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NEW PLANTS. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Berberis undulata, Lindhy. Wa"vy Berberry 
(Journ. Hart. Soe., v. 7). — Nat. Ord., Berberaeoce § Ber- 
berideae. — An evergreen rigid shrnb, from four to six 
feet high, said to be quite hardy. The branches have 
long thi'ee- or five-parted spines ; and thick, undulated, 
oblong-lanceolate leaves, growing in fascicles, and 
fm-nishcd -vvith a few distant spiny teeth. The flowers 
grow in small, roundish, neilrly sessile racemes, scarcely 
so long as the leaves. — From Peru ; near the -snllage of 
Andagles, at an elevation of 12,000 feet. Introduced 
in 1846, by Mr. T. Lobb. Flowers not yet produced in 
England. Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter. 
TROPiEOLUM Smithii, De Candolle. Smith's Indian 
Cress., {Bot. Mag., t. 4385). — Nat. Ord., Tropaiolaeea;, 
§ Tropa3olea3. — Syn., T. peregi'inum, Linnteus. — A very 
pretty climbing annual, with the habit of T. adimcimi. 
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to which it forms an aJraii-able contrast. It has twin- 
ing succulent stems, bearing smooth, dark green, five- 
lobed peltate leaves. The flowers grow singly from 
the axUs of the leaves, attached by long, slender, twisted 
petioles ; the calyx is dull red ; the cuneate fringed 
petals, orange, veined with red — Prom Columbia : 
moimtains of 9000 feet elevation ; introduced in 1847, 
by Mr. W. Lobb. Flowers in summer. Messrs. Veitch 
and Son, of Exeter. 
Clerodendron BETHUHEiVNTjM, Zowc. Capt. Bethuno's 
Clerodendron, (Bot. Mag., t. 4485).— Nat. Ord., Ver- 
benacea;. — A magnificent stove shi'ub, smooth, growing 
five feet or more in height ; the stems obtusely fom-- 
angled. The leaves are very large, cordate aciuninu- 
late, and of soft texture. The flowers grow in large 
lax terminal panicles, the peduncles, pedicels, bracts, 
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calyx, corolla, and long stamens, all of the deepest 
crimson ; the calyx large inflated ; the corolla with a 
slender tube, and an oblique limb of three spreading 
oblong lobes, the larger upper lobe having a large 
white spot at its base, the lateral ones with a smaller 
dense spot of purple. — From Borneo : banks of the 
Sarawak Eiver ; introduced in 1847. newel's in 
summer and autumn. Mr. Low, of Clapton. 
Epidendrl'm oknatum, iemaire. Ornate Epiden- 
di-iun. — Nat. Ord., Orchidacea? 5 Epidendreaj-LieliadeE. 
— A pretty stove epiphyte, without pseudo-bulbs, but 
having numerous erect stems, a foot high. The leaves 
are distichous, lanceolate, or linear-oblong acuminate, 
tinged with violet, especially the veins. The flowers 
grow in drooping nearly simple racemes from the 
summit of the stems ; the corolla fleshy, warty on the 
outside, the sepals and petals reflexed, green, the lip 
white, marked with a beautifully striate bright red 
spot. From St. Thomas ; introduced to Belgium about 
1848. Flowers .' M. A^an Houtte, of Ghent. 
EcHiTES PELTATA, VeUoza. Peltate-lcavcd Echites. 
— Nat. Ord., Apocynaceoe § Wrightese. — A beautiful per- 
ennial stove-twiner of vigorous habit, with a thickish 
fleshy stem, covered with velvety down. The leaves 
are large, opposite, broadly ovate-acuminate, peltate, 
and cuspidate at the base. The flowers gi'ow six or 
eight together, in compact coi-ymbose umbels ; the 
corolla funnel-shaped, furrowed, two to three inches 
long, abruptly contracted below the middle, where it 
swells gTadually into the limb of four irregiUarly- 
reflexed, ovate-acuminate lobes ; the flowers ai'e rich 
yellow on the inner surface, paler on the outside. From 
Brazil ; introduced to Belgium in 1844. Flowers in 
summer. 
Desdrobium paxpebeje, Lindley. Eye-lashed Den- 
drobium. (Joiirn. Hort. Soe. v., 33), — Nat, Ord,, OrcM- 
daceaj, § Malaxefe-Dendi'obidaD. — A handsome stove 
epiphyte, "with erect, club-shaped, teti'agonal stems, 
bearing at top acutely oblong, lance-shaped, leathery 
leaves. The flowers grow in loose, lateral racemes, and 
are white, with a deep yeUow stain at the base of the 
lip ; the sepals are spreading, oblong-acute ; the petals 
obtuse and denticulate ; the lip ovate, obtuse, cucullate, 
covered with soft down, and fringed, near the base, with 
long hairs lilce eye-lashes. — From Moulmein ; intro- 
duced about 1848. Flowers in autiunn. Messrs. Veitch 
and Son, of Exeter. 
Vaeoradia pltj5ieaginoii)E,s, Boissier. Leadwort- 
like Valoradia. {Bot. Mag., t. 4487).— Nat. Ord., Plum- 
baginacete. — Syn., Ceratostigmaplumbaginoides, Bunge; 
Plumbago Larpentaj, Lindhy. — A half-hardy, perennial 
herbaceous plant, growing from a foot to a foot and a 
half high, with nmnerous flexuose branches, forming a 
dense mass. The leaves are alternate, obovate, ciliated. 
The flowers grow in axillary or terminal heads ; the 
bracts scariose, tinged with red; the coroUahypocrateri- 
form, with a slender tube, and a reg-ular spreading limb 
of five heart-shaped, bright blue lobes, paler at the back, 
and of flimsy textm'e. — From China : Pekin and Shang- 
hae ; introduced by Su- G. Larpent in 1847. Flowers 
in autumn. Messrs. Knight and Perry, of Chelsea. 
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