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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
MAY. 
Bom area acutifolia j var. punctata. A handsome variety of a plant better 
known as Alstroemeria acutifolia . It does not differ from the species, except in 
having yellow petals, which are slightly spotted, within its reddish sepals ; the 
habit being climbing, and the leaves broadly lanceolate. Its native country is 
also peculiar, T. Harris, Esq., of Kingsbury, having imported it from Caraccas, 
while the species is of Mexican origin. It blooms in clusters, from the ends of the 
shoots, during the latter part of the summer. Bot. Mag. 3871- 
Cobcea stipularis. Allied to the old C. scandens , and similarly remarkable 
for the rapidity of its growth, thus being well adapted for speedily covering a 
blank wall in the summer. Like C. scandens , it has large, bell-shaped, greenish- 
yellow flowers, which are stained with purple, and the chief feature about the 
leaves is that they are often found in the state of broad, kidney-shaped stipules. 
Mr. Hartweg introduced the species from Mexico to the Horticultural Society, in 
whose garden we observed it flowering last season. It succeeds as a half-hardy 
herbaceous plant, or conservatory climber, and may be either increased by cuttings, 
or treated as an annual, and multiplied by seeds in the spring. Bot. Beg. 25. 
Ccelogyne CtJMiNGii. One of the beautiful orchidaceous plants brought by Mr. 
Cuming from Sincapore to Messrs. Loddiges. To C. trinervis it is closely related, 
but that plant is 64 readily known by its very long, narrow leaves, its shorter 
bracts, smaller flowers, and much shorter middle lobe to the lip.” The pseudo- 
bulbs are small, the leaves in pairs at their summit, and five-nerved ; while the 
blossoms are produced sparingly on an erect raceme. They are white, and the lip 
has a lengthened intermediate lobe, which is yellow in the centre, and lias three 
elevated ridges, of which the middle one is the shortest. Bot. Reg. 29. 
Cr6cus Adamicus. Assigned, by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, to a section 
called annulatus , on account of the permanent rings which sheathe the base of the 
bulbs. It is a pretty purplish, or lilac -coloured species, with a yellow centre to its 
flowers, and bearing them early in the spring. Specimens were received at 
Spoffortli from Mr. Gay, who obtained it from Tauria. We believe it is perfectly 
hardy. Bot. Mag. 3868. 
H^manthus tenuifl5rus ; •oar. Mo/zambicensis. Described as a very splendid 
bulbous plant, producing, in the beginning of last April, “ upwards of a hundred 
flowers, the head becoming almost spherical, in the stove at Spofforth, where it had 
stood the whole year in a hot situation, having been left dry through the winter.” 
The bulb was imported from Mozambique to Rio Janeiro, from whence it was 
procured by the Hon. W. Fox Strangways, and forwarded to Spofforth. It is 
