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naturally adapted to a very moist atmosphere, 
it may probably suffer from the drier climate 
of our gardens, unless moisture is maintained 
about by some transparent covering. 
Nematanthus Chloronema, Martins. 
(Short flower-stalked Nematanthus.) — A soft- 
wooded sub-shrubby stove plant, with droop- 
ing, tubular, scarlet flowers, and large, fleshy, 
oval, pointed leaves. The differences between 
it and N. Longipes (also a handsome plant), 
consist chiefly of minor botanical characters. 
It is from the Organ Mountains of Brazil, 
and flowers during the latter part of the sum- 
mer. 
Pentas Carnea, Bentham. (Flesh-cer.\ 
loured Pentas.) — A soft-wooded, shrubby 
plant, which in a young state is exceedingly 
well-proportioned, but gets straggling as it 
becomes older. The leaves are large, oval, 
and hairy, on stalks of medium length ; and 
the flowers are produced at the ends of the 
numerous branches in clusters of considerable 
size; they are of a delicate flesh colour, rather 
tinged with lilac, and are composed of a long 
narrow tube, and a star-shaped expanded por- 
tion, consisting of five segments. Its native 
country is not certainly known, but it is 
believed to be from Africa, within the tropics; 
and was introduced to this country from Bel- 
gium. It is exceedingly easy of cultivation, 
in an ordinary plant stove, or warm green- 
house in summer. 
PhaseolusLobatus, Hooker. (Lobe-leaved 
Kidney-bean.) — This species has leaves divided 
into three deep lobes, resembling those of a Pas- 
sion-flower. The yellow pea-shaped flowers 
are borne in few-flowered racemes from the 
axils of the leaves; they have little or no beauty, 
but the keel of the flower is spirally twisted, 
like the shell of a snail. It is a native of 
Buenos Ayres, and Rio Negro; and was raised 
in the Botanic Garden at Glasnevin, Dublin, 
where it flowered in September. 
Phlomis Cashmeriana, Royle. (Cashmere 
Phlomis.) —A hardy perennial plant with oval- 
lanceolate leaves, and a flower-stem bearing 
whorls of pale lilac, nettle-like flowers. It 
grows about two feet high, and flowers in 
July and August : as the name implies, it is 
a native of the valley of Cashmere. 
Pterodiscus Speciosus, Hooher. (Showy 
Pterodiscus.) — A stove herbaceous plant, from 
Macalisberg, in the interior of Southern Africa; 
introduced to the garden of the Earl of Derby, 
at Knowsley, and flowered in May of the 
present year. It has a large, round, tuberous 
root, from which the stem arises, dividing it- 
self into several erect, leafy, succulent branches, 
which attain from a foot to a foot and a half 
in height : the leaves are large, oblong, with 
toothed edges, situated opposite on the stem, 
on short footstalks ; and from their axils the 
solitary flowers are produced : the flowers are 
funnel-shaped, nearly two inches long, with a 
spreading five-lobed mouth, ami of a beautiful 
rosy purple colour. It is an exceedingly 
ornamental plant. 
Rhododendron Aprilis, Herbert, f April- 
flowering Rhododendron.) — A handsome hy- 
brid, raised by the Dean of Manchester, and 
named by him from its season of flowering. 
It appears to possess a neat habit, and bears 
large heads of flowers, whitish towards the 
centre, and bright pink towards the edges, the 
upper petal being spotted. It was originated 
between the Davurian and the common Pontic 
Rhododendrons, and proves quite hardy. 
Salvia Prunellioides, Humboldt. (Pru- 
nella-like Sage.) — The chief merit of this 
plant consists in its being hardy, growing 
compact, and producing blue flowers. The 
leaves are ovate-oblong, with an obtuse point, 
and attenuated base ; the flowers are bright- 
blue, produced on dwarf stems, in great pro- 
fusion, and that medium degree of luxuriance, 
which constitutes compactness, without crowd- 
ing or inconvenience. It has been found in 
various parts of South America and in Mexico. 
It is not strictly new. 
Sedum Telephium, Var Alpinum, Maund. 
(Alpine Orpine.) — A decumbent variety of 
the common Orpine, found by Mr. Cameron, 
on Titterstone Clee-hill, Shropshire, and cul- 
tivated by him in the Birmingham Botanic 
Garden. It is only distinguishable from S. 
Telephium in being earlier, and more slender 
and diffuse in its mode of growth. 
Siphocamptlus Lantanifolius, Be Can- 
dolle. (Lantana-leaved Siphocampylus.) — An 
erect stove shrub, with rather large, oval, 
stalked, leaves, and terminal, many-flowered 
racemes of long, tube-shaped, deep crimson 
flowers, divided at the end into five narrow 
segments, wmich reflex, and show the inside 
of a pale-pink colour. It is of rather weak 
growth, but is altogether a gooddooking plant, 
flowering in the spring. It is from Caraccas. 
Spir^a Rekvesiana, Lindley. (Mr. Reeve's 
Spiraea.) — This plant was introduced from 
China, and is a handsome, hardy, sub-ever- 
green shrub, growing three or four feet in 
height. The leaves are lance-shaped, with a 
small projecting lobe on each side; the round 
flower heads are produced at the end of the 
shoots, and they consist of numerous small 
hawthorn like blossoms. It flowers about the 
month of May. 
Statice PsEUDO-ARMERiA,il/wrra_y. (False 
Thrift.) — A half-hardy, herbaceous perennial, 
from the south of Europe, with tufted obovate 
leaves, and dense globular flower heads, on 
stems from a foot to eighteen inches high. 
The flowers are of a pretty pale rose colour, 
and altogether, though not new, it is a valuable 
