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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
NOVEMBER. 
Barringtonia racem6sa. Of this most noble plant, a specimen bloomed in 
the stove of Charles Horsfall, Esq., Liverpool, in September 1839. It was 
imported from Bombay when only a foot high, and in three years' time had grown 
to the height of eight feet, with a perfectly simple stem. At this period it began 
to branch, and simultaneously developed a drooping raceme of flowers, twenty-eight 
inches long. The blossoms are neither large nor very showy, and would have little 
interest but for the great quantity of stamens, which have crimson filaments, and 
yellow anthers. The leaves are particularly fine, being obovately lanceolate, and 
about fifteen inches long and five broad. If it should hereafter produce a raceme 
of flowers from each branch, and continue ramifying, it will unquestionably make 
a splendid feature in the stove. Bot. Mag. 3831. 
Calectasia cyanea. Few of the plants of South-western Australia can at all 
be compared with this delightful species for the beauty of the blossoms. Mr. 
Brown first discovered it between Cape Lewin and Bass' Straits ; and it has lately 
been received at Glasgow from King George's Sound, collected by Mr. Baxter, and 
from other persons. It forms a low branching shrub, not much unlike a 
Dracophyllum in its habit and foliage, and bearing a profusion of light purple 
flowers, which have a bunch of conspicuous orange stamens in the centre. It is a 
very valuable little greenhouse plant, not only for the rich hues of its blossoms, but 
because " the form and colour of both leaves and flowers is truly of that kind called 
everlasting" Sir W. J. Hooker expresses a hope, in which we warmly concur, 
that amongst the numerous importations now made from the Swan River colony 
and other Australian districts, this lovely plant may be freely imported, and 
afterwards abundantly cultivated. Bot. Mag. 3834. 
Delphinium dec5rum. Mr. Cameron, curator of the Birmingham Botanic 
Garden, raised this pretty species from seeds communicated by Dr. Fischer 
of St. Petersburg!!, and flowered it in June last. Its native country is New 
California, near the Russian settlement at Port Bodega. According to the figure, 
both the sepals and spur of the flowers are covered externally with prominent hairs ; 
and the interior segment is also still more hairy. " In the specimens sent from 
Birmingham, the leaves were uniformly three-lobed, with the intermediate division 
ovate or oblong, acute and undivided ; while the lateral divisions, placed at right 
angles to it, were often two-lobed, and sometimes divided into several secondary 
segments in the posterior lobe." It is in the foliage that the chief distinction rests ; 
the flowers being at first of a bluish violet, and subsequently violet purple. Bot. 
Reg. 64. 
