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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
country. Flowers in the summer months. 
CulUire. — Requires a greenhouse or dry frame 
secure from frost, in winter ; sandy loam and 
peat ; propagated by seeds, by division of the 
f)lant, and also by means of portions of the 
thick roots, excited by gentle bottom heat. 
DiPLADENiA NOBiLis, vciT. rosea (rose 
coloured variety of Dipladenia nobilis). — 
Apocynacese § WrightejB.- — A handsome stove 
climber, differing from D. nobilis, in having 
more tubular shaped blossoms, with the limb 
more fully expanded, and in the colour of the 
interior of the throat being of a deep I'ose colour. 
The leaves are opposite, and oblong lanceolate, 
and the flowers borne in a racemose arrange- 
ment at the ends of the branches ; they are 
of a rich deep rosy pink colour, and about 
two inches in diameter. Native of the i^iland of 
St. Catherine's. Introduced in 1847, by Mr. 
A. Verschaffelt, of Ghent. Flowers in summer. 
Culture. — Requires a stove ; sandy loam and 
peat ; propagated by cuttings planted in sand 
under bell glasses. 
Rhododendron ledifolium (Azalea in- 
dica), var. lacteolum striatum (white-striped- 
flowered Indian Azalea). — Ericaceae § Rho- 
dodendreaa. — A showy variety of vigorous 
habit, with dark brownish coloured branches, 
bearing oblong roundish pointed leaves of a 
deep green colour, covered with small red hairs, 
particularly at the margins and on the under 
side. The flowers grow at the ends of the 
branches, several together ; they are about two 
inches and a half in diameter, with rounded 
petal-like lobes, milky white, streaked with 
crimson ; the form is tolerably good, but the 
variety not better than some of those raised in 
English gardens. A Belgian garden hybrid, 
obtained between the common v/hite and a red 
flowered variety. Raised in 1846, by Mr. J. 
Van Geert, of Ghent. Flowers in spring. 
Culture. — Requires a cool greenhouse ; turfy 
peat and sand ; propagated by budding, graft- 
ing, or inarching on the stocks of vigorous 
growing varieties of Indian Azalea, or on those 
of Rhododendron ponticum. 
Cattleya amethxstina, Morren (ame- 
thyst-lipped Cattleya). — Orchidace£e§ Epiden- 
dreas-Lasliad^. — A charming epiphyte, having 
considerable resemblance to the C. intermedia 
of English botanists. It has a short, thick, 
round stem, with a furrow on one side, support- 
ing two lance-shaped, smooth, thick, fleshy 
leaves, which are dark green on the upper 
surface. The flowers, growing from three 
to five in a short terminal raceme, which 
issues from a pale coloured spathe, are large, 
and generally of a light pink or pale flesh 
colour, strikingly contrasting with the sombre 
hue of the leaves ; the sepals and petals are 
lanceolate, somewhat pointed at Ihe tips, 
spreading, p^lucid, with a full streak of pale 
3'ellow down the middle, and faintly tinged 
with light green at the base and points ; 
the lip is three-lobed, the side lobes which 
envelope the column are entire, thick, fleshy, 
and of a light pink, the centre lobe — the 
striking feature of the flower — being of a 
rich violet colour, and, in general form, some- 
what heartshaped, undulated, and regularly 
dentated at the margins, Avith a narrow band 
down the centre, fading off to white at the 
tip. Native of S. America ; St. Catherines. 
Introduced in 1848 to Belgian gardens, 
by Mr. A. Verschaffelt, of Ghent. Flowers in 
May. Culture. — Requires a moist stove; turfy 
peat soil; propagated by division of the plant. 
Cattleya elegans, Morren (elegant Catt- 
leya). — OrchidaceaB § Epidendrea^-Lasliadfe. — 
A handsome and magnificent epiphytal species 
in the way of C. superha, from which it is 
chiefly distinguished by the absence of rugose 
veins and callosities in the labellum. It grows 
with a straight, short, club shaped stem, which 
bears two ovate -lanceolate, somewhat pointed 
leaves. The flowers, which are produced on a 
short few-flowered raceme, are large and of a 
bright rosy pink colour, which merges into a 
soft pale yellow towards the base of the petals, 
there terminating in light green ; the sepals 
are narrow, oblong-lanceolate and pointed ; 
the petals are also oblong, nearly three times 
broader than the sepals, undulated, and some- 
what acute ; the lip, or labellum, is three lobed, 
furroAved and undulated, the two side lobes 
being white, with a faint rosy tinge on the 
outside, convolute, oval, terminating in obtuse 
angles and overlapping each other so as to 
envelope the column in a tubular manner ; 
the intermediate lobe is of a dark purple 
colour (which is partially continued on the 
interior of the side lobes), large, considerably 
lengthened, undulated, and nearly square. 
Native of the island of St. Catherine's, Inti-o- 
duced to the Belgian Gardens by Mr. A, 
Verschaffelt, of Ghent. Flowers ? 
Culture. — Requires a moist stove, and but a 
sparing supply of water during the time of 
forming its flowers ; turfy peat soil ; propaga- 
ted by division of the plant. 
Pentstemon ovatijm, var. atro-coeruleum 
(dark-blue variety of Pentstemon ovatum). — 
Scrophulariacete § Antirrhinidea3-Chelonege. — 
A very shoAvy perennial plant of graceful up- 
I'ight habit, clothed Avith short viscous pube- 
scence, and groAving from three to four feet 
high. The leaves are smooth, ovate-cordate, 
amplexicaul, and finely dentated at the mar- 
gins, the lower ones having longish jDctioles. 
The floAvers form a loose many-flowered leafy 
panicle at the top of the stem ; they grow on 
axillary peduncles nearly in the manner of a 
corymb, from six to eight together, and are 
tubular, the tube being; about half an- inch in 
