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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
numerous, papilionaceous, and showy. The seed-pods are remarkably hairy. It 
will obviously be a desirable acquisition to our greenhouses. 
Johnsonia hirta. "Without exhibiting any peculiarly striking feature, 
there is an air of simple grace and beauty about this little plant which is extremely 
pleasing. Deprived of the flowers, it is a grass-like species, not very dissimilar to 
some kinds of Stylidium. Its leaves are long, narrow, hairy, and radical, all 
diverging from a common base around the flower-stem. The blossoms are elevated 
on a slender peduncle, from four to six inches long, being there aggregated into 
small heads, of which the most conspicuous portion is the pretty pink bracts or 
involucres. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Acacia oxyceprus. We were much gratified by encountering this valuable 
plant a few days since at the nursery of Messrs. Chandler, Vauxhall. It first 
appeared in Britain about the year 1824 ; but there is now scarcely another com- 
mercial collection that contains specimens of it, notwithstanding that it is, in 
several points, the most ornamental of the very showy genus to which it belongs. 
The leaves greatly resemble those of Araucarias, the habit is symmetrical and 
compact, and the flowers, which are pale yellow, are arranged closely in cylindrical 
spikes of nearly two inches in length. The current notion that only old plants of 
this species produce flowers, is a most decided mistake ; for the plant to which 
these remarks refer, is not more than a foot high, and bears large quantities of 
blossoms. It cannot be too highly praised, as its unquestionable beauty, and the 
season at which its inflorescence is unfolded, fully justify and corroborate our 
laudation. 
Acanthophippium striatum. This exceedingly modest and agreeable orchi- 
daceous plant is just blooming beautifully in Messrs. Loddiges' extensive establish- 
ment. It has the habitude of A. bicolor, and the pseudo-bulbs and leaves are 
similar in form, but it is much smaller in every member. The flowers, however, 
most thoroughly distinguish it. These are of a delicate transparent white, with 
several pleasing parallel streaks of light purple down the sepals and petals. The 
lip of this genus is of a most elegant and admirable construction, being attached to 
the centre of the flower by a very narrow ligament, which expands into a cucullate 
covering above the summit of the column, and is ultimately again elongated into a 
prettily painted lobe, which is longer or shorter according to the species. In A. 
striatum this is broad, acute, and richly as well as very liberally mottled with purple. 
It is rather remarkable that while the bracts of this plant are larger than the sepals, 
they are similarly and almost as richly coloured. 
Acanthophippium sylhetense. Like the preceding plant, this is a native of 
eastern India, from whence, indeed, it derives its name, and is at present flowering 
