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NEW PLAKTS. 
Obituary. — Febmary 10th. — Mr. Smith, gardener at 
Hopetoun House. Mr. Smith commenced his profes- 
sional life at Ormiston Hall, in 1790, and was after- 
wards promoted to the charge of the gardens at that 
place, from whence he removed to the more extensive 
sphere at Hopetomi ; being nearly all his life in the 
service of the same noble family. Mr. Smith was one 
of the early members of the Caledonian Horticultmral 
Society ; and one of the first professional men in Scot- 
land admitted as a Follow of the Horticultural Society 
of London. As a horticulturist, the deceased gentle- 
man was well known, and universally respected. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
LiMNANTHES ROSEA, Jlcntkam. Eose-ooloiured Lim- 
uanthes. {Jonrn. Sort. Soc, iv., 78.) — iS'at. Ord., Tropaj- 
olacea;, § Limnantheaj. — Syn., L. pulchcUa, Hartu-eg. — 
A hardy annual plant, with prostrate branches, bearing 
leaves of variable form, the parts being all Kuear ; some- 
times they are quite simple, sometimes pinnately 
divided, and at other times cut in a bipinnate maimer. 
The flowers are axillary, growing singly on longish 
upright stalks, and consist of five obcordate petals, 
of a pale dull rose coloiu-. It is not very shoAvy, and 
should be grown in a dampish, cool place. — From Cali- 
fornia : swampy places in the vaUey of the Sacramento ; 
introduced, in 1848, by Mr. Hartweg. Flowers in smn- 
mor. Horticiiltm-al Society of London. 
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Caloohortus PAiLiDus, Schultes. Pale-flowered 
Calochortus. — Nat. Ord., LUiacefe, § Tulipcaj. — A pretty, 
bulbous-rooted, half-hardy perennial, producing a tuft 
of grass-like channelled leaves, and from among them a 
flowering-stem six or eight mches high, supporting 
three or foiu: blossoms, each on a slender peduncle ; 
these pedimoles grow in an umbellato manner fi'om 
the base of two or three small leaves, which are piro- 
duccd at the top of the common stem. The flowers arc 
hexapetaloid, the three outer divisions small, ovate- 
oblong, obtuse ; the three inner much larger, obovate, 
rounded at the apex, and attenuated at the base ; they 
are pale yellowish buff colour, mth a broad angulai- 
blotch of dark reddish-brown in the centre. — From 
Mexico ; introduced to Belgium about 1844. Flowers 
in the latter part of summer, 
Stanhopea cirrhata, Lindky. Cirrhate-eolumned 
Stanhopea. (Journ. Sort. Soc, v., 37.) — Nat. Ord., Or- 
chidaceaj, § Vaudeaj-MaxiUaridaB. — ^A very distinct stove 
epiphyte, but apparently not of much beauty. The 
flowers arc solitary, not in spikes ; the colour not known ; 
the colmun is wingless, and extended into a pair of 
feelers. — From iS'icaragua ; collected by M. AVarczewitz ; 
introduced, in 1848, by G. U. Skinner, Esq. Flowers ? — 
Cleisostoma fuscum, LincUey. Fuscous Cleisostoma. 
{Journ. Sort. Soc, v., 80).^ — iSTat. Ord., Orchidaceai, § 
VandeoB-Sarcanthida;. — A stove epiphyte, with oblong, 
distichous, leathery leaves, nine inches long, and close 
panicles of dingy, yellowish-brown flowers ; the sepals 
and petals oblong; the lip yellow, thrcc-lobed. Per- 
haps only a variety of C. latifoUum. — From the East 
Indies ; introduced in 1846. Flowers in autmnn. Hon. 
East India Company. 
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