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NEW PLANTS. 
C/ESALPINIA SPLENDENS. 
This exceedingly handsome plant lias been introduced from Western Africa; it surpasses in beauty 
the far-famed Poinciana Oilliesi , the flowers are produced in large racemes, glossy yellow, with 
bright red stamens : in habit it is very elegant ; leaves deep green, bipinnate, upwards of twelve 
jugate, with from twenty to thirty pairs of leaflets. 
Price 155. and 21 8. each. 
DALEA MUTISI. 
This elegant plant has been introduced from the Cordilleras of South America. In its native 
country it flowers freely at a height varying from G inches to 2& or 3 feet, and here, cultivated 
specimens have flowered at 1 foot to 18 inches high. The plant is of erect and somewhat slender 
growth, very much resembling in its general aspect some of the smaller-growing Indigoferas. Its 
reddish brown stems branch freely, are clothed with imparipinnate leaves, and consist of elliptio 
oblong obtuse leaflets, which are pubescent on the lower surface, and marked with transparent 
glandular dots ; the flowers grow in dense cylindrical heads, which are about lfc inches 
long, and are crowded with blossoms of a deep blue colour. As a greenhouse plant, the graceful 
habit and foliage, and the very desirable colour of the flowers, will render it an acquisition. It is, 
moreover, not unlikely to prove a useful subject for planting against a conservatory wall, or perhaps 
for occupying a place in the choice shrubbery border, or the mixed flower garden during the summer. 
Price 105. 6tf. each. 
DALECHAMPIA ROEZLIANA ROSEA. 
It blooms very freely, even on plants a few inches high ; ami produces its flowers nearly through- 
out the year, but especially so during the winter. Individually the flowers are extremely handsome, 
and last a long time in beauty, owing to the persistent nature of the bracts. Added to these recoin- 
dations, it is sweet scented. 
Decidedly the best new plant of the year. 
The large rosy bracts recall those of Bougainvillaea, and will render the plant very acceptable in 
our stoves, and useful for purposes of table decoration. The flowers arc admirably adapted for 
bouquets. 
This attractive plant has been introduced ' from Vera Cruz, Mexico. It differs from the great 
majority of its oongeners in its erect (not climbing) stem. 
The leaves are 5 to 9 inches long, undivided, 1 to 3 inches wide at the widest portion, are very 
shortly stalked, subcordate, obovate or spoon-shaped, tapering towards the base, acuminate at 
the apex, and smooth, or nearly so, on both surfaces; the peduncles are slender, thread-like, 
angular, slightly downy stalks, 2 to 3 inches long ; they bear at the top two small ovate braots, 
placed at the base of two large, broadly egg-shaped, acuminate, denticulate, rosy pink floral leaves. 
Within these two latter are other smaller bracts, plaoed around and among the male and female 
flowers ; some of them thick and club-shaped, and bearing at the top a fringe of short, yellow, waxy- 
looking threads, which give a singular appearance to the blossoms. 
At the Royal Horticultural Society’s Show of New and Rare Plants, held last May, Mr. W. Bui.r, 
received for Dalochcunipiu Moczliunu rosea the first prize (Silver Floral Medal) as “the best new 
plant shown for the first time in flower.” 
This plant has also received First Class Certificates, from the Floral Committee of the Royal Hor- 
ticultural Society, at the Great Horticultural Exhibition held at Bury St. Edmund’s, the National 
Horticultural Exhibition at Manchester ; indeed, wherever exhibited it has received the highest 
award that could be made. 
Price 2 guineas each . 
DALECHAMPIA ROEZLIANA CARNEA. 
A variety precisely similar to the preceding in growth and general character, but with blush 
white flowers. 
Price 2 guineas each. 
