54G 
NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
chiefly interesting to the botanist. It was re- 
ceived from Guatemala, from G. U. Skinner, 
Esq., by the Horticultural Society, in the spring 
of 1846. 
Fugosia hake-sfolia, Hooker, (hakea- 
leaved Fugosia.) — Malvaceae § Hibisceoe. — A 
greenhouse shrub, growing erect, four or five 
feet high, and but sparingly branched. The 
leaves, which are few, are very variable, the 
lower ones being bipinnatifid with long linear 
segments ; the intermediate ones with three 
segments, and upper ones entire. The flowers 
are large and handsome, issuing from the axils 
of the leaves, of a purple-lilac colour, paler 
towards the centre, and marked at the base of 
each of the five petals with a dark purple-red 
radiating spot. The flowers remain many days 
expanded, but the petals soon reflex. Raised 
from Swan River seeds by Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, & Co. in 1846, and blooms profusely 
in the summer. It was formerly called Hibis- 
cus hakeeefulius, and is nearly allied to H. 
lilacinus. 
Fugosia heterophylla, Spach, (various- 
leaved Fugosia.) — This is a rather pretty stove 
sub-shrubby plant, with elliptic lanceolate or 
oval leaves, and axillary roundish solitary 
flowers, of a pale yellow colour, with a pecti- 
nated (comb-shaped) blood-coloured spot in 
the centre. It was sent by Mr. Purdie from 
Santa Martha, in 1845, and was first flowered 
at Sion House. It is also called Redoutea 
heterophylla. 
Gardenia Devoniana, Lindley, (Duke of 
Devonshire's Gardenia.) — Cinchonacese § Gar- 
denideaj. — This is the finest of the Gardenias 
yet known. It is a stove shrub, the branches 
of which are unarmed. It has opposite stalked 
oblong-acuminate leaves, thin in texture, and 
solitary erect terminal flowers. The latter are 
very long — ten inches and a half before ex- 
pansion — with a slender cylindrical tube, and 
funnel-shaped limb, with five obtuse lobes. 
They are pure white at first, and look like a 
long-tubed white lily, but gradually change to 
a pale yellow. It is a native of Sierra Leone, 
whence it was introduced in 1845, and is cul- 
tivated by Mr. Glendinning, nurseryman, of 
Chiswick, who has recently bloomed it. 
Gardenia Florida, var. Fortuniana, (Mr. 
Fortune's Gardenia.) — -This is a very showy 
greenhouse shrub, resembling the larger Gar- 
denia grown in our gardens, but having much 
larger blossoms, the latter being nearly four 
inches in diameter, and double, of a pure white, 
changing to light buff as they go off", and not 
unlike a very large double camellia, which it 
infinitely excels in its delicious odour. It has 
fine broad evergreen leaves, often six inches 
long. Introduced in 1845 to the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, by Mr. Fortune. 
Gesnera bulbosa, var. lateritia, (brick- 
coloured tuberous Gesnera.) — Gesneraeeas § 
Gesnereffi. — Gesnera bulbosa is a tuberous- 
rooted stove species, with herbaceous stems, 
opposite ovate-elliptic leaves, and very showy 
long tubular scarlet flowers, very much pro- 
longed on the upper side or lip. The present 
variety differs in having the racemes drooping, 
and the flowers pale brick-coloured. It flowers 
in the summer, and was introduced to Kew in 
1844, by Mr. "W. Purdie, from Santa Martha. 
It seems probable that G. bulbosa properly in- 
cludes as varieties many other so-called species. 
Gesnera elliptica, Hooker, (elliptic- 
leaved Gesnera.) — A herbaceous stove plant, 
with upright stems and opposite elliptic obtuse 
leaves, and bearing its tubular two-lipped 
flowers in a handsome raceme at the ends of 
the branches. The colour of the flowers is 
variable; some varieties are bright red, others 
brick-coloured, and one is a clear pale yellow. 
The latter, called var. lutea, is the most dis- 
tinct and remarkable. It flowers in May and 
through the summer months, and was sent to 
Kew by Mr. Purdie in 1844, from the moun- 
tains of Santa Martha, in New Grenada. 
Gesnera hondensis, Humboldt, (Honda 
Gesnera.) — -A very fine stove species, with 
tuberous roots, and herbaceous stems, growing 
afoot or more high, and thickly furnished with 
opposite acutely ovate leaves. The flowers 
are an inch or more long, tubular, and slightly 
swollen, and are produced from the axils either 
singly, or two or three together, on separate 
stalks. The colour is yellow, clothed, except 
near the end, with shaggy bright red hairs. 
It may be had in flower at different periods of 
the year. It was originally found by Hum- 
boldt, at Honda, and was introduced to this 
country by the agency of Mr. Purdie, in 1845. 
Gloxinia pallldiflora, Hooker, (pale- 
flowered Gloxinia.) — Gesneraceas § Gesnereas. 
— This species is near to G. maculata, but is 
smaller and more slender. It has an erect herba- 
ceous spotless stem, with opposite leaves, broadly 
and obliquely ovate, and remotely and coarsely 
serrated. The flowers are large, solitary, and 
axillary, of a pale bluish-lilac tint, and shaped 
like those of other Gloxinias. Sent from Santa 
Martha in 1844, and flowers in October. 
Gloxinia speciosa, var. Passingluimii, 
(Passingham's Gloxinia.) — This plant is pro- 
bably a variety of G. speciosa, though intro- 
duced from Rio Janeiro, where it was found 
in a deep ravine, much shaded, and in a very 
damp situation, high up the Corcovado moun- 
tain. It has large deep rich violet coloured 
flowers, which are produced during the sum- 
mer. It was introduced about 1844. 
Gompholobicm Hugelii, Bentharn, (Ba- 
ron Hugel's Gompholobium.) — Leguminaceas § 
Papilionaceas. — A slender erect greenhouse 
shrub, with trifoliolate leaves, the leaflets of 
