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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
with a slender stem, not thicker than a 
swan's quill, and bearing at intervals clusters 
of bright green sword-shaped leaves, and 
small white flowers. It was received from 
Penang. Not very showy. 
Ophrys coenuta, Stevens, (horned 
Ophrys.) — Orchidacea? § Ophresc-Serapiadas. 
; — A curious little terrestrial orchid, resembling 
our native bee orchis, but remarkable from 
the two narrow spreading horns of the flowers. 
The sepals are lilac, and the lip is curiously 
and variously marked ; sometimes deep 
chocolate, chequered with white ; in others 
reddish, marked with green. It is found in 
the Crimea, in Dalmatia, in Hungary and 
Macedonia, and recently by Dr. Herbert in 
Corfu. Also called 0. bicorrm, and O.cestri- 
fera. 
Oxalis articuxata, Savigny, (jointed- 
rooted Wood-sorrel.) — Oxalidacese. — A pretty 
half-hardy species in the way of 0. Deppei. It 
is a bulbous perennial, with trifoliolate leaves 
and deep rose-coloured flowers, produced in 
July and August, and growing eighteen inches 
high. It is a native of Monte Video, and may 
either be grown in a frame or in a dry border, 
protected by moss or litter. 
Oxaus seksitita, Linnmus, (sensitive 
"Wood-sorrel.) — An interesting dwarf annual 
stove plant, with a stem an inch or two long, 
from which proceeds a tuft of handsome pin- 
nated leaves, which are sensitive, and nume- 
rous flower stems, bearing several small yellow 
flowers at the top. It is found extensively in 
the tropical parts of Asia, and often grows up 
among the soil of plants received from the 
East Indies. Introduced in 1844. (?) 
PjEOnia Wittmannlana, Lindley, (yellow 
Pasony.) — Ranunculaceas § Helleboreas. — The 
most remarkable trait in the character of this 
plant is the yellow colour of its flowers, which 
character is at least a novelty among pasonies. 
It is not like the splendid double kinds grown 
in our gardens, but has single flowers of 
medium size. The plant is herbaceous, with 
triternate leaves, the leaflets of which are 
oval and entire. It is quite hardy, and 
flowers in May. Nothing is known certainly 
of its history, except that it was received by 
the Horticultural Society from Mr. Hartwiss 
(whose manuscript name is adopted), the 
director of the Nitika Garden in the Crimea. 
It is very costly. 
Passiflora difforme, Humboldt, B. et. K. 
(various-leaved Passion-flower.) — Passiflora- 
ceae. — A curious stove species, of climbing 
habit, with leaves having two (scarcely three) 
horizontally divergent acuminated lobes, and 
small green and black flowers, produced during 
autumn and winter. Humboldt found it in 
New Grenada ; and it has been recently sent 
V>T Mr. Purdie from Santa Martha. 
Phlebodium NiTrouii, J. Smith, (shining 
Phlebodium.) — Polypodyacea? § Polypodea?. — ■ 
A stove fern, with a creeping chaffy rhizoma, 
and oblong elliptical fronds, obtuse and rounded 
at the apex, acute at the base. It was intro- 
duced from Honduras in 1844. 
Phlox clarkioides, Maund, ( clarkia- 
like Phlox.) — Polemoniacese. — Under this 
name Mr. Maund has figured a pretty species 
of Phlox, but without any particulars of its 
history further than that it is a native of 
America, and was introduced in 1844. It is 
a middle sized herbaceous perennial species, 
flowering in August, with deep lilac flowers, 
remarkable for having the tube split, which 
gives them some resemblance to a Clarkia. 
Phtsostelma campanulata, Decaisnc, 
(bell-flowered Physostelma.) — Asclepiadaceaj 
§ Stapeliaa. — This is a neat climbing evergreen 
shrub, of medium growth, the branches fur- 
nished with opposite oblong acuminate leaves, 
four inches long ; the flowers grow in dense 
umbels ; individually they are an inch in dia- 
meter, flatly bell shaped, of a waxy texture, 
and shining ; in the centre is a small waxy 
star ; the whole is cream coloured. It is a 
stove plant, blooming in October, and is both 
pretty and singular. It was imported from 
Java by Messrs. Veitch in 1845, and flowered 
in their nursery in the autumn of 1846. Also 
called Hoya campanidata. 
Pinguicula orchidioides, Alph. De Can- 
dolle, (orchis-like Butterwort.) — Lentibu- 
lariaeeaj. — A handsome dwarf perennial green- 
house plant, with a tuft of obovate spathulate 
concave leaves, from among which the flower 
stems arise, each bearing one large handsome 
purple flower, consisting of five spreading 
lobes, and a long cylindrical spur. It has 
bloomed during the winter. Introduced in 
1844 (?) from Real del Monte, in Mexico; to 
Kew, where it is cultivated in a cool stove, in 
pots, kept plunged among sphagnum moss, it 
being a sub-aquatic. 
Pinus cembroides, Zuccarini, (Cembra- 
like Pine.) — Pinaceas § Abieteas. — A hardy 
tree, allied to Pinus Llaveana. Its three- 
cornered needle-shaped leaves are from an inch 
to an inch and a half long, and grow in threes: 
the cones grow singly, and are bluntly conical, 
about three inches long, formed of blunt scales. 
It was sent by Mr. Hartweg to the Horticul- 
tural Society from the cold districts of the 
mountain Orizaba in Mexico, 10,000 feet 
above the sea, where it grows thirty feet high. 
Pinus Orizaba, Gordon, (OrizabeanPine.) 
— A tree of moderate size, with three-cornered 
leaves, from eight to nine inches long, growing 
in fives. The cones grow in clusters of four 
or five ; they are fuur or five inches long, and 
the scales are slightly hooked. It was sent 
by Mr. Hartweg to the Horticultural Society 
