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NEW PLANTS. 
NEW AKD RARE PLANTS. 
Macleahia cordata, Lemaire. Heart-shaped-leaved 
Macleania. — Nat. Ord., Vacciniacere. — Syn., Gaultheria 
cordata, of Belgian gardens. — A fine greenhouse ever- 
green shrub, growing three to four feet high, ivith up- 
right smooth branches. The leaves are opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate, entire, about three inches long. The flowers 
grow in a seeund maimer towards the extremities of 
the branches, thi-ee or four fi-om the asil of each leaf; 
the corolla consists of an angular tube an inch long, 
bright red, with a yellow limb of five small, ovate, 
spreading segments, greenish before expansion. — From 
Chili : elevated regions in a calcareous stony soil ; in- 
troduced to Belgium in 1843. Flowers in summer. 
Helianthemttm scopakium, NuttaU. Broom Sun 
Eose. — Nat. Ord., Cistaceje. — A small prostrate hardy 
shrub, suitable only for rock- work, and thriving iu the 
full glai-e of the sun. The branches are smooth and 
wiry, and the leaves linear alternate, without stipules. 
The flowers are small, bright yellow, in twos and 
threes at the end of the branches ; the petals, five in 
number, are oblong, blimt, wavy, twice as long as the 
calyx. Eeadily increased by seeds, and growing in 
sandy loam and peat. — From California : mountains of 
Santa Cruz ; iutroduced in 1848. Flowers towards the 
end of summer. Horticultural Society. 
DossiNiA MAKMORATA, 3JJ»Ten. Marbled Dossinia. 
— Nat. Ord., Orchidaceas, § Neotteas-Physuridefe. — 
Syn., Chcii-ostylis marmorata, Lhidley. — A stove peren- 
lual herb, with creeping stems, terminating in tufts of 
deep reddish olive-green leaves, having a velvety sur- 
face, and traversed by golden veins, which, however, to 
some extent, disappear when the leaves become old. 
The flowers are smaE white, with a reddish calyx on a 
long, purple, downy raceme. "Worth cultivating in the 
orchid-house, on account of the dai-k, beantifuUy-va- 
riegated leaves. From Java and Borneo ; introduced in 
1847. Flowers in summer. Mr. Low, of Clapton.* 
BLANDFORDiji FLAJDiEA, Zimlleij. Flame-flowcred 
Blandfordia. — Nat. Ord., LUiaceae, \ Hemerocalleae. — 
A showy, greenhouse, herbaceous perennial, growing 
three or four feet high. The leaves are pale green, 
linear-lanceolate, irom six to nine inches long. The 
flowers grow in a pendulous manner, on a slender scape, 
which grows from ten inches to four feet high ; the peri- 
anth — of six segments, the outer ovate-obtuse, the inner 
broader — is orange-red, tipped with yellow, the interior 
a bright orange-yellow. — From Austi-alia, on the banks 
of the Hunter river; iutroduced in 1848. Flowers in 
October. Messrs. Low and Son, of Clapton.f 
Bekbekis aueahtoacexsis, Lemaire. Airrahuacan 
Berberry. — Nat. Ord., Berberaceos, \ Berberide*. — A 
half-hardy, sub-evergreen shrub, with straight erect 
branches, bearing leaves of two kinds — the lower ones 
cordate, with a long petiole ; the upper ones obovate, 
elliptical, tapering to the base, coriaceous, wavy, with 
a few marginal spiny teeth near the end, and very 
glaucous on the under surface. The flowers are a very 
deep yellow, di'ooping, and grow in compact racemes. 
From New Grenada : near the vfllage of Aurahuaco- 
Taquina, in the Sierra Nevada, 9000 feet above the sea, 
near the snow-line ; inti'oduced to Belgium in 1847. 
Flowers in summer. 
• Ann. de Soc. Soij. Bot. de Gand, t. 193. 
t Faxt. Mag. Hot., n. s., p. 353. 
