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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
named splendens, magnified, grandifiora, deli- 
cata, elegans, conspicua, midtiflora, and 
bicolor ; they are of various shades of blush 
and pink, and differ both as to size and form ; 
but they are all very pretty. 
Eremostachts laciniata, Bunge. (The 
jag-leaved Desert-rod). — A large growing 
herbaceous perennial, nearly hardy, affected 
more by wet than cold. It grows from four 
to six feet high, with large pinnated leaves, 
and whorls of whitish labiate flowers, with a 
yellow lip. It is found on the eastern side of 
Caucasus, on dry hills. It flowers in May 
and June. The safest way of preserving it 
in winter is in pots, in a cold dry frame. Not 
new. Figured in the Botanical Register, 
1845, t. 52. Natural order, Labiatse. 
Eustoma exaxtatum, Grisebach. (The tall 
Eustoma). — This is a green-house perennial, 
requiring to be raised one season, to flower 
freely the next. The leaves are elliptic-oblong 
and glaucous ; the flowers bell-shaped, with 
five oval spreading segments, rosy lilac, with 
a darker colour round the eye. It is a native 
of various parts of North America. Figured 
in the Botanical Register, 1845, t. 13. Na- 
tural order, Gentianaceas. 
EVOLVULUS PURPUREO-CCEEUELUS,-Ef00^er. 
(the purple-blue flowered Evolvulus). — A 
twiggy, suffruticose stove plant, with erect 
branches, and small wiry, rigid, spreading 
branchlets ; the leaves are small, acutely lan- 
ceolate, and spreading. The flowers terminal 
on the leafy branches ; they are rotate, or 
wheel-shaped, of a rich ultra-marine blue, 
with a white centre, and fine purple diverging 
rays ; they resemble a good deal the bloom of 
the blue pimpernels and flaxes. It was found 
by Mr. Purdie in Jamaica, on arid rocks, near 
the sea. A variety has been flowered at Kew, 
with much paler blue flowers. It requires a 
stove ; and flowers in July and August. A 
fine plant has bloomed at Syon. Figured in 
the Botanical Magazine, t. 4202. Natural 
order, Convolvulace®. 
Fedia graciliflora, of gardens. (The 
slender-flowered Fedia). — This is a very 
pretty half-hardy annual, with a branching 
stem, moderate sized obtuse opposite leaves, 
and numerous close bunches of small tubular 
rose-coloured flowers. It is exceedingly well 
adapted for planting in beds to bloom during 
the summer ; and flowers for a long time 
in succession. Introduced to France from 
Algiers ; and thence obtained in this country. 
Natural order, Valerianacea?. 
Franciscea acuminata, Pohl. (The acumi- 
nated Franciscea). — This handsome Brazilian 
shrub " is assuredly," says Sir W. Hooker, 
" the F. acuminata of Pohl," in the Plant. 
Brae. It is a stove shrub, with ovate leaves, 
and roundish purple-blue flowers, produced in 
June and July. The genus is not thought by 
some to be sufficiently distinct from Bruns- 
felsia ; and Mr. Bentham has united the two 
genera in the descriptions of the natural order 
Scrophulariacece, for the forthcoming volume 
of De Candolle's Prodromus. Figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4189. Natural order, 
Scrophulariaceas. 
Fuchsia seeratifolia, Ruiz and Pavon. 
(The serrated-leavedFuchsia) This is a large- 
growing species, forming a small tree in Peru, 
and in cultivation ranking with F. fulgens, 
and F. corymbifiora. It has large oval 
pointed leaves, and long tube-shaped pink 
flowers, with a vermillion corolla, and sepals 
tipped with green. They are very showy ; and 
are handsomely figured in the Botanical 
Magazine,*,. 4174: Botanical Register, 1845, 
t..41 ; and Paxton's Magazine, p. 169. 
Galanthus reflexus, Herbert. (The re- 
flexed-flowered Snowdrop). — This is a curious 
little plant, from Mount Gargarus, about half 
size of the common Snowdrop. Natural order, 
Amaryllidacea?. 
Gardenia Stanleyana, Hooker. (Lord 
Derby's Gardenia). — The flowers of this 
species of Gardenia are very handsome ; they 
consist of a narrow tube, nine inches long, and 
a broad spreading limb, five inches across, of 
five ovate segments, white at the margin, and 
spotted and chequered with crimson and green 
in the centre of each division. It blossoms in 
June. Theleaves are oval elliptic; and the flow- 
ers are very fragrant. It is from Sierra Leone. 
Figured in the Botanical Register, 1845, t. 
47 ; and the Botanical Magazine, t. 4185. 
Natural order, Cinchonaceae. 
Gardenia Whitfieldii, Lindley. (Mr. 
Whitfield's Gardenia). — This species was in- 
troduced some years since by Mr. Whitfield, 
from Sierra Leone, and was at the time un- 
named, and probably now lurks among some 
of the unknown stove plants that have never 
bloomed. It has obovate leaves, and leathery 
flowers, covered with a close fur, about five 
inches long, with an expansion of three inches. 
Gai'lussaccia pseudo-vaccinium, Chamis- 
so,hc. (The bilberry-like Gaylussaccia.) — This 
plant is also Andromeda coccinea, and Yacci- 
nium brasiliense. It is a small and hardy green- 
house shrub, growing, according to Auguste de 
St. Hilaire, from one to two and a half feet in 
height. The leaves are oval or elliptic, almost 
without footstalks, and slightly hairy. The 
flowers are pitcher-shaped, that is, short tubular 
contracted at the extremity, and again spread- 
ing out ; and divided into five little pointed 
segments, resembling the bloom of many of 
the heaths ; they are of a pretty rosy pink 
colour, and are produced in dense racemes 
(lengthened branches) from buds situated near 
the extremity of the preceding years growth, 
