NEW TLOWERS AND TLANTS. 
with broad oblong, entire acuminate, opposite 
stalkless leaves, from two to three inches 
long, deep green on the upper surface, and 
having prominent veins, which incline to 
white underneath, the lower surface being 
also generally paler. The younger, or upper 
leaves, have a faint tinge of brown on both 
sides ; and the entire plant, with the excep- 
tion of the corolla, is covered with short 
pubescence or hairs. The flowers are pro- 
duced at the extremity of the shoots in the 
form of a compact panicle or cyme, the 
branching of which commences immediately 
at the two uppermost leaves where there is a 
small cucullate bract enveloping or surround- 
ing the stem. The peduncles are from half 
an inch to an inch long, and the pedicels 
about a quarter of an inch long, and together 
with the calyx are green and slightly pubes- 
cent. The corolla consists of a small pink 
or rose-coloured tube, having five oblong 
emarginate lobes of a lighter hue. The fila- 
ments are inserted near the middle, the 
anthers surrounding the shortly exserted 
style at the mouth of the tube. 
It may be grown in the open ground, but 
should be allotted a shady situation. In 
winter it will be necessary to remove it to 
the greenhouse. It may also be grown in 
the stove, where, of course, it flowers earlier 
than in the greenhouse or the open ground. 
Soil : a light compost of turf and leaf mould, 
with a small proportion of sand. Requires 
to be watered frequently. Propagated by 
cuttings under a hand-glass in a hot-bed. The 
blossoms are fragrant, and are produced during 
the summer season. 
Being a native of Guatemala, this plant 
properly belongs to the cool stove-house, in 
which it may no doubt be grown to the 
greatest degree of perfection. We are, how- 
ever, assured that in Belgium it is grown in 
the open ground during summer, a shady and 
probably very sheltered situation being al- 
lotted to it ; and that in the winter season 
it is taken up, and removed to the greenhouse. 
Thus treated, it is said to produce its blossoms 
at a later period of the summer than when 
grown permanently in the greenhouse, or in 
the stove. This fact clearly indicates that it 
by no means requires a very high temper- 
ature ; and there is no doubt, that what is 
usually called an intermediate house, the 
temperature of which comes between that of 
a stove and greenhouse, will be found most 
suitable for its cultivation. A light compost 
of loam and leaf-mould, with sand added, is 
recommended for it. Propagation is effected 
by means of cuttings planted in sand, under a 
hand-glass, and placed in a moderate hot- bed. 
NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Lisianthus princeps, Lindley (princely 
Lisianthus). — Gentianaceas § Gentianeae. — 
A noble shrubby plant, with compressed 
branches, furnished with ovate-lanceolate very 
acute deep green glabrous stalked leaves. The 
flowers grow from the axils of the leaves, 
singly, and hang on long slender-terete stalks ; 
they are large, apparently orange or crimson, 
the calyx campanulate half an inch deep, the 
corolla tubular, cylindrical towards the base, 
ventricose upwards, five inches long, and rather 
more than an inch wide in the thickest part. 
" Undoubtedly one of the finest things in cul- 
tivation." Native of New Grenada. Intro- 
duced to Paris (M. Linden, Luxembourg 
Nursery) in 1849. Flowers ? Culture — 
Requires a cool stove ; sandy loam and peat : 
propagated by seeds or cuttings. 
Wailesia picta, Linclley (painted Waile- 
sia). — Orchidacea3 § Vandeas-Sarcanthidse. — 
A beautiful epiphytal plant, with the habit of 
Vanda or Angrgecum, having long distichous 
rough channelled three-ribbed leaves, ending 
in an acute oblique point, and from the side 
of the stem erect flower-spikes, nearly a foot 
in length, and bearing from nine to twelve 
flowers, each about an inch and a half in 
diameter ; the sepals and petals are spread- 
ing, narrowly oblong ; the lip oblong, saddle- 
shaped, blunt ; externally the flowers are 
