NEW PLANTS. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Pentahhaphia cubensis, Secaisnc. — Cuban Pen- 
tarhaphia {Journ. Sort. Soc, v. 8S).. — Nat. Orel., Ges- 
neraeeie, § Gesnereas. — A neat and pretty dwarf, shrubby 
plant, of compact habit, with obovate, dark-coloured 
evergreen leaves, orenated near the point. The flowers 
grow in the axUs of the leaves, and are attached by 
1 .spine, and sometimes having spiny marginal teeth. 
I The flowers are borne in erect panicled racemes, on a 
; long peduncle quite clear of leaves ; they are unusually 
small. From Peru : mountains near Loxa ; intro- 
duced about 1846, by Mr. T. Lobb. Flowers not yet 
produced in England. Messrs. Veitch and Son, of 
Exeter. 
Drymonia omstata, Miquel. Crested Drymonia. — 
Nat. Ord., Gesneraeese, § Episciefe. — Syn., D. sarmentu- 
losa, Lemaire. — A pretty herbaceous stove perennial, 
with round fleshy rooting epiphytal stems, bearing large 
opposite oval lanceolate aciuninate leaves, irregularly 
toothed, and attached by longish petioles. The flowers 
are axiUaiy, on thickish peduncles ; the calyx is large 
five-parted, with fringed segments ; the coroUa, consist- 
ing of a depressed campanulate tube, produced behind 
into an obtuse spin: ; the limb di-idded into five irregu- 
larly toothed lobes, dingy white, with faint purplish 
dotted lines down the centre, the upper portion of the 
tlu-oat bearing yellow glandular hairs. — From Dutch 
Guinea ; introduced to Belgiiun in ] 845. Flowers in 
summer and autumn. 
Ophelia corymbosa, Grisebach. Corymbose Ophelia 
{Bot. Mag. t. 4489). Nat. Ord,, Gentianaceue § Genti- 
aneae. — Syn. Swertia corymbosa, Wight. — A greenhouse 
or half-hardy annual, growing a foot high, with foui-- 
angled stems, corymbosely branched in the upper pai-t. 
slender stalks an inch long ; corolla about an inch long, 
tubular, curved, and of a rich scarlet; calyx of five, 
straight, narrow lobes, "not unlike five brown needles." 
It requires a cool stove, and remains a considerable 
time in bloom. — From Cuba; introduced in 1848. 
Flowers in summer. Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple 
Place, Edgeware Eoad. 
Beebeeis japonica, Spremjel. Japanese Berberry, 
(Journ. Sort. Sac, v. 20). — Nat. Ord., Berberacese, 
§ Berberidese. — Syn., Mahonia japonica, De Candolle; 
Berberis BeaUii, Fortune. — A noble evergreen shrub, 
the most gigantic of the berberries. The leaves are 
pinnate, nearly fifteen inches long, and of leathery 
textm'e, with four pairs of leaflets, and the terminal 
ones, which are five inches long, deeply cordate, with 
coarse spiny teeth on each side ; the lateral leaflets 
slightly cordate, upwards of thi-ee inches long, with 
sti'ong spiny teeth on each side, and a stiff tiiangular 
point. — -From China, 150 miles north of Shanghae; 
introduced in 1849 by Mr. Fortune. Flowers not yet 
produced in England. Messrs. Standish and Noble, of 
Bagshot. 
Berberis loxensis, Bentham. Loxa Berberry 
(Journ. Sort. Soc, v. 7). — Nat. Ord., Berberacea; § 
Berberideaj. — An evergreen shrub, the hardiness of 
which is uncertain. Its branches are fui'nished with 
small palmated spines, and very beautiful blunt obovate 
leaves, of a bright green coloui', always tipped with a 
The leaves are opposite, obovate-spathulate. The 
flowers in terminal corymbs, pale purple, with a white 
eye ; the corolla rotate, deeply cut into four spreading 
obovate veined segments. — From the NeUgherry Moun- 
tains ; introduced in 1848, by Dr. Schmidt. Flowers 
in summer. Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
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