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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
(Dalmais' Polygala). A French hybrid, be- 
tween P. grandijiura and P. cordifqlia, 
the former of which it resembles in the leaf, 
and the latter in the colour of the flower. It 
forms a handsome green-house shrub. Natu- 
ral order, Polygalacea?. 
POEPHOETCOMA LANCEOLATA, Hooker. 
(The lance-leaved Porphorycoma.) A beauti- 
ful stove shrubby-plant, with lance-shaped 
leaves, and crested heads of beautiful purple 
flowers. It has the habit of the Aphelandras. 
It has been grown at the Royal Botanic Gar- 
den at Kew, but nothing is known of its 
history. Figured in the Botanical Maga- 
zine, t. 4176. Natural order, Acanthaceae. 
Potentilla bicoloe, Lindley. (The two- 
coloured Potentil). A handsome, hardy, pe- 
rennial plant, with trailing stems, digitate, 
or strawberry-like leaves, and flowers also 
of the shape of those of the strawberry, 
but of a clear yellow colour, covered over 
with red lines, like net-work, melting into a 
clear red border. It flowers from July to 
September. It was raised in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, from seed received 
from Dr. Royle, and said to have been col- 
lected either in Cashmere or Thibet. Fi- 
gured in the Botanical Register, 1845, t. 62. 
Natural Order, Rosaceas. 
Rhododendrum AKBOEEtrar, var. Beauty. — 
A variety raised by Mr. Jackson, of Kingston. 
The flowers are large, of a French white 
ground colour, and prettily spotted in the 
upper part with dark coloured spots. Natu- 
ral order, Ericaceae. 
Ehododendrum campanulatum, lyybri- 
dum ,of gardens. (The bell-flowered Rhododen- 
dron, variety). This is a fine variety, ex- 
hibited at the Regent's Park exhibition in 
April 1845, by Messrs. Luconibe, Pince, 
and Co. of Exeter. It has immense heads 
of fine, large, well-formed, flesh-coloured 
flowers, spotted in the upper parts with clear 
dark spots. 
Rhus diveesiloba, Torrey. (The various- 
leaved Poison-Oak). This is a hardy deci- 
duous shrub, or small tree, of upright growth, 
with leaves consisting chiefly of three (some- 
times five) leaflets of an ovate form, and con- 
siderably lobed. The flowers are in axillary 
branches, small and white, and produced 
abundant!}' in June. It is from California, 
and the country people call it Yearn, and say 
that it poisons on contact, or even through 
the air. It is, doubtless, very venomous, as 
also is the common poison oak, Rhus Toxico- 
dendron, to which it is nearly related. It 
grows freely in common garden soil. Figured 
in the Botanical Register, 1845, t. 38. Na- 
tural order, Anacardiacea. 
Rhynchoglossubi zeylanicum, Hooher. 
(The Ceylon Rhynchoglossum). An annual 
or a biennial plant from Ceylon, introduced 
to the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew, by 
Mr. Gardner. It is an erect -growing, 
branching plant, about a foot high, with suc- 
culent branches, alternate, obliquely ovate 
leaves : — (one half is frequently twice as large 
as the other). The flowers are drooping, in 
long terminal one-sided racemes ; they are 
small, bright blue, and personate ; that is, 
with a cylindrical tube, and a two -lipped 
limb, — the upper lip two-cleft, and the lower 
one three-cleft. The tube is pale-coloured. 
It requires a stove. Figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4198. Natural order, Cyrtan- 
draceas. 
Rises sanguinea, flore-ydeno, of gardens. 
(The double scarlet-flowered Currant). A 
handsome hardy shrub, differing from the 
common scarlet-flowered currant, in having 
double flowers. The drooping racemes, of 
deep red blossoms, are produced freely. 
Figured in Paxton's Magazine, p. 121. Na- 
tural order, Grossulacea?. 
Ruellia lilacina, Hooher. (The lilac- 
flowered Ruellia). A stove-shrub, with 
smooth, opposite, ovate leaves, and axillary, 
purple-lilac flowers, generally two from each 
axil ; they are funnel-shaped, with a long, 
slender, curved tube, and spreading five-lobed 
limb. Its blossoms are produced from time 
to time, during the greater part of the sum- 
mer months. The native country is unknown. 
Figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 414-1, 
and in Paxton's Magazine, p. 243. Natural 
order, Acanthaceas. 
Ruellia maculata, of gardens. (The spot- 
ted Ruellia). We have not seen this plant in 
flower. It is a handsome - growing sub- 
shrubby stove-plant, with ovate leaves, which 
are beautifully marked with blotches resem- 
bling films of silver ; these blotches occur 
in two rows, one on each side of the midrib, 
and a little distance from it, and they extend 
to within a short distance of the margin. 
Each blotch occupies, in width, the space 
between the side veins, which branch off in a 
parallel manner, from the midrib to the mar- 
gin. It is grown, under the above name, by 
Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Nursery. 
Salpicheoa glandulosa, Miers. (The 
glandular Salpichroa). This is a small Chilian 
suffruticose spreading plant, allied to Atropa. 
It has small, opposite, cordate, hairy leases, 
from the axils of which are produced the 
long, tubular, greenish, or pale-yellow flowers. 
It was exhibited at Chisfrick, in flower, in 
the month of July, by Messrs. Veitch. Na- 
tural order, Solanaceae. 
Salpiglossis, qiecies. Messrs. Veitch 
have introduced from Peru a species of this 
interesting, though difficult, family of half- 
hardy biennials, which has flowers of a bright 
