NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
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quires similar treatment. A native of Deme- 
rara. Figured in the Botanical Register, 
1845, t. 14. Natural order, Marantaceae. 
Calceolaria alba, Ruiz and Pavon. 
(The white-flowered Slipperwort). — A small 
shrubby species from Chili. It has narrow, 
opposite, remotely serrated leaves, and nume- 
rous elongated panicles of small clusters or 
thyrses of flowers, which are nearly pure white. 
It has been introduced by Messrs. Veitch and 
Son, of Exeter. It flowers in September, and 
is a very handsome plant. Figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4157. Natural order, 
Scrophulariacea?. • 
Calceolaria floribunda, Humboldt, &c. 
(The many-flowered Slipperwort). — This is a 
shrubby species of Calceolaria from Quito. It 
is an erect growing plant, with opposite, 
oblong, lance-shaped leaves ; and ample 
flowered terminal corymbs of sub-globose, pale 
yellow flowers. It will doubtless be suitable 
for a green-house ; though, as the city of Quito, 
in the neighbourhood of which it is found, is 
1 1 ,000 feet above the sea level, it may, probably, 
be sufficiently hardy to grow, as many other spe- 
cies do, in the open ground in summer. It seems 
to bloom throughout the summer season. 
Figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4154. 
Calliandra Tweediei, Beniham. (Mr. 
Tweedie's Calliandra). — This is a mimosa- 
like shrubby plant, with compound, or bi-pin- 
nate leaves, and large heads of about twenty 
flowers from the axils : the beauty of the 
plant resides in the long red filaments of the 
stamens, which give the heads of flowers the 
appearance of a bottle-brush. It is a stove 
plant, native of Rio Grande, and Rio Jaquery, 
in South Brazil. It was first flowered at 
Knowsley, the residence of the Earl of Derby, 
in March 1845. Figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4188. Natural order, Mimosece. 
Caliphruria IIartwegiana, Herbert. 
(Hartweg's Caliphruria). — A bulbous plant, 
found by Mr. Hartweg in New Granada, near 
Guaduas. It has ovate bulbs, and somewhat 
oval, pointed, depressed leaves, six inches in 
length, borne on short foot-stalks. The flowers 
arc funnel-shaped, about an inch long, and arc 
produced at the top of the stem (scape), in a 
many-flowered umbel ; the tube is green, and 
the reflcxed spreading limb, white with yel- 
low anthers. It has the appearance of an 
Eucrosia ; and is allied both to Eurycles, and 
Griffinia. Natural order, Amaryllidaceae. 
( ' \ llipsyche eucrosioides, Herbert. (The 
two-coloured Fairy-bloom). — This is a very 
curious and ornamental bulbous plant, from 
the west coast of Mexico. Its leaves are a foot 
long, and tour inches broad ; the flowers are 
drooping from the top of the stem, which 
grows two feet and upwards; they consist of 
a short green tube, and a limb about an inch 
long, of six obtuse scarlet segments ; the 
stamens project beyond the flower more than 
three times its length. It seems to like shade, 
and flowers in March, before the leaves. It 
requires the same treatment as green-house 
bulbs ; requiring a somewhat higher tempe- 
rature when in full growth. Figured in the 
Botanical Register, 1845, t. 45. Natural 
order, Amaryllidacea?. 
Camellia japonica, Lorn's Jubilee, of gar- 
dens. — A variety rivalling C. reticulata in the 
size and showiness of its blossoms, and excel- 
ling it in the form, arrangement, and number 
of the petals. They are of a fine, delicate, 
blush pink, with a streak of deeper hue down 
the centre. It was raised and flowered at Mr. 
Low's nursery, at Clapton. Natural order, 
Ternstrceniiaceas. 
Camellia japonica, Low's centifolia, of 
gardens. — Another variety, also flowered at 
Mr. Low's. It has remarkably broad leaves, 
with very prominent venations ; the flowers 
are of a rosy crimson, not unlike those of the 
cabbage-rose, which has given rise to the 
allusion in the name. 
Campanula sylvatica, Wallich. (The 
wood Bell-flower). — A small annual erect plant, 
with a good deal the appearance of the com- 
mon hare-bell, with small oblong, obovate root 
leaves, and narrow linear stem leaves. The 
flowers are erect and terminal, on long pedun- 
cles ; they are broadly bell-shaped, and of a 
brilliant light ccerulean blue. It is found in 
moist and shaded places in Nepal. It is an 
excellent plant for the parterre : young plants 
reared from seeds (which are freely produced) 
in the autumn, and kept through the winter in 
the green-house, come into flower early in the 
summer, and continue for along time to bloom. 
Not new. Figured in Paxton's Magazine, 
p. 245. Natural order, Campanulacese. 
Caragana triflora, Lindley. (The three- 
flowered Caragana). — A hardy shrub (from 
India and Tartary ?) with spiny footstalks to 
its four and five barbed leaves, the segments 
of which are oval and silky, as in most others 
of this pretty tribe of butterfly- flowered shrubs. 
The flowers are greenish yellow, growing in 
threes. Natural order, Leguminosaj. 
Ceradia furcata, Lindley. (The Ichaboe 
Coral-bush). — A curious, succulent, forked- 
stemmed, green-house plant, with a few succu- 
lent spathulate leaves, and solitary small pale 
yellow composite flowers, of the most incon- 
spicuous appearance imaginable. Sometimes 
its leathery branches are blotched with broad 
patches of a scarlet lichen, called Dufourea 
llamniea. whence, and from its forked habit, it 
has been called Coral-busli. It is from Ichaboe, 
and the west coast of Africa, and by its appear- 
ance indicates a very sterile climate. Natural 
order, Composita?. 
