NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
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glandularly serrated, as are also the bracts; 
the flowers are in a terminal racemose spike, 
small, and pale reddish lilac. It grows two 
and a half feet high, and flowers in September 
and October. Introduced from North Caro- 
lina to the garden of the Horticultural Society. 
It is called also Lobelia crassiuscida, and 
-Rapuntium glandulosum. 
Lycopodium cesium, Lindley, (grey Club- 
moss.) — Lycopodiacese. — A handsome branch- 
ing plant from China, growing well in a green- 
house, or in company with the other Lycopo- 
diums in a damp cool stove. It is of a very 
pretty spreading habit, and the leaves are of 
a greyish or glaucous hue. It was introduced 
from China in 1846. 
Lysijiachia Candida, Lindley, (white- 
flowered Loosestrife.) — Primulaceoa § Primu- 
lideaj. — A herbaceous perennial of compact 
habit, growing about a foot high, with 
narrowly oval root leaves, about four inches 
long, those on the stems being very narrow 
and somewhat spathulate ; they are all marked 
by scattered dark purple dots, which are not 
seen except by transmitted light. The flowers, 
which grow in close racemes, are white, and 
very profusely produced. It was raised in 
the spring of 1846, from the soil contained in 
one of the boxes sent from China, by Mr. 
Fortune, to the Horticultural Society. 
Manettia uniflora, Humboldt, B. ct K. 
( one -flowered Manettea. ) — Cinchonaceas 
§ Cinchonidai. — A pretty stove climber, 
hirsute in every part, with ovate acuminate 
leaves, and tube shaped flowers of a deep rose 
colour, becoming very pale before falling off" ; 
they are produced singly on the branches in 
great profusion, from September throughout 
the winter. It was introduced from New 
Andalusia and Santa Martha in 1844. 
MASTACAT-Tnus SINENSIS, Endlicher, (Chi- 
nese Beard wort.) — Verbenaceas. — A neat 
autumn flowering, green house, herbaceous 
perennial, erect, and from one and a half to 
two feet high. It has oblong oval opposite 
leaves, deeply and obtusely serrated ; the 
(lowers are in close whorls at the upper part of 
the stems, and are small, numerous, and of a 
violet colour, from which circumstance, and from 
its period of flowering, rather than from any- 
thing striking in the plant itself, it is likely to 
be useful in cultivation. It flowers in autumn. 
The Horticultural Society received it in 1844 
from their collector in China, where it grows 
wild in the neighbourhood of Canton, also at 
Chusan and Koo-lung-goo. It is also called 
li/irbulu sinensis. 
Mtjlsedidm macuoriiizon, Rnyle, (large- 
rooted Mulgcde.) — Composite § Hieraciese. 
— A herbaceous perennial, nearly or quite 
bar'!}', a:id suffering more from wet than cold. 
It has thick fleshy routs, which are much in- 
jured by damp ; the stems are trailing, two 
feet long, and but a few inches high ; the leaves 
are amplexicaul, pinnatifid, with large, rounded 
lobes ; the flowers are produced in a sub- 
corymbose manner ; they are pale blue, and 
about the size, shape, and colour of those of 
wild endive or succory (Cichorium Intybus). 
It is a pretty plant for rock-work, flowering 
through September and October, and increased 
by seeds. Raised in 1844, from seeds collected 
in Cashmere. 
Neptcnia plena, Bentham, (double yellow 
Water sensitive.) — Fabaceas (Leguminosae) 
§ Mimosea?. — An interesting mimosa-like 
perennial water plant, with bipinnated sensi- 
tive leaves, and ovate globose heads of pale 
yellow flowers. The stem is long, prostrate 
at the base, spongy, and floating, throwing 
out innumerable thread like roots. At the 
base of the leaves are two membranous 
oblique cordate stipules ; and the peduncles, 
which support single heads of flowers, have 
one or two bracts resembling the stipules. It 
has been sent from Jamaica to this country, 
and seems also to be common to ail parts of 
tropical America. It requires a stove. It 
has many synonymes ; as Mimosa plena, 31. 
punctata, M. adenanthera, Desmanilms plenus, 
D. punctatus, D. polyphyllus, and Neptunia 
polyphylla. 
NYJiPiiiEA dentata, Schumacher, (tooth- 
leaved Lotus). — Nymphasacea? § Nupharida;. 
— A stove aquatic plant, with large floating 
orbiculate ovate leaves, strongly and irregu- 
larly toothed. The flowers are large and 
white, a good deal like those of the common 
water-lily (Nympha?a alba). It was intro- 
duced from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, and Co. about 1845, and produced its 
flowers in their stove in August 1846. It 
seems to be extensively distributed in Africa, 
a country which is famous for stove aquatics, 
the magnificent Victoria regia, as well as 
many others, being found there. 
Oncidium unguiculatum, Lindley, (un- 
guiculate, or clawed Oncid). — Orchidacere 
§ Vanderc-Brassidns. An epiphytal species, 
with oval pseudo-bulbs, bearing two or three 
lance shaped leaves a foot long. The flower- stem, 
or scape, is six feet high, divided into several 
branches, on which the large flowers are pro- 
duced ; they are very large and showy, 
the sepals and petals being greenish yellow, 
spotted with brown ; and the lip three-lobed, 
of a pure bright yellow, the middle lobe being 
remarkable for tlie length of its base or claw. 
It is one of the finest yellow oncids in culti- 
vation. Purchased at a sale of Mexican 
orchids - 
OpinoroGON prolifer, Lindley, (proli- 
ferous Ophiopogon.) — Liliacea; § Ophiopogo- 
nix.— An evergreen herbaceous stove-plant, 
