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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
Society by Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart, in 
1844. 
Acanthophippium javanicum, Blunie, 
(Javanese Acanthophippium.) — Orchidacex 
§ Vandece-Cryptochilidas. — A handsome dwarf 
pseudo-bulbous epiphyte, with short, broad, 
plaited leaves, and bearing a bunch of flowers 
below the leaves, proceeding from the base of 
the bulbs ; the flowers are of a singular pouch- 
shaped figure, and are yellowish, with purple 
streaks on the outside, and of a delicate lilac 
at the orifice. It was found on the higher 
parts of Mount Salak, in Java, and was 
bloomed by Messrs. Loddiges, in 1844. 
Achimenes grandiflora, var. Liebmanni. 
— Gesneracea3§Gesnere». — This variety differs 
chiefly from grandiflora in having rather more 
vivid rose-purple flowers, without the whitish 
blotch at the throat, in being more slender, 
and having narrower leaves. It is, in fact, a 
smaller and deeper-coloured variety of A. 
grandiflora. It appears to have originated on 
the Continent. 
Achimenes patens, Bentham, (spreading- 
flowered Achimenes.) — A handsome herba- 
ceous stove plant, with scaly tuberous roots, 
and something the appearance of A. grandiflora, 
but instead of the leaves being rough, as in 
that species, they are nearly smooth : the 
flowers are nearly two inches across, and of a 
peculiar rich deep bright purple colour. It 
exactly resembles the other Achimenes, now 
so common, in habit and culture. It was sent 
to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Hartweg, 
from Mexico, in 1846. 
Adamia versicolor, Fortune, (various- 
coloured Adamia.) — Hydrangeaeeas. — A fine 
green house bush, with oblong lanceolate 
leaves, having much the appearance of those of 
Hydrangea japonica. The flowers grow in a 
pyramidal panicle, nearly a foot in diameter, 
violet blue when expanded, but white when in 
bud; they are nearly an inch in diameter, of 
seven (or six) petals forming a pointed star. 
In a wild state, the flowers are succeeded by 
fine blue berries. It was introduced to the 
garden of the Horticultural Society in July, 
1844, by Mr. Fortune, from China, where it 
grows in ravines half way up the montains, on 
the island of Hong Kong. This will be a 
very ornamental plant. 
Adenium Honghel, Alpli. De Candolle, (the 
Honghel bush.) — Apocynaeea? § Wrighteae. — 
A dry-stove shrub, with one or two fleshy 
stems like those of a Plumieria, growing from 
a club-footed base ; these stems divide sparingly 
into a few dumpy branches, each bearing only 
two or three ovate oblong leaves, and several 
very handsome rose-coloured flowers of five 
ovate segments, on a cylindrical greenish tube. 
It is of exceedingly slow growth, and requires 
but little water. Introduced from Aden to 
the garden of the Horticultural Society about 
1845, by the East India Company, where it 
bloomed in June 1846. It appears to be 
widely dispersed through Africa and the neigh- 
bouring pare of Asia. 
Adenocaltmna comosum, De Candolle, 
(hop-flowered Adenocalymna.) — Bignonia- 
ceae. — A handsome stove shrubby climbing 
plant, with rough dotted stems, and opposite 
trifoliate leaves, with ovate leaflets. The 
flowers are borne in racemes, both terminal 
and axillary, which are densely clothed with 
large bracts, which makes them look like the 
aments (or catkins) of the hop ; the bracts 
fall off before the flowers open ; the latter are 
trumpet-shaped, two-lipped, with a wide- 
spreading limb, divided into five large rounded 
lobes ; they are large, handsome, and bright 
yellow-coloured. It blooms in the autumn, 
and was sent, in 1841, from Rio, to the garden 
at Ii"ew. It is also called Bir/nonia comosa. 
-ZEschtnanthus Boschianus, De Vriese, 
(Bosch's Blushwort.) — Gesneraceas § Cyr- 
tandrese. — A very beautiful epiphytal stove 
evergreen shrub, with slender trailing stems, 
rooting at the joints, small ovate opposite 
fleshy leaves, an inch and a half in length, and 
axillary clusters of blossoms ; these are deep 
scarlet, downy, three inches long, tubular and 
curved, very wide at the orifice, and divided 
into five lobes, yellowish at the throat, and 
streaked with reddish purple. It blooms very 
freely under good management during the 
spring and summer months. Introduced from 
the Continent in 1844 ; native of the Island 
of Java, where it grows as an epiphyte. Both 
this and the following species grow well in 
the orchid house, and have a pretty appearance 
when allowed to hang down from a suspended 
pot, basket, or block. 
.ZEschtnanthus Horsfieldii, Brown, 
(Horsefield's Blushwort.) — A handsome ever- 
green glabrous stove shrub, of erect habit, and 
medium strength, with opposite ovate lanceo- 
late pointed leaves, and light scarlet flowers, 
two inches long, with a deeply divided calyx, 
borne very freely along the branches from the 
axils of the leaves in pairs, or more numerous. 
It is a native of Java, blooms through the 
summer, and was introduced in 1843. 
-ZEschtnanthus Lobbianus, Hooker, (Mr. 
Lobb's Blushwort.) — A very handsome ever- 
green shrubby stove plant, with trailing and 
rooting purple stems, furnished with opposite 
elliptic or ovate lance-shaped pointed fleshy 
leaves, upwards of two inches long, and tinged 
with purple ; it has fine large deep scarlet 
downy flowers, two inches and a half long, set 
in large inflated tubular chocolate or lurid- 
coloured calices ; they grow in corymbs near 
the points of the shoots, and sometimes several 
together in the axils of the leaves, and are very 
