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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Nepenthes sanguinea, Lindleij (blood- 
stained Pitcher-plant). — Nepenthaceas, — This 
is one of the many beautiful forms of the 
very curious and interesting race of Pitcher- 
plants. They are all more or less scandent 
in their habit of growth, but the most remark- 
able feature about them is the odd-sliaped 
pitchers, or ascidia, as they are called, which 
dangle about from the end of the leaves, by a 
coi'd which appears like an extension of the 
mid-rib of the leaf. In this species the 
ascidia are oblong, with two fimbriated wings 
down the front, and a broad repand plaited 
collar around the mouth of the pitcher ; the 
colour is a deep crimson, and the petiole is 
smooth. Native of Mount Ophir in Malacca. 
Introduced in 1848. Flowers . Culture. 
Requires a hot mcist stove ; to be potted in 
loose material, as chopped sphagnum, fibrous 
peat, charcoal, and potsherds ; propagated by 
layers, or by cuttings, planted in a similar 
medium, and kept very close. 
Nepenthes albo-maeginata, Lohh (white- 
edged Pitcher-plant), — Nepenthaceas. — A 
small growing, but very graceful pitcher- 
plant, the ascidia of which are narrowly oval, 
with two narrow toothed wings down the 
front, and a narrow plaited collar round the 
rim of the oi'ifice of the pitcher, close beneath 
which is a broad band of silvery wool ; the 
colour is green, and the petiole is woolly, with 
short soft hairs. It is one of the prettiest of 
its race as yet known, and one of the most 
graceful. Native of Mount Ophir in Ma- 
lacca, Introduced in 1848. Flow^ers . 
Culture. — Requires a hot moist stove ; to be 
potted in loose material, such as chopped moss, 
fibrous peat soil, charcoal and potsherds ; pro- 
pagated by layers or by cuttings planted in a 
similar medium, and kept very close. 
Nepenthes Hookeriana, Low {^irW. 
Hooker's Pitcher-plant). — This is one of the 
larger species of pitcher-plant. In its native 
country it climbs to the tops of the trees. 
The ascidia are of two kinds, the broader one 
generally crimson, the longer one (nine 
inches in length) trumpet-shaped, and green 
spotted with crimson ; the broad ascidia are 
produced near tlie base of the plant. These 
ascidia have two broad ciliated wings, and a 
plaited collar. Native of Borneo and Mount 
Ophir. Introduced in 1847. Flowers . 
Culture. — Requires a hot moist stove ; to be 
potted in loose fibrous peat, chopped moss, 
and potsherds ; the branches carefully sup- 
ported — they do not like to be much handled; 
propagated by cuttings, kept closely covered 
in a moist atmosphere. 
GoNOLOBCS Martianus, Hoolier (Dr, Von 
Martius' Gonolobus), — Asclepiadacete § Go- 
nolobea3. — A fine showy soft-wooded climbing 
plant, spreading over a large space, with nu- 
merous hairy branches. The leaves are 
oblong-ovate, with a cordate base, hairy on 
both sides ; from their axils grow the solitary 
peduncles, bearing the many-flowered umbels 
of blossoms, the calyx of which is red, of five 
lance-shaped segments, the corolla white, with 
a green radiating ring at the base, the central 
staminal crown being also greenish. Native 
of the island of St. Sebastian, Brazih Intro- 
duced in 1846. Flowers in the summer 
months. It is the Fisclieria 3Iartiana (De- 
caisne). Culture. — Requires a stove : loam 
and peat soil ; propagated readily by cuttings 
in a hot-bed frame, or close moist heat. 
CuPANiA CuNNiNGHAMi, Hooker (Mr. Cun- 
ningham's Cupania). — Sapindacece § Sa- 
pindeae. — A large-growing shrub, or rather a 
tree, adapted only for planting in very large 
conservatories ; there having a fine appear- 
ance from its large pinnated leaves, from one 
to two feet long, consisting of four or five pairs 
of glossy elliptic leaflets, rather than from any 
beauty in its blossoms, which grow in large 
terminal panicles, but are so small and scat- 
tered as to be inconspicuous ; the colour of 
the small petals is white, but these are nearly 
concealed by the green calyx. It may be 
kept small for many years by cramping its 
roots, but does not then acquire the noble 
character it assumes when growing more 
freely. Native of New Holland, on the east 
coast. Introduced in 1820. Flowers in 
summer. It has hitherto been known as 
Stadmannia australis (Allan Cunningham). 
Culture. — Requires a greenhouse — rather 
warm, to induce it to flower ; loam and peat ; 
propagated by seeds when obtainable, very 
sparingly, if at all, by cuttings, as it does not 
produce lateral branches. 
NiPHyEA RUBiDA, Lemaire (reddish- veined 
Niphsea). — Gesneraceas § Gesnere^. — A dwarf 
tuberous-rooted herbaceous plant, growing 
three or four inches high, wnth a few spread- 
ing ovate veiny velvety leaves, with a cordate 
base, mostly situated towards the top of 
its short stem ; from the axils of these 
leaves grow up an abundant succession of 
small white flowers, individually neat but 
simple, though in the mass somewhat showy ; 
they are rotate, that is, having a spreading 
limb connected to a very short tube ; they 
are five-lobed, the two upper smaller than the 
others, nearly an inch across, pure white, 
with a yellow stain at the base, and yellow 
anthers. Native probably of Guatemala. 
Introduced in 1847. Flowers in the autumn. 
