NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
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gins j the raceme is terminal, dense, leafy, the 
lower part usually measuring two inches in 
diameter, tapering to a point. The flowers 
are of a cobalt blue, and have a very fine 
appearance from their aggregate arrangement. 
Native country not stated. Introduced in 
1847. Flowers during the summer months. 
Culture. — Hardy, or nearly so ; light rich 
loamy soil ; propagated by division of the 
roots. 
Anemone nivalis, Maund (snowy Wind- 
flower). — Ranunculaceas § Anemoneas. — A 
very pretty herbaceous perennial, growing 
about a foot and a half high, with compoundly 
divided root leaves, and a branching scape 
bearing numerous snowy-white flowers, which 
on the outside are tinged with purple. It is 
a very pretty species, with something the 
habit of A. vitifolia. Native of the northern 
parts of India. Introduced in 1844. Flowers 
in June. Culture. — Hardy; requires a free 
and rather dry soil ; propagated slowly by 
division, more readily by seeds. 
Cuecuma coedata, Wallich (heart-leaved 
Curcuma). — Zinziberacea?. — A beautiful her- 
baceous perennial plant, with a short stem-like 
base formed by the sheathing bases of the 
leaf-stalks. The leaves are a foot long, ar- 
ranged in two rows, ovate acuminate, with a 
heart-shaped base, and of a full green colour. 
The flower-spike arises from the centre of the 
plant, erect; it is cylindrical -oblong, and 
clothed with the bracteas, organs so con- 
spicuous in this genus ; these bracts are ovate 
obtuse, ranged in five rows, green, with the 
apex reflexed and much darker in colour ; 
within each of these, for three-fourths the 
height of the spike, is a flower coloured 
yellow, orange, and pink. The upper part of 
the spike is barren, and here the bracts are 
larger, less obtuse, and of a rich violet colour, 
with a deep purple or blood-coloured spot in 
the centre of each. These coloured bracts 
form an elegant crown to the flower spike. 
Native of the East Indies. Introduced about 
1845. Flowers in July. Culture. — Requires 
a moist stove, and a season of repose ; light 
loam and leaf-mould ; propagated by dividing 
the roots. 
NA\AnKVTiAPTJBESCEXs,HookerandArnolt 
(pubescent Navarretia). — Polemoniaceas. — 
A hardy annual, somewhat showy when seen 
in masses, but not first-rate. It grows about 
six inches high, and is dwarf, branching, and 
hairy, with bipinnatifid leaves, having linear 
acute somewhat divaricated lobes ; the herbage 
has little smell. The flowers are grayish- 
blue, with a purple tube less than half an inch 
long, a dark eye, and prominent white anthers; 
they are nearly allied to, and somewhat resem- 
ble those of the Gilias. Native of California 
in fields about Sonoma. Introduced in 1848. 
Flowers in June and July. Culture. — Hardy; 
common garden soil ; propagated by seeds. 
Navarretia GOTULyEFOLiA, Tloolier and Ar- 
nott (cotula-leaved Navarretia). — Polemoni- 
aceas. — A diminutive annual plant, growing 
about two inches high, and hence lit for scat- 
tering on rockwork. The stems are strag- 
gling, and reddish, but scarcely hairy, clothed 
with soft pinnatifid or somewhat bipinnatifid 
leaves, the lobes of which are linear and 
acute; the herbage of this species has a dis- 
agreeable foxy odour which some others of 
its congeners possess. The flowers grow in 
close axillary heads, and are small, white and 
inconspicuous ; the segments of the corolla 
are linear, and the calyces are very spiny. 
Native of California, in fields about Sonoma. 
Introduced in 1847. Flowers in June and 
July. Culture. — Hardy ; should be sown in 
masses ; common garden soil ; propagated by 
seeds. This species may be scattered over 
rockwork. 
Eriostemon intermedium, Hooher (inter- 
mediate Eriostemon). — Rutaceas § Boronieas. 
— A very handsome much branched shrub, 
clothed with copious scattered spi'eading 
leaves, entire and of an oblong-ovate figure, 
from three quarters of an inch to an inch and 
a half in length ; they are cuspidate and 
somewhat glaucous, especially beneath, where 
they have copious glandular reservoirs of oil. 
The flowers are axillary, and produced freely 
on all the young branches, so that a vigorous 
plant becomes loaded with them ; they are 
rather large, starry when the five lance-shaped 
petals are expanded, Avhite externally tinged 
with rose-colour, which is especially manifest 
in the bud state. Native of New Holland. 
Introduced about 1847. Flowers in April. 
This plant is sometimes known in gardens as 
the E. neriifoUum (Sieber). Culture. — Re- 
quires a greenhouse; turfy peat soil mixed 
with sharp white sand ; propagated by cut- 
tings, by seeds when they can be had, or by 
grafting on the Correct alba. 
Oncidium flabelliferum, Pinel (fan- 
lipped Oncid). — Orchidaceas § Vandeas-Bras- 
sidas. — A very beautiful epiphytal plant, the 
pseudo-bulbs two inches or more long, bearing 
each from one to three lanceolate leaves. The 
flower scapes are a foot and a half long, bear- 
ing numerous flowers, which are large and 
very showy, the sepals and petals ovate-lan- 
ceolate, waved at the edges, spotted and 
striped with purplish brown ; the lip is large, 
spreading, fan-shaped, crisped at the margins, 
bright yellow, with a broad belt of close 
spots of purple -brown around the lower 
margin. It is a very ornamental species. 
Native of Brazil. Introduced in 1846 by M. 
Pinel, " a botanist and collector of plants 
residing in the Brazils," to the nursery of 
