NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
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very unlike a green leech, studded witli 
grains of carbonate of lime, has a curious 
appearance. The plant does not seem to 
possess the power of opening its flowers, such 
as they are. Native of Xapatam, in Mexico. 
Introduced in 1837- Flowers in March. 
Cidture. — Requires a stove ; turfy peat soil ; 
propagated by division. 
Zamia Fischeri, Miquel (Fischer's Za- 
mia). — Cycadeacea3. — One of the palm-like 
order of plants. Wlien young, the stem con- 
sists of a few scales, with a narrow terminal 
downy bud ; subsequently the stem becomes 
lengthened into a trunk, from two and a half 
to three inches long, downy when young, 
and becoming smooth with age ; it is roundish, 
somewhat flat on one side. The fronds, 
generally six in number, consist of a semi- 
terete rachis, which is smooth, or nearly so, 
and from three to five inches long, produced 
above the leaflets into a downy mucro ; the 
lower leaflets are alternate, the upper ones 
opposite ; they are lanceolate, much attenu- 
ated, and unequal-sided, the lower margin 
being convex, and having from ten to twelve 
serratures, the upper margin being nearly 
straight, with usually four to seven serratures ; 
the leaflets converge, so that the infei'ior 
margin is directed forwards, and the superior 
margin backwards. The cones of fructifica- 
tion are unknown. It is supposed to be a 
native of South America. Introduced to 
continental gardens before 1845. Flowers 
? It is the Zamia temdfolia (Fischer). 
Culture. — Requires a stove ; free or sandy 
loamy soil ; propagated by suckers, or scales. 
Bejaria coarctata, Humboldt and Bon- 
pland (close-flowered Bejaria). — Ericaceae § 
Rhododendrese. — A beautiful low shrub, 
branching and flowering copiously when 
quite small. The young branches, pedicels, 
calyx, petioles, and ribs of the leaves, are 
furnished with a fuscous woolliness. The 
leaves are spreading, elliptical-oblong, entire, 
evergreen, glaucous beneath, and of a com- 
pact and brittle texture. The flowers ap- 
pear in short compact many-flowered racemes, 
which grow at the ends of the branches ; they 
consist of seven spreading oblong-lanceolate 
petals, of a pale rose colour, deepest towards 
the base, and having two or three darker 
streaks on each. Young plants a foot high 
are covered with blossom, under good manage- 
ment. Native of Peru, in very cold situations, 
near Cascamarcan, at an elevation of from 
9,000 to 10,000 feet. Introduced in 1848, 
by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. of Exeter. 
Flowers in January. Culture. — Requires a 
" cool greenhouse and thjs treatment of Indian 
Azaleas," according to the experience of 
Mr, Pince, who uses a compost of sandy peat 
soil, and some half decayed leaf-mould ; pro- 
pagated by cuttings, or by seeds when pro- 
duced. 
Cleome bicolor, var. concolor (two- 
coloured Cleome : self-coloured var.). — Cap- 
paridaceae § Cleomeae. — A handsome annual 
or biennial plant, of upright graceful habit, 
bearing numerous white flowers, whose dis- 
position makes them resemble some kind of 
butterfly. The stems are somewhat prickly 
and hairy. The leaves consist of five lanceo- 
late attenuated leaflets ; the floral ones simple, 
sessile cordate-orbicular. The flowers are 
entirely white, the petals oval-oblong and 
clawed ; the filaments are of a reddish colour. 
In the C. bicolor the upper part of the limb 
is purplish. Native of Central America ; 
growing in stony places. Introduced to 
Belgium in 1 844. Flowers ? Culture. 
— Requires a stove ; sandy loam and leaf- 
mould ; propagated by seeds, or by cuttings 
of the non-flowering shoots. 
Stifftia chrysantha, MiJcan (golden- 
flowered Stifftia). — Asteraceae § Labiatiflorae- 
Mutisiaceas. — A most beautiful shrub, some- 
what large- growing, attaining, according to 
the accounts of those botanists who have seen 
it wild, the height of eight or ten feet. It is 
a stout plant, with rough bark, and having 
alternate lanceolate-acuminate entire shining 
leaves. The flower heads are solitary at the 
ends of the branches, each head containing 
about twenty-five closely set florets or blos- 
soms, which are tubular, nearly two inches 
long, of a pale orange colour below, be- 
coming darker- above, and divided into five 
narrow segments, which are revolute, and 
rolled up in a circinate manner-; they are, 
when unrolled, seen to be about half an inch 
long ; the pappus, of a beautiful orange colour, 
is nearly the length of the tube of the flowers, 
which it surrounds like a fringe of hairs. 
Native of Brazil. Introduced about 1840. 
Flowers in February. It is the Augusta 
grandiflora (Leandro) ; 3focinia mutisioide.^ 
(De Candolle) ; and the Plazia brasilien.vs 
(Sprengel). Culture. — Requires a warm 
stove ; free loamy soil ; propagated by cuttings ^ 
under a bell glass in bottom heat. 
Callistemon brachtandrum, Jjindley 
(short-flowered Callistemon). — Myrtaceae § 
Leptospermeae. — A small handsome stiff grow- 
ing bush, of branching habit, with round 
pubescent branches, and narrow linear pun- 
gent channelled leaves, having conspicuous 
dots on the under side. The flowers grow in 
loose spikes, about two inches long, towards 
the ends of the branches ; the petals are small 
and inconspicuous, the showy portion, as in 
other allied plants, being the stamens, which 
form little tufts of crimson threads ; in this 
species, these threads are shorter than in other 
kinds, being not more than twice as long as 
