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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Native of the north of India ; on the Himalayas 
to the height of from 7000 to 13,000 feet. 
Introduced in 1845. Flowers during the 
autumn. Culture. — Hardy; well -drained 
loamy soil ; adapted for rock work ; propa- 
gated readily by cuttings. 
DiANELLA ELEGANS, Kunth and Bouche 
(elegant Dianella). — Liliacete § Asparageas. — • 
A tufted caulescent perennial plant, bearing 
smooth broadly-linear leaves, a foot long, and 
six lines broad ; scabrous on the margins and 
on the keel, and somewhat prickly towards 
the apex. The flowers grow in panicles, 
divided into two free or open branches, and are 
of a fine blue colour ; the leaflets of the peri- 
gone (segments of the flowers) are all furnished 
with five nerves or veins. Native of Van 
Diemen's Land. Introduced to the Royal 
Botanic Garden of Berlin, in 1848. Flowers 
? Culture. — Requires a greenhouse ; 
turfy peat and loam ; propagated by seeds, or 
by division of the plant. 
Ctclobothra monophylla, Lindley (one- 
leaved Cyclobothra). — Liliacese § Tulipe^e. — 
A small bulbous plant, producing a slender 
stem three or four inches high, bearing a 
single linear-lanceolate leaf, glaucous on the 
under side, and about three times its own 
length. The flower-scape bears from two to 
three flowers in a corymb ; they have curved 
pedicels, and are smaller than is usual in the 
genus, about an inch across, and of a uniform 
bright yellow colour ; the sepals are ovate and 
sharp pointed ; the petals are of the same 
figure, but less pointed, and coarsely hairy. 
Native of California, sparingly on the Sacra- 
mento Mountains. Introduced in 1848 to the 
garden of the Horticultural Society, by Mr. 
Hartweg. Flowers in June. Culture. — 
Hardy ; sandy peat and leaf mould ; propa- 
gated by offsets. It should be placed undis- 
turbed in an American border. 
■* SVTAMMERDAMIA ANTENNAEIA, De Candolh 
(antennge - seeded Swammei'damia). — Aster- 
aceJB § Tubuliflore^-Helichrysese. — A com- 
pact evergreen bush, apparently not attaining 
a very large size, having viscid angular shoots, 
and obovate apiculate, blunt, veinless leaves, 
deep green on the upper surface, but in the 
young state covered with a slight mealiness 
on the under side. The flower heads, in form 
resembling those of the groundsel, are small, 
and collected into little corymbose panicles 
terminating the short lateral shoots ; they are 
Avhite, and add but little to the beauty of the 
plant, which is conflned to the foliage. Native 
of the sides of Mount Wellington, in Van Die- 
men's Land. Introduced in 1846. Flowers 
in June. Culture. — Hardy ; common garden 
soil ; propagated readily by cuttings. 
Tradescantia Warszewicziana, Kunth 
and Houclie, (De Warszewicz's Spider-wort). 
— Commelynaceae. — A handsome perennial 
plant, glabrous in every pai't, and having a 
straight short simple leafy stem. The leaves 
are fleshy, about ten inches long by two and 
a half broad, amplexicaul at the base, lanceo- 
late, and sharply acuminate. The inflorescence 
is from one to two feet long, subterminal, 
simply branched, with many-flowered umbels ; 
the spathe is armed with a long subulate point. 
The flowers are as large as those of Alisma 
Plantago, the sepals being bright lilac, and 
the petals rosy violet ; the anthers yellow, 
broad, reniform, sinuated and emarginate at 
the summit ; the stigma obtuse and entire. 
Native of Guatemala, whence it was sent by 
M. De Warszewicz to the Royal Berlin Botanic 
Garden. Introduced to Berlin in 1848. 
Flowers ? Culture. — Requires a cool 
stove ; turfy peat and loam ; propagated by 
cuttings, or division of the plant. 
MiLTONiA Karwinskii, Lindley (Karwin- 
ski's Miltonia). — Orchidace^ § Vandeae-Bras- 
sid£e. — One of the most beautiful epiphytal 
plants in cultivation. The flowers are borne 
on a stout nearly upright stem, three feet long, 
covered for three-fourths of its length, at 
intervals of an inch and a half, with the 
beautiful blossoms, which are fully two inches 
and a half in diameter, and variegated with 
white, yellow, brown, and purple ; the sepals 
and petals are bright yellow, barred and 
spotted with brown ; the lip is white at the 
point, deep violet at the base, and white in the 
middle space ; the column is nearly white 
and adorned by two serrated hatchet-shaped 
wings. Native of Oaxaca. Introduced in 
1839. Flowers in August. It bears the 
names of Cyrtochilum Karwinskii (Lindley), 
and Oncidiurn Karwinskii (Lindley). Cul- 
ture. — Requires a rather cool stove ; fibry 
peat soil ; propagated by division of the 
plant. 
LiMNANTHES KOS'EAjS e7itha7n (rose-coloured 
Limnanthes), — TropseolacefB § Limnanthege. 
— A rather pretty annual plant, of prostrate 
habit, and succulent texture. The leaves are 
variable in form, sometimes pinnate, at other 
times somewhatbipinnate, and sometimes with- 
out side-lobes ; all the parts are linear. The 
flowers grow from the axils of the leaves, 
singly, on long stalks ; they are of a pale dirty 
rose-colour, and consist of five petals, which 
are bordered at the base with long hairs, and 
are of an obcordate figure, giving the flower 
a resemblance in shape to that of a mallow. 
Native of swampy places in the Sacramento 
Valley, California. Introduced into the garden 
of the Horticultural Society, by Mr. Hartweg, 
in 1848. Flowers in the summer months, 
when sown in the spring. Mr. Hartweg 
called it L. jndchella. Culture. — Hardy ; 
good garden soil ; propagated by seeds. 
