188 JVet^ Garden Plants. 
Horticultural Society in September last, when a silver medal was 
awarded to it. — Botanical Register. 
Aquilegia Leptoceras. Slender-horned Columbine. Hardy 
Perennial. (Crowfoots.*) Siberia. 
This very pretty plant has been raised in the garden of the Hor- 
ticultural Society, from seed I'eceived from Dr. Fischer in 1846 j 
and is thus described in the Society's Journal: — "A dwarf herba- 
ceous plant, not growing more than nine inches high, with slen- 
der purplish green stems thinly coated with scattered hairs. Each 
stem bears one or two flowers, on slender pedicel, rather more than 
two inches long. The flowers are a pale bright violet, with the 
tips of the sepals greenish, and of the short petals a clear bright 
straw-color. It is found to grow best in a mixture of light sandy 
loam and a little leaf-mould. It is increased freely by seed sown 
as soon as ripe. It must be considered a neat and very pretty 
plant, well suited for rockwork. — Botanical Register. 
ExAcuM Tetragonum var. eicolor. Square-stalked Exacum; 
two-colored var. Stove Annual. (Gentianworts.*) East 
Indies. 
For the seeds of this Sir W. Hooker is indebted to J. E. Law, 
Esq., of Tanna, Bombay, who finds it growing profusely in the 
Concan among long grass. The seeds being sown in the autumn 
of 1846, produced flowering plants in the stove of the Royal Gar- 
dens in June, 1847. The blossoms are purple, white at the base, 
and highly ornamental; but as the plant is annual, it may prove 
difficult in some seasons to ripen the seed. The flowers are very 
variable in size and color, and Mr. Law observes the color is some- 
times altogether purple ; and Dr. Roxburgh remarks that the leaves 
are also very variable. — Botanical Magazine. 
Gardenia NixmA. Glossy-leaved Gardenia. Stove Shrub. 
(Cinchonads.*) Sierra Leone. 
From Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, who raised it from seeds taken 
from a dried specimen gathered by Mr. Whitfield. It proves to be 
a perfectly new and most distinct species, possessing handsome, 
dark green, glossy foliage, the flowers are among the larger of 
the genus, deliciously scented, and the calyx is furnished with 
large leafy segments, the corolla is of the purest white, its limb cut 
into seven long segments, which soon become reflexed. Though 
shrubby, it is eminently suited to " pot culture." It blossoms in 
October and November, and will probably be found to do so at 
other seasons. — Botanical Magazine. 
* See Lindley's " Vegetable Kingdom" for an explanation of thCseterms 
