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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
stem : the flowers are white, with regular, 
broad, ribbed petals, marked with blush-red 
lines. Natural order, Iridaceae. 
Blandfordia intermedia, Herbert. (In- 
termediate Blandfordia). — A beautiful green- 
house herbaceous plant, with rigid, channelled, 
tuftedfoliage, and erect racemesof large, pendu- 
lous, trumpet-shaped flowers. It has flowered 
at Spoiforth, bearing twenty blossoms ; it is 
allied to B. nobilis, but is altogether a more 
robust and much finer plant. Native of New 
Holland. Natural order, Liliaceas. 
Blandfordia margin at a, Herbert. (The 
rough-edged Blandfordia). — A green-house 
herbaceous plant, with long, linear sheathing 
leaves, collected at the base ; from these the 
flower stem rises erect, and bears a long coni- 
cal raceme of flowers, crowded together to- 
wards the top, and each attached by a little 
stalk directly with the main stem ; the flowers 
are drooping, and individually of a lengthened 
conical figure, resembling an elongated funnel ; 
they are deep orange, with a yellow interior. 
It is a native of Van Diemen's Land, growing 
abundantly on Rocky Cape, in poor quartz 
sand, and where the soil is rather wet. It 
naturally requires a good supply of water in 
the summer season, and air at all times when 
the weather is favourable. In the winter, on 
the contrary, it should be kept rather dry, on 
an airy shelf, well exposed to the sun. Figured 
in the Botanical Register, 1845, t. 18. 
Boldoa fragrans, Jussieu. (The sweet- 
scented Boldu). — This is a small green-house 
bush ; in its native country, Chili, growing 
from fifteen to twenty-five feet high. It is of 
compact bushy habit, with greyish branches, 
and roundish ovate evergreen opposite leathery 
leaves, with a rough surface. The flowers 
are small, whitish green, somewhat daisy-like, 
though very different in structure ; they are 
produced in little terminal branching panicles. 
The fruit, which is only known in its dried 
state, is a little drupe as large as a haw, appa- 
rently black, and extremely fragrant. The 
plant has a highly aromatic odour in every 
part. In Chili the plant is much valued ; its 
wood forms a charcoal preferred by smiths to 
all others ; and the fruit is eaten by the natives. 
The leaves of the female plant are usually 
larger than those of the male. It is a green- 
house shrub, growing freely in sandy loam 
and peat. Figured in the Botanical Register, 
1845, t. 57. Natural order, Monomiaceas. 
Bouvardia flava, Decaisne. (The bright 
yellow-flowered Bouvardia). — This handsome 
plant has been raised by M. Van Houtte, of 
Ghent. It is a small bushy plant, well suited 
for bedding out in summer, and bears a pro- 
fusion of bright yellow tube-shaped flowers. 
It also forms a fine ornament for the green- 
house. Figured in the Florist'.* Journal, 
for December 1845. Natural order, Rubia- 
ceas. 
Brovfnea Ariza, Bentham. (The Ariza 
Brownea). — In Peru a tree thirty or forty 
feet high, with large lobed leaves, and clusters 
of rich scarlet flowers from the points of the 
shoots. A few young plants have been raised 
in the Horticultural Society's gardens. From 
the woods near Guaduas, in the province of 
Bogota. Natural order, Leguminosoe. 
Burtonia brtjnoides, De Candolle. (The 
Brunea-like Burtonia). — A dwarf-growing 
green-house shrub, from New Holland. It has 
villous branches, short linear leaves, and rather 
flat terminal heads of yellow pea-shaped 
flowers, produced in June. The plant appears 
to possess a vigorous habit. Natural order, 
Leguminosas. 
Cajanus bicolor, De Candolle. (The two- 
coloured Pigeon-pea). — This is cultivated for 
its seeds both in the East and West Indies. It 
is an upright growing plant, with pinnated 
leaves, composed of three oval-lanceolate hairy 
leaflets. The flowers are yellow, striated 
with red on the outside ; they are situated in 
corymbs of four or five together in the axils 
of the leaves, and they are succeeded by long 
narrow pods, containing four or five seeds 
each, the favourite food of wild pigeons. It is 
a half-hardy annual or biennial, growing about 
eighteen inches high, and flowering rather 
freely from June to August. Figured in the 
Botanical Register, 1 845, t. 3 1 . Natural order, 
Leguminosae. 
Calandrtnia umbellata, Be Candolle. 
(The umbel-flowered Calandrinia). — This is 
from the mountain regions of Chili. It is a 
perennial herbaceous plant, with little tufts 
of linear hairy leaves, and large deep rose- 
coloured flowers, of the size of a shilling, 
which, however, require sunshine to open 
them. Altogether the plant has much the 
appearance of the dwarf Mesembryanthemums ; 
and like those plants, it is well suited for rock- 
work in sunny spots, or for planting on sunny 
banks : it grows only a few inches high, and 
sends out all round numerous spreading stems, 
bearing each an umbel of flowers, which look 
very beautiful. In the climate of Devonshire 
it has stood out the winter of 1844, and may 
probably be found to be half-hardy. Messrs. 
Veitch exhibited in flower in July, 1845. 
Also called Talinum umbellatum. Natural 
order, Portulacacea3. 
Calathea villosa, Bindley. (The shaggy 
Calathea). — A curious herbaceous stove plant, 
with large oblong stalked leaves, and tall 
flower stems, bearing at the top a cylindrical 
spike, composed of cucullate scales, enclosing 
the base of the pale yellow two-petalled flow- 
ers. The whole plant is shaggy. It is allied 
to Maranta (the Arrow-root plant), and re- 
