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NEW AjST) EAEE plants. 
ITetkosidekos tomentosa, Ekliard. Do^my-leaved 
Metrosideros, {Bot. Mag., t. 4488).— Xat. Ord., Myr- 
tacex, § Leptospemiea;. — A showy, large-growing, ever- 
green greenhouse shrul), with copious, compact, but 
sprcadingramifications. The leaves are opposite, leathery, 
elliptical obtuse, ovato-lanceolate, or lanceolate-acute, 
dark green and smooth above, whitish and downy 
beneath. The flowers the conspicuous pail of which 
consist of the bright red filaments of the stamens — grow 
in corymbs at the end of the branches. — From Kew 
Zealand : the rocky sea-coast and shores of the Bay of 
Islands ; introduced by Mr. AUan Cunningham, before 
1839. Flowers in summer. Royal Garden, Kew. 
Phakbitis LrMBAT.Y. Lindleij. "^Vhite-edgcd Phar- 
bitis, (Jonni. Sort. Soc, v. 33). — STat. Ord., Convol- 
vulaccae, ^^ Convolvulea?. — X very handsome stove- 
climber, with the appearance of the Convolvulus major. 
The stems are clothed with rctrorse hairs. The leaves 
are cordate entire three-lobed, and hairy. The flowers 
are solitary fi-om the asils of the leaves on veiy short 
stalks ; the sepals very long, linear-acute, excessively 
hairy ; the corolla intense violet, edged with pure white. 
The flowers are veiy beautiful. From Java ; introduced 
in 1849. Flowers in summer and autumn. Messrs. 
Eollisson, of Tooting. 
CixBOA GLOBOSA, Lindletj. Globose Calboa. {Journ, 
Sort. Soc, v., 83). — Xat. Ord., Convolvulacete, §Con- 
volvulese. Syn., Quamoclitglobosa,5«;^/^<7»^ ; Morenoa 
globosa, Zline and Lcxarza. — A strong-growing, half- 
woody, smooth-stemmed, climber, requiring much room 
to spread, and to be kept in a cool, dry stove in winter, 
and in a cool greenhouse in summer. The leaves' are 
thin, variable in form, cordate-acuminate, sagittate or 
hastate, with the lobes narrow, and the lower ones 
deeply angular. The flowers gi-ow on axillary umbels 
on a long pedimcle ; the sepals have a subulate process 
at the back ; the corolla is deep rich red ; the tube 
cui-ved cyUndiical ; the limb campanulatc. — From 
Hexieo :_ eastern decKvity of Orizaba ; introduced in 
1846. Flowers from August to October. Horticultiu-al 
Society. 
Pextstemox coRDiFOLTrs, Bciitham. Heart-leaved 
Pentstemon. (Journ. Sort. Soc, v. 88.) — ^Nat. Ord., 
Scropbulariaccse, § Antin'hinideoe. — A pretty half-shrub- 
by hardy plant of spreading habit, having downy stems. 
The leaves are small, green, shining, cordate serrate. 
The flowers grow in large leafy one-sided panicles at the 
end of the shoots ; the calyx is covered with glandular 
hairs ; the corolla nearly an inch and a half long, the 
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tube almost cyUndiical, the upper lip straight, the 
lower lip three parted ; colour, a "richdidlrcd." Suitable 
for rock banks or against a wall. — From CaHfomia : 
mountains of Santa Cruz ; introduced in 1848. Flowers 
from June to October. Horticultural Society. 
SpATHOGLorns ArKEA, Lindlcy. Golden Spathoglot- 
tis, (Journ. Sort. Soc, r. 34).. — Xat. Ord., Orchidacca;, 
§ Ei)idendrea;-Blctida3. — A handsome, terrestrial, stove 
orchid, with broadly, lance-shaped leaves, and a scape 
two feet high, bearing at the end about half-a-dozen 
large golden yellow flowei-s, with a few dull, sanguineous 
spots on the Hp. — From Malacca : rocks on Mount 
Ophir; inti'oduced in 1848, by Mr. T. Lobb. Flowers 
in autumn. Messrs Teitch and Son, of Exeter. 
