NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS 
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macrocarpus of some authors. Native of the 
mountains of Nepal ; " Myrung, on the Kho- 
seea hills." Introduced in 1837 by the Duke 
of Devonshire to Chatsworth. Flowers from 
December to March. Culture. — Requires a 
cool stove ; light rich loam ; propagated by 
cuttings, placed in a gentle heat. 
Heintzia t JGniK a, Karsten (spotted Ileint- 
zia). — Gesneraceaa § Gesnerea?. — A large- 
growing soft-stemmed plant, growing from 
four to five feet high, branching, bearing 
opposite leaves, which are nearly a foot in 
length, lanceolate, attenuated at the base, 
obtusely acuminate at the apex, and serrated 
at the margins ; the upper surface is dark 
green, and the under side blueish green, with 
prominent brownish veins. The flowers grow 
from the axils of the leaves, in a kind of cyme, 
supported by rose-coloured bracts, each blos- 
som having a large five-parted rose-coloured 
calyx ; the blossoms are slightly curved, an 
inch long, funnel-shaped, and expanding into 
an unequal five-lobed limb, of nearly an inch 
in diameter ; the surface has a satiny gloss, 
imparted by numerous short soft hairs ; the 
colour of the tube is snow-white, of the face of 
the limb white, with purple spots and freckles. 
The flowers are succeeded by nearly globular 
fruit, about the size of a hazel nut, surrounded 
by the persistent calyx. Native of Vene- 
zuela, in moist shady places, at an elevation of 
5,000 feet. Introduced to Berlin in 1845. 
Flowers in the summer. Culture. — Requires 
a stove, with a moist atmosphere, and shaded 
from the sun ; light open soil ; propagated by 
cuttings, or leaves planted as cuttings. 
Ccelogyne fuliginosa, Loddiges (dark- 
flowered Coelogyne). — Orckidaceas § Epiden- 
drese-Coelogynidae. — A dwarf, and rather 
pretty epiphyte. It has an elongated creep- 
ing caudex, from which, at intervals, grow 
the oblong compressed pseudo-bulbs, bearing 
each a pair of broadly lance-shaped wavy 
leaves, between membranaceous, and leathery 
in texture. The flowers grow in an erect 
secund raceme ; they are large, handsome, of 
an ochrey-yellow, with the central lobe of the 
lip dark purple-brown ; the sepals are oval- 
oblong, the petals shorter than the sepals, the 
lip oblong-spathulate, three-lobed. Native of 
India. Introduced in 1838. Flowers in the 
spring. Culture. — Requires a warm moist 
stove ; to be attached to a block of wood, and 
kept shaded from strong sun-rays ; propagated 
by division of the plant. 
Stannia Formosa, Karsten (beautiful Stan- 
nia). — Cinchonacea? § Cinchoneas-Gardeni- 
dea?. — This is a large shrub, or small tree, in 
its native state very beautiful. It forms a 
roundish head, of four-angled branches, bear- 
ing opposite leaves, which are from four to 
six inches long, oval, somewhat coriaceous, and 
of a shining green. The intra-petiolar stipules 
are elongate-triangular. The flowers grow at 
the ends of the branches, in clusters of ten or 
twelve together, forming a small compact 
trichotomous head ; the monopetalous corolla 
consists of a slender, nearly cylindrical, tube, 
about four inches long, terminating in a flat 
limb, about two inches in diameter ; the flowers 
are pure white. Native of Venezuela, on the 
mountains of Tovar, 5,000 to 6,000 feet (Ger- 
man) above the sea-level, in open and rather 
dry situations. Introduced to Berlin in 1845. 
Flowers from June till September. Culture. — 
Requires a stove ; peat and loam ; propagated 
by cuttings of the half-ripened wood, planted 
in sand under bell-glasses. 
Akistolochia picta, Karsten (painted 
flowered Aristolochia). — Aristolochiacea3. — A 
slender and highly curious climbing plant, 
remarkable, as is the whole of its family, for 
the odd shape of its blossoms. The young 
branches are smooth and shining. The leaves 
are cordato-sagittate, or between arrow- 
shaped and heart-shaped, bright green on 
the upper side, and fainter and bluish on the 
under surface. The flowers grow single from 
the axils of the leaves. The corolla, which is 
monopetalous, assumes at the base the form 
of a large swollen tube, the upper part of 
which is abruptly turned like a hook ; it then 
takes an inflated bladder-like form, then sud- 
denly becomes contracted, and at last ex- 
panded into a broad limb of an oblong heart- 
shaped outline, terminating at the apex in a 
short hair-like appendage ; the interior and 
mouth of the tube is an ochreous yellow, 
which colour is also continued in a dense 
series of net-like veins over the dark violet 
limb. Native of Venezuela, in the province 
of Caracas ; somewhat extensively distributed. 
Introduced to Belgium in 1845. Flowers in 
the summer months. Culture. — Requires the 
temperature of the stove ; dryish rest in win- 
ter ; peat and loam ; propagated by cuttings. 
Thyrscanthus bracteolatus, Nees von 
Esenbeck (bracteolated Thyrscanthus). — 
Acanthacese § Echmatacantheae-Gendarusseas. 
— A showy suffruticose plant, growing from 
two to three feet high, with opposite, nearly 
sessile, lance-shaped entire leaves, and a ter- 
minal obtuse thyrse-like panicle of bright 
scarlet blossoms ; these blossoms are an inch 
and a half long, with a slender tube, bent in 
tne middle, and above divided into an unequal 
two-lipped limb of five long narrow spread- 
ing segments. It is the Justicia bracteolata 
of Jacquin, and was formerly called Odonto- 
nem'a lucidum by Nees. Native of New 
Granada, and the "West Indian Islands. In- 
troduced originally in 1824 : re-introduced 
about 1847. Flowers in the autumn and 
winter. Culture. — Requires a stove ; loam 
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