NEW PLANTS. 
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ht np by the bright yellow of the anthers, whose filaments are adnate for some distanee from the 
base. In some of the jilants the Uowers are of a rosy pink colour. It is a most charming little green- 
house bulb, flowering in the spring months simultaneously with the leaves. A First Class Certifi- 
ca 6 was awarded to it, under the name of GastroHemaJlammeu7n, by the Floral Committee, on the 
IGth of February last. 7«. Gil. 
. , GLADIOLUS CRUENTUS. 
A very beautiful and entirely novel species of this popular genus, introduced from Natal. It is 
no on y a very showy plant, but also one of a very distinct character, and is an acquisition for the 
ower garden, on account of its vigorous habit of growth, and large brilliantly coloured flowers, 
produces a tall scape, 2 feet high or upwards, furnished with long flag-like glaucous leaves, nearly 
an inch w,de, the scape terminating in a distichous spike of large broadly-oampanulate subringent 
owers o a bright blood red colour, the upper segments uniformly coloured, and the lower smaller 
ones cimiison at the base and scarlet at the apex. The two lateral segments of the lower lip are 
marbled about half way down with a white zone dotted with crimson, which on the exterior edge 
runs out into a long point, like the flame of the florists’ Tulip. This distinct species has been 
figured both in the Botanical Magazine, and in the Florist and Fomologist. 15 j. 
GOODYERA DAWSONIANA ATROViRIDIS. 
Jiis variety differs from the type, only in having the ground colour of the leaves of a deep sap 
green, the metallic reticulations being confined to the spaces between the central ribs. The green 
CO our contrasts strongly with the olive hue of the typical plant in the young leaves whilst unrolling, 
ma 'es a nice variety in its class, and has the merit of possessing the vigour of its parent. 
Among variegated stove Orchids it is a desirable variety, 15i. 
GOODYERA DAWSONIANA PICTA. 
Goofhjera Bawsoniana, sometimes called Anaactoohilus, one of the best and most 
vigorous growing of the variegated dwarf stove Orchids, varies somewhat in the markings of its 
rich olive brown velvety leaves. In the ordinary form the centre only is reticulated with the 
bright coppery veins, while the spaces between the lateral nerves is plain or nearly so. In the 
piosent vaiiety the whole surface is finely marked with the metallic reticulations, which gives the 
leaf a much richer appearance. Mr. W. B. has been very successful in importing this beautiful 
Orchid, and possesses a fine stock of it. 10^. 6^. each ; 4 guineas per dozen. 
HELICONIA VINOSA. 
A handsome Musaoeous stove plant, introduced from N6w Grenada. It is of Canna-like habit, 
with large oroadly oblong leaves, a foot and a half or more in length, sharp-pointed, bright green 
above, and stained of a purplish wine red beneath. The upper surface is transversely plicate or 
iidgod, in consequence of the prominence of the veins, which start nearly at a right angle, and 
curve away towards the edge. The costa is of a pale yellowish green on the upper surface, and 
sunk, but reddish aud prominent beneath. The plant has the aspect of a dwarf Musa, with tho 
slender greenish pseudo-stem somewhat compressed. 2 guineas, 
JONESIA DECLINATA. 
This splendid and elegant ornamental stove plant, a close ally of the beautiful Asoca of India, is 
itself a native of Java and Sumatra. It has pinnate leaves consisting of from six to eight pairs of 
oblong leaflets, which in their young state assume a beautiful roddisli tint, and impai't to the plant 
a finely variegated effect, almost equal to that of a mass of flowers. The flowers themselves grow 
in fascicled panicles, and are of a yellowish orange colour, and exceedingly ornamental, 
1 guinea. . _ 
LIBONIA PENRHOSIENSIS. 
A very elegant shrubby stove plant, obtained by crossing Libonia Jloribunda with SericographU 
Ghieshreghtiatia. It has much brighter and deeper coloured flowers thau its parent, aud the leaves 
are more acute. It is an exceedingly useful decorative plant, freely producing its line showy 
flowers, which are of a bright rich orimsou colour, passing into fiery red. It blooms in the most 
profuse manner in the depth of winter, and, being easily cultivated, is a most desirable plant, 
7s. Qd, 
MACKAYA BELLA. 
This most beautiful Acanthaoeous plant is a native of the bed of the Tongat river, Natal. It is a 
tall, slender, nearly glabrous shrub, with virgate branches. The corolla of the flower is nearly 2 
inches long, pale lilac, the throat ornamented with most delicately pencilled reticulated purple 
veins, tubular below, companulate upwards, with a deeply five-lobed spreading limb. The plant is 
very floriferous, and when in full bloom, appears a mass of most delicate, pendent, pale lilac, 
campanulate flowers. This charming plant has been beautifnlly figxired in the Botanical Magazine^ 
Tab. 5,797. 7s. Gd. 
