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large white blossoms, which are very freely 
produced, 
Clerodendron. — We have two additions 
to record, both desirable stove plants. C. ca- 
pitatuui (Schumacher), a very strong grower 
with immense heads of creamy white flowers', 
and C. scandens (Beauvois), a climber, with 
white flowers tinged with pink. 
Ctmbidium eburnedm, Lindley, is a beau- 
tiful tropical orchid, with large ivory-white 
flowers, stained on the lip with yellow. 
DlPLADENIA UROPHYLLA, Hooker. This 
is a bushy shrub, apparently not at all climb- 
ing in habit. It is rather pretty, the racemes 
of somewhat bell-shaped salmon-coloured blos- 
soms hanging down gracefully among the 
leaves, which are however rather large ; it is 
a stove plant. 
ECHINOCACTUS CHLOROPTHALMUS, Hooker. 
Remarkable among the dwarf cacti for its pur- 
ple blossoms and green stigma, from which 
latter its specific name is derived — green-eyed. 
Episcia bicolor, Hooker. Dwarf with 
quite the habit of gloxinia, the foliage is broad 
and ample, and the numerous purple-and-white 
flowers spring from among the leaves ; very 
pretty. 
Fuchsia Spectabilis, Hooker, is a very 
fine species, perhaps the handsomest of all the 
known kinds. It is a very strong grower, and 
both leaves and flowers are large, but there is 
a richness about them ; the flowers are crim- 
son. Our only doubt is about the habit of the 
plant. 
Gesnera libanensis, Morten, is a dwarf 
herbaceous stove plant, bearing a remarkable 
profusion of rich scarlet flowers, with com- 
paratively unobtrusive foliage ; very pretty. 
Hoya bella, Hooker. One of the love- 
liest of plants ; dwarf, spreading, rather droop- 
ing in habit, small in stature, with umbels of 
pure white blossoms with a purple crown — 
small absolutely, but large in comparison with 
the 01 her parts, the whole plant being small. 
Its habit adapts it for growing in suspended 
baskets in stoves. 
Impatiens repens, Moon, a yellow flow- 
ered balsam, of spreading and diffusely branch- 
ing habit; has very small leaves, and a profusion 
of flowers, which renders it worth a place 
where stove plants are accommodated. 
Leuchtenbergia principis, Hooker, is a 
remarkable cactus, with the mammillae pro- 
longed like the leaves of some aloe; the flowers 
are yellow. It should form one of a collection 
of these curious plants. 
Metternichia princeps, Mikan, is a 
solanaceous shrub of the larger class, which 
bears profuse beautiful trumpet-shaped white 
flowers, something like those of the Datura 
arborea; it requires a stove. 
Mitraria coccinea, Cavanilles, is a dis- 
tinct and somewhat handsome sub-climbing 
shrub, the blossoms of which are scarlet, tubu- 
lar, and much bellied on one side ; they hang 
on long slender stalks ; the plant is probably 
sufficiently hardy to succeed against a shel- 
tered wall. 
Nemophila maculata, Bentham, is an 
annual, resembling in habit and appearance 
the N. insignis, but the flowers are white, 
with a good-sized blotch on the tip of each 
division of the corolla ; when true, it is very 
pretty, but it is liable to sport and degenerate. 
Nepenthes l^evis, Lindley, is a smooth 
pitcher-plant, with narrow shiny leaves, 
bearing pitchers from two to four inches long, 
contracted towards the mouth, the brim being 
without ribs. An interesting addition to this 
singular race of stove plants. 
Passiflora amabilis, Hooker, is, we should 
think, one of the prettiest of passion-flowers. 
The leaves are whole, that is, not lobed, and 
the flowers are scarlet-red, the filamentous 
crown being white ; the effect of this con- 
trast is admirable ; it is a stove plant. 
Plumbago Larpent^e, Lindley, does not 
prove so good as was anticipated ; its habit is 
good, and so is its colour — a bright blue, but 
the flowers are flimsy, and soon fade, and, 
moreover, do not fall, but w : ther on the plant. 
From its habit and colour, it may be useful to 
breed from. 
Primula Stuarth, WaUich, is a fine yel- 
low-flowered primrose, quite hardy, and very 
desirable for the border ; it prefers a north 
aspected peat border. 
Rhododendron. — Some important ad- 
ditions have been made to this genus, in the 
case of some epiphytal kinds, natives of Bor- 
neo. One of these, at least, R. Brookeanum 
(Low), is introduced ; it is an evergreen shrub, 
epiphytal, and bearing golden- yellow or cop- 
pery-red blossoms. R. gracile (Low), has the 
flowers fiery red ; R. longiflorum (Lindley), 
crimson ; and R. verticillatum (Low), red- 
dish crimsom. These have all the same habit. 
R. barbatum (Waliich), is a beautiful and 
very distinct Nepal species, with rosy-red 
flowers nearly round and flat. R. nilagiri- 
cum (Zenker), also a Nepal kind, has delicate 
rose-coloured flowers, with a pale centre. 
SlPHOCAMPYLUS MANETTLEFLORUS, Hooker, 
is a dwarf compact plant, with small obovate 
leaves and numerous little tubes of scarlet 
and yellow, giving it a very ornamental ap- 
pearance. It is a stove plant. 
Thibaudia microphylla, Lindley, is an- 
other evergreen ericaceous shrub, remarkable 
for its neat foliage and scarlet or purple 
flowers. It is a fine greenhouse shrub. 
Vanda sua vis, Lindley, has very fragrant 
as well as ornamental blossoms ; they are 
white, with reddish-brown and violet mark- 
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