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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
cuttings one season, and kept over the winter, 
and then grown into large flowering plants 
the following summer. Figured in the Bota- 
nical Register, 1845, t. 29. Natural order, 
Goodeniaceas. 
Habkanthus concolor, Lindley. (The 
whole-coloured Habranth). — A green-house 
or frame bulb, of small size, producing rather 
pretty daffodil-like pale greenish-yellow flow- 
ers, in the months of April and May. It was 
found by Mr. Hartweg, in pastures near the 
city of Leon, in Mexico, and sent to the Horti- 
cultural Society. It grows in a mixture of 
sandy loam, peat, and well-reduced cow dung. 
Figured in the Botanical Register, 1845, 
t. 54. Natural order, AmaryllidaceiE. 
Habranthus nobilis, Herbert. (The noble 
Habranthus). — A showy bulbous plant, per- 
haps a variety of H. kermesimts. It has 
rather fleshy blunt leaves, a quarter of an 
inch wide ; and a flower stem about a foot 
high, usually bearing about six flowers. The 
tube of the flowers is very short, and greenish ; 
the limb, about two inches long, is of a full 
deep red, ribbed, near the base, and there 
whitish in the interior. It flowered out of 
doors in October, in front of a pine stove, in 
the garden of the Rev. F. Belfield, at Primley 
Hill, near Torquay. 
Hebecladus biflorus, Miers. (The twin- 
flowered Hebecladus). — This is a suffruticose 
— scarcely shrubby plant, with green fleshy 
branches, subovate leaves, and handsome 
drooping flowers in pairs, rarely three to- 
gether. The leaves are alternate, on the 
lower part of the stem, but the upper ones are 
in unequal pairs ; the flowers issue from the 
axils ; they consist of cylindrical hairy tubes, 
of a dull purple colour, and a limb of five 
narrow green spreading segments. It is a 
native of the Andes of Peru, about Tarma, 
Canta, Cullnay, &c. It is a green-house plant, 
increased by cuttings ; it flowers in August, 
and should be potted in a light loamy soil. 
Called also Atropa bijiora. Figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4192. Natural order, 
Solanaceaj. 
Heliotropium incandm, of gardens. 
(Hoary-leaved Heliotrope.) — A half-shrubby 
plant, like the well-known common Heliotrope. 
It has the leaves very rugose, or wrinkled ; 
and the flowers are white, and possess an 
odour similar to the common kind, but fainter 
and less pleasant : indeed the plant is alto- 
gether inferior to II. peruvianum. It was 
found on dry hills in Peru, by Messrs. Veitch's 
collector, by whom the plant has been raised. 
Natural order, Boragineas. 
Hindsia longifloha, alba, of gardens. (The 
white long-flowered Hindsia). — This is a very 
pretty and interesting variety of the long-flow- 
ered Hindsia, differing only in having pure 
white flowers instead of blue ones ; they are 
sweet scented. It is grown by Messrs. Hen- 
derson. Natural order, Rubiacea:. 
HypoCYRTA discolor, Lindley. (Disco- 
loured Hypoeyrta). — A tall stove herbaceous 
plant. It has large smooth, oval-stalked 
leaves, and the flowers are produced singly at 
the axils ; the calyx is large, spreading, and 
purplish, and the corolla dull yellow and 
shaggy with hair. It is cultivated under the 
name of Columned Zebrina. Natural order, 
Gesneraceoe. 
Indiogera decora, of gardens. (The comely 
Indigo-flower). — A handsome green-house 
shrub, from China. It, has rather large pin- 
nated foliage, and short thick spikes of pretty 
pink, pea-shaped flowers, which are in a 
measure hidden by the foliage. It has bloomed 
in September. Natural order, Leguminosa?. 
Iochroma TVBVLOSA,Beiitharn . (The tubu- 
lar lochroma). — This was called Ilabrotkam- 
mis cyaneus. In the opinion of Mr. Bentham, 
however, this, with one or two other plants, 
are better separated as a distinct genus, differ- 
ing from Habrothamnus in the aestivation of 
the corolla, and in the fruit, which is pulpy, a 
sort of berry, and not a dry capsule. The 
flowers are deep purple, very numerous from 
the tops of the stems, sometimes as many as 
thirty in a cluster. Figured in the Botanical 
Register, 1845, t. 20. Natural order, Sola- 
nacete. 
Iris bibkicata, Lindley. (The imbricated 
Iris.) — A showy hardy perennial, with pale 
lemon-coloured flowers, of considerable size. 
It is allied to I. squalens, of which it may 
possibly be only a variety. The plant is cul- 
tivated by the Dean of Manchester, and is 
found to be quite hardy when planted in light 
sandy loam, and in a warm situation. It 
flowers in May. Figured in the Botanical 
Register,184o, t. 35. Natural order, Iridaceae. 
Iris stylosa, Desfontaines. (The long- 
styled Iris). — The Dean of Manchester has 
brought this plant from Mount Rondi, in 
Cephalonia. It is a small species, with nar- 
row leaves growing in a spreading flat tuft ; 
and has large blue flowers, supported by 
a tube six inches long, from the underground 
root (or stem), in the same way as the Crocus. 
Some of the steeps of Corfu are said to be 
quite covered with its blossoms during January 
and February. Its hardiness in our climate 
has not been ascertained. Natural order, 
IridaceaJ. 
Ixiolirion montanum, LTerbert. (The moun- 
tain Ixia-lily). — This is a handsome hardy 
bulb, belonging to the caulescent division of 
Amaryllidaeeous plants. It has the long 
narrow leaves peculiar to this tribe of plants, 
and produces a branching, somewhat spiked, 
flower stem, well furnished with showy bluish 
