NEW PLANTS. 
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PASSIFLORA (ASTROPHEA) GLAUCA. 
This extremely interesting plant is the only living representative yet introduced of a shrnbby 
or tree Passion Flower. It has erect rigid stems, with no tendrils, and hence is a plant totally 
unlike any of the scandent members of the family. It was found near the edge of the Great 
Guayaquelian Plain, between Loxa and Santa F6 do Bogota ; and Mr. Cross, who brought living 
specimens to this country, describes it as a plant mostly found growing with a single stem, and 
with beautifully smooth dark green leaves, each of which is from 2 to 3 feet in length, and 
assuming a drooping or weeping character — so much so, that, at a short distance, the plant, in its 
native habitat, looks almost exactly like a green umbrella stuck in the ground. Some of the plants were 
found only a foot high, but the greatest number ranged from 1 to 3 feet in height, although in the 
damp forest some were occasionally seen drawn up to a height of 10 or 12 feet. Tho flowers are 
similar to those of an ordinary Passion Flower, but rather larger ; the filamentous portion white, 
the oentre orange. The fruit is oval, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, of a very pale yellow colour, 
but covered, from its earliest stage, with a beautiful glaucous bloom. This plant can be cultivated 
in an ordinary stove, and, being found at an elevation of upwards of 6,000 feet above the sea, it 
will doubtless also thrive well in a warm greenhouse. 
From its large and rich glaucous foliage, this remarkable, new, and singular species is always a 
striking plant when not in blossom. 
Price 16s. each. 
NEW STROBILANTHI. 
Thcso now additions to our temperate Flora have been collected by that eminent botanist 
Dr. Anderson, on the Sikkim hills, at elevations of from 5,000 to 10,000 feet, and therefore succeed 
admirably in greenhouses and cool conservatories. 
They belong to what is horticulturally known as the soft-wooded section ; in general habit and 
growth some of them partake much of the character of the Petunia, belonging, however, to the 
Acanthaceae. 
STROBILANTHES DIVARICATTJS, a small shrub, with tortuose-flexuose branches, and pale 
tumid articulated nodes ; leaves oblong-acuminate, serrated, and from 3 to 4 inches long, with 
pretty azure blue flowers on one-sided spikes. This plant has been found also in the temperate 
Himalayan forest, at elevations of from 6,000 to 10,000 feet. 5s. 
STROBILANTHES INFLATUS. This plant belongs to tho yoldfussia section of Strobilanthi, 
and has very pretty blue and white flowers. Its leaves are lanceolate, usually more or less 
pubescent, and about two inches long; corolla with a very short tube and large limb, concave 
y above, and much inflated below. It is found in Sikkim, at elevations of from 5,000 to 8,000 
feet. 5s. 
STROBILANTHES PECTINATTJS, a dwarf shrub, with deep green oblong serrated setose 
leaves, and handsome blue and white flowers, in somewhat lax elongated spikes. It is abundant 
in the Sikkim Himalayas, at altitudes of from 5,000 to 7,000 feet. 5s. 
STROBILANTHES SECUNDTJS, large and robust growing ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, smooth, 
and, on the under surface, of a dark red colour; flowers yellow and purplish brown, and pro- 
duced in terminal flowered spikes. 5s. 
TECOMA MIRABILIS. 
A neat-growing climber, producing abundant racemes of handsome orange coloured blossoms. It 
has been introduced from Queensland, and is therefore well suited for cool conservatories and 
greenhouses. 
Price Is. 6d. 
