NEW PLANTS aSD SHRUBS. 
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/lowers : the flowers are in terminal panicles 
formed of lax racemes, each bearing two to 
four drooping (large, for this genus) bright 
red, or scarlet flowers, consisting of a tubular, 
coloured calyx, and six petals, the four lower 
ones very small, the two upper ones very large 
and expanding like wings. Introduced by 
Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, from hills and woods 
in Peru, about Huassahuassi, Chaclla, Acomayo 
and Iluanuco. It flowers in August. Intro- 
duced in 1844. 
Cuphea plattcentra, Bentham, (broad- 
spurred Cuphea.) — A very neat and desirable 
half-hardy suffruticose plant, suitable for "bed- 
ding out " in summer. It has opposite elliptic 
pointed leaves, narrowed to the base, and bears 
very numerously bright scarlet tubular flowers, 
having a short rounded spur at the base. In 
a dry warm situation out of doors it is very 
showy. It was introduced from Mexico in 
1 846, by Joseph Anderson, Esq. of the Holme, 
Regent's Park, who obtained it from among 
some Mexican orchids purchased of Mr. 
Skinner. 
Cuphea mtniata, of gardens, (vermilion- 
coloured Cuphea.) — Averyshowy sub-shrubby 
plant, requiring to be grown'in a warm green- 
house. It is an erect plant, of free growth, 
with opposite ovate-lanceolate hairy leaves, 
and tubular flowers, deep purple at the mouth, 
covered with whitish hairs, and having two 
large brilliant crimson petals, expanded like 
mill-sails at the end of the tube on the upper 
side. 
Cyclamen littokale, Sadler, (shore 
Cyclamen.) — Primulacea; § Primulidea?. — A 
pretty little hardy perennial with small spherical 
roots, entire, subrotund, heart-shaped, spotted 
leaves, and pretty rose-coloured flowers ; it 
grows only three or four inches high, and 
blooms in the spring. Roots were brought 
from the Lake of Como by Mr. Bentham in 
1843 (?) and presented to the Horticultural 
Society. The nomenclature of Cyclamens is 
in a very confused state, but this plant ap- 
pears to have been included by some botanists 
as a variety of C. europaeum. 
CvcNOcnES Egertonianum, var. viride, 
(green Egcrtonian Swan-neck.) — Orchidaceoe 
§ Vandeaj-Catasctida;. — The so-called species 
of Cycnoches are several of them known to mas- 
querade, and assume each other's forms. The 
long-spiked, small purple-flowered C.Egerton- ' 
ianum, for instance, sometimes blooms as 
the short-spiked, large green-flowered C. ven- 
tricosum, and the fame thing occurs in others. 
C. Egertonianum viride is a pale green-flowered 
variety of that species, and is not remarkable 
for beauty. It was imported from Oaxaca by 
Messrs. Loddiges in 1843, and in their cata- 
logue is called C. stelliferum. 
Cvpuipedium ihapeanum, Llave and Lex- 
arza, (Irapean Lady's slipper, or Pelican 
flower.) — Orchidacea? § Cypripedese. — A 
green-house perennial, or terrestrial orchid, 
with short upright hairy stems, ovate pointed 
hairy leaves, and very large yellow flowers at 
the top of the stem : these grow two or more 
on the stem, according to the strength of the 
plant. The flowers are beautiful, with oblong 
sepals, and petals more or less hairy, the lip 
forming a large obovate pouch, at the mouth 
of which are a few crimson blotches. It is a 
native of Mexico, and is named from being 
found near the town of Irapeo. It blooms in 
the summer months. Introduced in 1846. 
Daphne Fortuni, Lindley. (Mr. Fortune's 
Daphne.) — Thymelacea?. — This is a very 
beautiful green-house, or half-hardy bush ; 
it has thin deciduous opposite ovate-oblong 
leaves, covered with very soft fine hairs. The 
flowers are arranged in clusters of four, upon 
branches scarcely beginning to put forth their 
leaves ; they are bluish-lilac, rather more than 
an inch long, divided at the end into four 
roundish oblong lobes. It was sent, in 1844, 
by Mr. Fortune, from China, where it is met 
with on the Cliusan hills, at Ningpo and 
Shanghae. Besides being a handsome green- 
house shrub, the plant seems well adapted for 
forcing. It first bloomed in January, 1846. 
Datura cornigera, Hooker, (horn-bear- 
ing Datura.) — Solanaceas § Curvernbryas. — 
A showy shrubby species of Datura, allied to 
D. arborea, and known in gardens as Bmg- 
inansia Knightii,* and Datura frutescens. 
It is a strong growing plant, with large ovate 
leaves, and bears long, drooping, funnel-shaped, 
creamy-white flowers, during the summer and 
autumn. The mouth of the corolla is divided 
into five lobes, each of which terminates in a 
long, spreading, or recurved point. It requires 
a cool green-house, and in summer succeeds 
well in the open air. Its native country and 
time of introduction do not appear to be well 
known. 
Datura Gardneri, Hooher, (Mr. Gardner's 
Datura.) — This is one of the plants called 
Datura arborea in our gardens, but which is 
not the plant so named by Linnaeus. It is a 
shrubby plant, with ample leaves and drooping 
funnel-formed white flowers, borne profusely 
in summer and autumn. It grows well in a 
green-house, or in the open air in summer. 
It is found on the banks of streams on the 
Organ Mountains in Brazil, and was long 
since introduced. 
Daviesia niTSODES, Cunningham, (hatchet- 
leaved Daviesia.) — Leguminaceas § Papilio- 
naceas-Pulteneae. — An elegant green-house 
shrub, growing erect from two to four feet 
" There is another allied plant, with double flowers, 
which also bears tlii8 name iu gardens. 
