NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
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short; the sepals are ptirple at the point, green 
at the base, and covered with glandular hairs; 
the petals small and concave, white, occasion- 
ally stained. Native probably of Guatemala. 
Introduced in 1848. It was raised in Sir P. 
Egerton's orchid house, on the stump of an 
epidendrum. Flowers in October. Culture. 
— Requires a cool stove or warm greenhouse; 
turfy peat and loam; propagated by cuttings. 
Rhododendron ledifolium (Azalea in- 
dica) var. setosum (bearded Indian Azalea). — 
Ericaceas § Rhododendrese. — A handsome and 
vigorous growing variety, with dark brown and 
very hairy branches, furnished with ovate 
lanceolate acuminate leaves, hairy, especially 
on the margin and on the under surface ; the 
leaves are persistent through the winter. The 
flowers are very large (represented as being 
four inches across), of a light rosy purple 
colour, deeper towards the margin and paler 
towards the centre ; the petal-like lobes or seg- 
ments of the corolla are large, broad, and un- 
dulated, the upper one being studded in the 
centre with red tubercles which appear like 
spots ; tlie stamens and pistil are deeply- 
coloured purple. A Belgian garden variety 
raised from the Phoenician variety of the In- 
dian Azalea, crossed with the common white 
variety. Raised in 1846, by Mr. L. Bailleul, 
nurseryman of G-hent. Flowers in the spring 
months. This variety is also called harhata 
in the Belgian gardens. Cidture. — Requires 
a cool greenhouse; turfy peat and sand; pro- 
pagated by budding, grafting, or inarching on 
stocks of the free growing varieties of Indian 
Azalea, or Rhododendron ponticum. 
Trop^olum oxALiANTHUM, Morren (oxa- 
lis-flowered Indian Cress). — Tropaeolacese § 
Tropseolese. — A pretty tuberous-rooted peren- 
nial species in the way of T. brachyceras and 
T. tenellu7Ti. It has slender cylindrical twin- 
ing stems, proceeding from the crown of the 
tuber, and bearing small peltate five-lobed 
leaves on slender twisted petioles about three 
inches long ; the lobes or segments of the 
leaves are lanceolate entire, and wedge-shaped 
at the base. The flowers are also borne on 
slender stalks from the axils of the leaves, and 
are small, of a clear yellow colour, the two up- 
per petals being streaked with bright orange- 
red; the calyx is about half as long as the 
petals, green, divided into five oval dilated 
lobes, and terminating behind in a conical ob- 
tuse spur; the petals are oval, wedge-shaped 
at the base, the lateral ones undulated on the 
margins. Native of Chili. Introduced to Bel- 
gium in 1847, by Mr. Bauman, of Ghent. 
Flowers in the early part of the summer. 
Culture. — Requires a greenhouse ; sandy loam 
and leaf mould ; propagated by cuttings of the 
young shoots planted in sand, and placed in a 
gentle heat. 
Epidendrum funiperum, Morren (thread- 
petalled Epidendrum). — Orchidacete § Epi- 
dendrese-Lseliada). — A handsome and very dis- 
tinct epiphytal species, having a round slender 
erect stem of from eighteen inches to two feet 
high, on which are situated the alternate ob- 
long-lanceolate, acuminate, striated leaves ; 
these envelope the stem by their base in the 
manner of a sheath, and are also much incurved 
at the apex. The flowers are borne in nume- 
rous short drooping racemes issuing from along 
the upper part of the stem ; they are small, of 
a rich orange colour, with a white centre ; the 
sepals are entire, ovate acuminate, spreading, 
and tinged with light green and purple at the 
back ; the petals are remarkable for their 
thread-like form ; they are as long as the se- 
pals, and adhere to the sides of the two lateral 
ones as far as the middle, but separate nearer 
to the base with the full expansion of the 
flower,,and ultimately become contorted, like a 
corkscrew ; the lip is longer than the sepals, 
three parted, joined to the column, and of a 
white colour at the base ; the side lobes are 
serrated, the intermediate one ligulate and 
notched in the middle. Native of the island of 
St. Catherine's. Introduced to Belgium about 
1847. Flowers ? Culture. — Requires 
a moist stove ; should be grown in pots 
among turfy peat soil, potsherds, and sphag- 
num ; propagated by division of the plant. 
Statice imbricata, Gerard (imbricated 
Statice). — Plumbaginacese § Statice^e. — A 
handsome perennial with the habit of S. 
sinuata. The flowering stem, springing from a 
tuft of leaves at the base of the plant, grows 
about two feet high, and is winged with a broad 
leafy dark green sinuated margin throughout ; 
it terminates in a corymbose head of flowering 
branches, each branch having also a corymbose 
ramification. The leaves, forming a rovulate 
tuft, are pinnatifid, the upper portion being 
entire, and forming a large and distinct lobe 
of a sub-triangular or acuminate form, and 
the lower portion consisting of a series of entire 
oblong-reniforrn oblique and slightly sinuated 
lobes, which gradually become smaller towards 
the naked leaf-stalk ; the margins of the old 
leaves are red and ciliated, the young ones 
being also red and of a velvety texture, con- 
tributing greatly to the beauty of the entire 
plant. The flowers growing from the apices 
of the numerous ramifications of the stem, con- 
sist of a rich blue persistent cup-shaped cre- 
nated calyx, surrounding the small cream- 
coloured fugitive petals, the chief beauty of the 
plant — which is veiy considerable — residing 
in the persistent blue calyx. Native of the 
island of TenerifFe, where it was originally 
found by P. B. Webb, Esq. near the town of 
Buena Vista. Introduced to the continental 
gardens in 1846, and thence to those of this 
