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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Dendrobium Farmekii, Paxl07i (Mr. 
Farmer's Dendrobe). — Orchidacese§ Malaxese- 
Dendrobidse. — A very beautiful epiphytal 
species, having the habit of D. densijiuntiii. 
The stems are angular, club-shaped, thickened 
upwards, bearing towards the summit three or 
four oblong acute leaves. The flowers are 
borne in long lateral drooping racemes, each 
supporting many flowers ; they are large and 
very handsome ; the sepals spreading, ovate 
obtuse, of a rich and very delicate tinge of 
rose colour ; the petals are larger, of a very 
delicate straw colour, ciliated, the lip broad, 
almost squared, clawed, and ciliated, of a pale 
straw colour, with a deep yellow blotch an 
inch in diameter. Native of the East Indies, 
having been received from Dr. McClelland 
of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, as D. 
densijiorum, from which it very strikingly 
differs. Introduced in 1847. Flowers in 
March. Culture. — Requires a hot moist 
stove ; turfy peat soil, mixed with chopped 
sphagnum moss ; propagated by division of 
the plant. 
Chironia glutinosa, Paxton (glutinous 
Chironia). — Gentianacese § Gentianeaa, — A 
very handsome evergreen suffruticose plant, 
with a smooth stem, and numerous, somewhat 
succulent, spreading branches. The leaves 
are opposite, of an ovate-lanceolate form, 
three to five-veined. The flowers are nume- 
rous on the young shoots, and are large, being 
two inches or upwards in diameter, and of a 
bright red colour tinged with lilac ; the limb 
of the corolla is five-parted and widely spread- 
ing. Supposed to have been raised from 
Australian seeds in the Hull Botanic Garden, 
but its history is obscure. Introduced pro- 
bably about 1844. Flowers for several months 
in summer. Culture. — Requires a greenhouse ; 
peat, loam, and leaf-mould, with abundance of 
drainage ; propagated easily by cuttings 
planted in sand, with a little bottom heat. 
Acacia salicina, Lindley (Willow Wat- 
tle or Acacia). — Fabacese § Mimoseas-Acacieas. 
— This is a very handsome conservatory 
shrub, of large growth, soon attaining twelve 
or fifteen feet high. The branches are slen- 
der, and drooping like those of the weeping 
willow, and the foliage has the same narrow 
lance- shaped form. The whole plant is glau- 
cous, being slightly covered with bloom ; the 
branches are angular ; the leaves (phyllodia) 
are linear or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, one- 
nerved, and sprinkled on the under side with 
numerous reddish minute drops of resin. The 
flowers grow in short racemes of from three 
to five heads, and are of a pale yellow colour. 
When planted out in a conservatory, this 
species is almost always in blossom. Native 
of New Holland. It is one of the plants 
found by Sir T. Mitchell, during his survey- 
ing expeditions, and was found by him in 
woods, near the Lachlan River. Introduced 
in 1844 (?) Flowers throughout the year, most 
copiously in spring. Culture. — Requires a 
greenhouse ; turfy loam, and peat ; propa- 
gated by seeds, or by cuttings which root 
slowly in sand, under bell-glasses. 
Uropedium Lindenii, Lindley (Mr. Lin- 
den's Uropedium). — Orchidaceaa § Cypri- 
pedeaj. — A very singular and magnificent 
plant, with exactly the habit of Cypripedium 
insigne. It is a perennial, with thick shining 
fleshy persistent leaves, a foot long, blunt and 
unequally tw T o-toothed at the point. The 
flowers are borne singly on downy stalks 
something shorter than the leaves, and are 
very remarkable in consequence of the tail- 
like length of the petals ; the upper sepal is 
ovate-lanceolate, four inches long, the lower 
ones united into one of the same form but 
rather wider, all being of a pale yellow colour 
streaked with orange ; the petals are linear- 
lanceolate, extended into a long narrow tail, 
and about eight or nine inches long, purple- 
orange at the base ; the lip is of the same 
form, but broader, and is, like the sepals, 
shaggy at the base. The flowers measure 
from fifteen to twenty inches in their greatest 
diameter. Native of Colombia, growing on 
the ground in the woods of the Savannah, in 
that elevated part of the Cordillera which 
overlooks the vast forests at the bottom of the 
Lake of Maracaybo ; altitude 8500 feet. In- 
troduced in 1848, and dispersed at an auction 
sale. Flowers in ? Culture. — Requires 
a stove ; turfy peat soil j propagated by 
division of the plant. 
Picrorhiza Kurroa, Royle (Kurroa Pi- 
crorhiza). — Scrophulariaceas § Rhinanthidea?. 
— An herbaceous perennial, having thick fleshy 
roots, which are intensely bitter, and used in 
the native medicine of India. The plant at- 
tains a height of about six inches, the stems 
being ascending. The leaves are obovate, 
tapering to the base, serrated on the margin, 
and nearly or quite smooth. The flowers are 
deep blue, and sessile in dense spikes, but not 
remarkable for showiness. Native of Northern 
India. Introduced in 1846. Flowers in July 
and August. This plant was called Veronica 
Lindleyana by Wallich. Culture. — Hardy, 
requiring only protection against wet in win- 
ter; rich light soil; propagated readily by 
division of the plant. 
Tradescantia glauca, Lindley (glaucous 
Spiderwort). — Commelynaceae. — A pretty 
little stove herbaceous plant, smooth, glaucous 
and ascending. The leaves are oblong, acu- 
minate, and remarkable from the peculiarity of 
clasping the stem by their base. The flowers 
are small, somewhat umbellate, the principal 
rays being very long, and the partial ones very 
