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NEW, EAEE AND DESIEABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
IMPATIENS HAWKERII, 
A more lovely flowering plant than this new species it would he difticult to imagine. It is a 
native of tho South Sea Islands where it was discovered by Lieutenant Hawker. The sharply serrate 
loaves are elliptic acuminate. The maimificent flowers are very large, flatly expanded, and of the 
most brilliant rich deep cannine colom-, tliis is relieved by a lustrous bluish tinge round the 
small white eye ; the dorsal sepal is roundish and the two lateral lobes oblong and bilobed, the spur 
is red and about two inches long. The handsome flowers of this superb new Impatiens are produced 
in the greatest profusion from March until October, the plant is of free growth and of good habit, 
and cannot fail to become one of the most useful of dei'orutive plants, os. and 7«. G/i. 
