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macliia Leschenaulti, a densely-branched prostrate plant with heads of rosy 
flowers, which will probably be found useful for flower-beds and borders 
during summer. 
Greenhouse shrubs have been more numerous. Acacia Drummondi and 
Boronia Drummondi are among the best of their respective families • the 
former has flowers of the usual color — yellow — in oblong heads, and the 
latter has gay pink blossoms. Oxylobium Osborni has profuse bright orange 
Papilionaceous flowers, and, as well as the preceding, is remarkably orna- 
mental. Pittosporum flavum is a bold, strong plant, of a difierent character, 
but worth growing where there is space for it ; it has broad Laurel-like 
leaves, and heads of large yellow flowers. 
In the Continental botanic gardens has been raised an exceedingly orna- 
mental Oestrum, called Regeli, which, it appears, rivals the now well-known 
C. aurantiacum, and requires similar management. Salvia porphyracantha 
is a new and brilliant scarlet-flowered species which has originated in the 
French gardens ; and from the same source, it may be mentioned, has been 
re-introduced, under the name of Echites Pellieri, the old and rare Echites 
suberecta, now called Neriandra suberecta. A fine greenhouse evergreen 
perennial, with the habit of Olivia, has been added, or at least bloomed 
for the first time, during the past year ; it is called Imantophyllum minia- 
tum, and bears an umbel of very showy vermillion-colored flowers. Another 
curious and really showy greenhouse perennial, from the Southern United 
States, is the Sabbatia stellaris, whose flowers are deep rose, with a yellow- 
ish-green, star-shaped eye. 
Belonging probably to the cool greenhouse, rather than to the hardy class, 
are several species of Rhododendron, which have been introduced from the 
mountains of Bootan. As none of them have as yet, we believe, flowered 
in this country, little more can be reported of them than that they comprise 
novelty and distinctness in their foliage, and in some instances the flowers 
are stated to be very showy ; one of them, R. Nuttalli, having, it is said, 
the largest blossoms of any known species of the genus, atd these are said 
to be white, with a tint of yellow and rose, and to be delightfully fragrant. 
It is probably in the way of R. Dalhousice. 
Among the novel stove plants occurs, probably, the most decidedly popular 
of the plants of the year, a beautiful variegated-leaved, dwarf-branching, 
sub-shrubby perennial, called Sonerila Margaritacea. Its foliage, which 
looks as if sown with pearls, is in itself very lively, and its ornamental 
blooms, which are for some time produced in great profusion, are of a gay 
rose-color, enlivened in a remarkable manner by the large prominent yel- 
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