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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
white anl cliolocate co'.our. We have not 
seen the flowers. 
Lucdlia Pinciana, Hooker. (Mr. Pince's 
Luculia). — A very handsome green-house 
shrub, from Nepal, witli large ovate leaves, 
and immense heads of pinkish fragrant flowers, 
varying in colour as they become older. It 
has been raised by Messrs. Lucombe & Co., 
of the Exeter nursery. Figured in the Bo- 
tanical Magazine, t. 4132. Natural order, 
Cinchonaceas. 
Lupinus eamosissimus, Bentham. (The 
branching Lupin). — This is a pretty half- 
hardy shrubby species of Lupin, growing from 
three to four feet high; it appears adapted 
for culture as an annual, if sown early and 
kept in pots until danger from frost is past, 
before being planted out. The stem and leaves 
are hairy; the flowers open blue, with a dash 
of yellowish white on the upper part; this turns 
to a purplish red after being some time ex- 
panded, and is then of a similar colour to the 
dark-flowered sweet peas ; it resembles these 
flowers also in its smell. Mr. Hartweg found 
it at Chimborazo, at an elevation of 13,000 ft. 
above the level of the sea. It blooms from 
June till October. Figured in the Botanical 
Register, 1845, t. 25. Natural order, Legu- 
minosse. 
Ltcium fuchsioides, Humboldt. (The 
Fuchsia-like Lycium). — An evergreen green- 
house, or half-hardy plant, with handsome 
oval leaves, and drooping, tubular, orange- 
scarlet flowers. Native of the Andes of 
South America. Figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4149. Natural order, Solanaceos. 
Ltperia BWNA.TiTmA,Bentham. (The pin- 
natifed Lyperia). — This is the old Manulea 
pinnatifida. It is a straggling, growing almost 
trailing, sub-shrubby green-house plant, form- 
ing a neat bush, with small pinnatifed leaves, 
and large purple flowers,of five irregular petals, 
nearly square at the ends. It is from the 
Karroo desert of Southern Africa. It is said 
to have been many 3 f ears in this country, but 
does not appear to be much known. Natural 
order, Scrophulariacese. 
Muss^enda macrophvlla, Wallich. (The 
broad-leaved Mussasnda). — The Mussamdas 
are singular shrubby plants, bearing corymbs 
of funnel-shaped flowers, each head of flowers 
having usually three or four of the calyx-lobes 
expanded into a large leaf, differing from the 
ordinary leaves of the plant only in colour, 
these being usually nearly white ; the other 
calyx -lobes, of which there are five to each 
individual flower, are small and acute. This 
plant forms a handsome evergreen shrub, 
growing three to six feet high, with ovate 
acuminate leaves, and large terminal corymbs 
of orange-coloured flowers, which are tubular, 
and spread out at the end into five pointed 
divisions. It is from the mountains of Nepal, 
and requires a temperature rather warmer 
than that of a green-house, or to be kept in the 
warmest part of a good green-house. It 
blooms during the summer. Messr3. Knight 
and Perry first bloomed the plant in 1844. 
Figured in Paxton's Magazine, p. 197. Na- 
tural order, Cinchonaceos. 
Mtoporum serrattjm, R.Brown. (The saw- 
leaved Myoporum). — A small green-house 
bush, with lanceolate serrated leaves, and 
white flowers spotted with purple, composed 
of five round petals, something like those of 
the hawthorn ; they are borne in great pro- 
fusion. It should be potted in sandy peat 
earth, and requires about the same treatment 
as heaths. It is a native of Tasmannia. 
Figured in the Botanical Register, 1845, 1. 15. 
Natural order, Myoporacea?. 
Nagelia I denticulata, Lindley. (The 
toothed Nagelia). — This is the Cotoneaster 
denticulata of Mr. "Bentham, and is proposed 
to be separated from Cotoneaster by Dr. 
Lindley, from a difference in the fruit, which 
in Cotoneaster contains a hard bony stone, 
and in the present plant, a thin inner coat like 
that in a Pyrus. Otherwise it agrees both in 
the flowers, and in much of its general habit, 
with Cotoneaster. The fruit is of a pale pink 
colour, about as large as a pistol ball, and with 
a brittle semi-transparent flesh. Natural order, 
Rosacea?. 
Neptunia, species. — A species of Neptunia, 
(by some considered to be Desmanthus) has 
flowered at Syon, having been raised from 
Jamaica seeds. It is a stove aquatic herb, 
with mimosa-like, sensitive leaves, and 
roundish oval heads of yellow flowers. The 
stems of an allied plant, among others, furnish 
the substance called rice paper, which consist 
of the pith cut into thin lamina, or plates, and 
pressed out quite flat. It has also flowered 
from Indian seed in the gardens of the Royal 
Botanic Society. It flowers in October. 
Natural order, Mimoseas. 
Ornithogalum MARGiNATUir,.£iW/('.y. (The 
white-edged Star of Bethlehem). — Rather a 
pretty hardy green-house bulb, flowering in 
March and April. The leaves are long, narrow, 
and pointed with a white margin ; the flowers 
are green on the outside, white inside, of six 
spreading petals, on long stalks, from a short 
erect stem. It was procured from the Asiatic 
side of the Bosphorus, and might probably suc- 
ceed out of doors, if kept dry in winter. It is 
under a foot in height. Figured in the Bo- 
tanical Register, 1845, t. 21. Natural order, 
Liliaceas 
Oenithogalu.m nanum, Sibthorp. (The 
dwarf Star of Bethlehem).— A pretty little 
dwarf-growing hardy bulb, resembling the 
common Star of Bethlehem. It grows freely 
