, another West Africa! 
climbing plant, with white flowers. This species seems to be common at Sierra Leone ; it will 
found there by Mr. George Don, and also by Mr. Whitfield, the latter of whom introduced it in 
living state. Amongst the numerous plants of climbing habit which adorn our] stoves, llenfrey 
scandens is assuredly a subject deserving our notice. Under the most liberal and satisfactory cultivr 
tion, it never ranges beyond proper limits. Its foliage is not subject to injury, being also dark greei 
coriaceous, and permanent, contrasting admirably with the delicate, white, Petunia-like flower,' 
which are produced in the utmost abundance in racemes, at the angle of every leaf, continuing t 
throw out a succession of bloom for several months. — Bot. Reg., 31. 
Ipomcea pulchella. A very handsome stove Bindweed, which flowered with Mrs. Sherborne 
near Prescott, Lancashire, the seeds having been received by that lady from Ceylon. It is identica: 
with C. heptaphyllus of Roxburgh, and C. bellus of Spr. JSyst. Veget. — Bot. Mag., 4305. 
Megaclinium velutinum. — An Orchidaceous plant, nearly related to \M.falcatum, from which ii 
lateral sepals, velvety inside, distinguish it. The flowers are deep purple, as well as rachis, excepj 
the upper sepals and petals, which are dull yellow. Messrs. Loddiges imported it from Cape Coas 
Castle. — Bot. Reg., 32. 
Solanum jasminoides. This very pretty climbing plant seems to vary in the colour of its flower? 
When we figured it in the Mag. Bot., vol. viii. to v., the specimen from which our drawing wa 
made, produced in a Camellia-house, was pale blue ; in the Garden of the Horticultural Society 
where it is trained against a south wall in the open air, its flowers are nearly white ; in both state 
it is a great ornament. — Bot. Reg., 33. 
Thibaudia pulcpierrima. Imagine a branch four feet and a half long, dividing only at the tol 
in from four to six rather short, leafy ramuli ; the leaves evergreen, six to eight inches long ; thi; 
old, long, and woody portion of the stem throwing out, on one side, numerous crowded clusters 
or drooping sessile umbels, of from twelve to twenty blossoms in each umbel, and in all states o 
progress, from the early buds, when they, as well as the pedicels, are scarlet, variegated with paL 
but bright green, to the fully expanded corollas, an inch long, narrowly campanulate, of ai 
oehraceous red, veined and chequered (something like the flower of the Frilillaria Mclagris) witl 
