NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
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some of the neighbouring buds producing the 
leafy shoots, which bear flowers the succeeding 
season. The base of every flower is furnished 
with a bract (small leaf) considerably deve- 
loped ; and the flowers on each raceme all 
hang drooping one way, which is termed secund. 
The plant inhabits the sandy open plains, in 
Brazil, and the coast from the city of Cara- 
vellos, in the province of Porto Seguro, as far 
as the Island of St. Catharine. It requires 
treatment similar to that given to Cape Heaths. 
Messrs. Loddiges exhibited it in bloom during 
the summer months of 1844. Figured in the 
Botanical Register, 1844, t. 62 ; and Pax- 
ton's Magazine, p. 101. Natural order, Eri- 
caceae 
Genista Spachiana, Webb. (M. Spach's 
Genista). — This is one of the small group of 
Canarian Genistas, which are such general 
favourites in the green-house in the spring 
months. It is a small bushy-growing ever- 
green shrub, with trifoliate leaves, the 
segments of which are elliptic-lance-shaped ; 
the flowers are yellow, butterfly-shaped, and 
sweet-scented, in loose spikes, at the end of 
the branches. It is indigenous to the 
high mountains of Teneriffe, and had existed 
for several years in the open ground at Paris, 
until destroyed by the cold of the late severe 
winter. Figured in the Botanical Magazine, 
t. 4195. Natural order, Leguminoste. 
Gesnera maculata, of gardens (the 
spotted-flowered Gesnera). — This is a hybrid 
production, of considerable beauty, apparently 
raised between the G. Duuglassi, and some 
one of the large scarlet-flowered Brazilian 
species, which adorn our stoves. At first 
sight, the blossoms of this plant greatly re- 
semble the Penlstemon gentianoides, being 
about the same size, of a somewhat similar 
shape, and nearly of the same dullrose-crimson 
tint; a colour, however, very distinct and 
pretty. The leaves are large, cordate, and 
hairy, on stalks of some length ; the flowers 
numerously borne for some distance at the top 
of the stem ; they are tubular, the tube slightly 
curved upwards, and the lower part projecting 
forwards, giving the extremity of the flower 
the appearance of a scoop. It flowers in 
March and April. Natural order, Gesneraceas. 
Gesnera Sciiieduna, Hooker. (Schiede's 
Gesnera). — A very handsome sub-shrubby 
stove plant, with an erect hairy stem, and 
thick, oblor.g lanceolate leaves, soft and 
downy, and arranged in whorls of three. 
The flowers are numerous from the axils, 
between bell-shaped and funnel-shaped, of a 
rich scarlet colour, and clothed with long, 
shaggy, scarlet hairs ; it is divided at the end 
into live lobes, which are yellow, marked with 
broken crimson lines. It is from Mexico, and 
flowered in November at Woburn. It has 
been regarded as a variety of G. spicata. 
Figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4152. 
Gesnera Gerardiana, Newman. (Gerard's 
Gesnera). — This is a very handsome kind, 
much like G. zebrlna, but without the Zebra- 
like markings on the leaves. The flowers are 
half red, and half yellow, and spotted as in G. 
zebrina, and often fifteen or twenty together 
in a panicle. It is much like an Achimenes. 
Gesnera vestita, Bentham. (The clothed 
Gesnera). — A sub-shrubby stove plant, with 
hairy ovate-oblong stalked leaves, and orange- 
coloured flowers, mottled on the lobes of the 
corolla. Collected by Mr. Hartweg, near the 
village of Tena, in the province of Bogota. 
It is not a very showy species. 
Gladiolus festivos, Herbert. (The gay 
Gladiolus, or Corn -flag). — The flower stem 
of this species rises to about a foot and a half 
high, bearing about ten flowers, thickly set 
towards its summit, and leaning to one side 
(secund). The flowers have a white cylin- 
drical tube, and a pale rose-coloured limb ; 
and the leaves, which rise after the flowers, are 
smooth, narrow, and acute. It is from the Cape 
of Good Hope, and has flowered in the Roj'al 
Botanic Garden, Kew. Natural order, Iridacere. 
Gloxinia tubiflora, Hooker. (Tube-flow- 
ered Gloxinia). — A stove plant, of upright 
rather straggling habit, and bearing large 
white agreeably fragrant flowers, consisting of 
a long narrow tube, dilated at the mouth, and 
spread out into five broad unequal segments. 
It flowers throughout the summer months, 
under the same treatment as Gesneras, Achi- 
menes, &c. It is said to have been raised 
from seeds received from Buenos Ayres, but 
is believed to be a native of South Brazil, 
or Paraguay. Figured in the Botanical Regis- 
ter, 1845, t.3. Natural order, Gesneracea?. 
Gompiiolobidm versicolor, var. caulibus 
pi/rj)ureis,Hooher.{The\->UYY>le-stQmmed\ar'K\y 
of the changeable Gompholobium). — This is ;j 
handsome green-house shrub, ofvigorous habit, 
with long trailing stems, narrow lower leaves, 
and crimson pea-like flowers, of much the 
same appearance as those of G. polymorphum. 
It was exhibited in May 1845, by Messrs. 
Lucombe and Co., and has been figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4179 ; and PaxtOrCs 
Magazine, p. 219. Natural order, Leguminosa?. 
GOODEMA GRANDIFI.oUA, Sims. (The OVatc- 
leaved Goodenia). Not a new plant, but one 
which has become exceedingly rare, if not 
altogether lost, till Mr. Bidwell presented 
seeds to the Horticultural Society from New 
Zealand? It is a green-house perennial, with 
the lower leaves lyrate, and the upper ones 
ovate ; the Mowers are yellow, orange scented, 
composed of live nearly oval petals, with 
crimpled margins, and situated two above, 
and three beneath. It should be raised from 
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