SpiitiEA DECTMBEXS, Koch. Decumbent Spiraea. {Ann. 
de Gand., t. 262.)— jSTat. Ord., Eosaceas, § Spineidse. — Syn., 
S. flexTiosa, Ec-ichenbach (not Fischer') ; S. adiantifolia, Belgian 
Gardens. — A very neat and pretty hardy imdershrub, grow- 
ing about a foot in height, with weak trailing tufted stems. 
They are smooth and of a deep brown colour, beaaing alternate 
oborate or oval leares, three-quarters of an inch long, green above, glaucous beneath, entire and wedge-shaped 
at the base, but serrated towards the apes. The flowei's are numerous on the young shoots, and grow in 
terminal corymbs ; the petals are five in number, round, entire, white with a rose-colom-ed eye, and yello'n-ish 
anthers ; they are fragrant. From the mormtains of the Frioul, in ILlyria ; introduced to the Belgian Gardens 
about 1848. Flowers in May and June. A pretty plant for borders, and probably adapted for rock-work. 
PoNTHTEVA M.iCL'LATA, Lindkij. Spotted-flowcrcd Ponthieva. — Nat. Ord., Orchidaecae, § Neottes Cranichidae. 
— Syn: Schonleinia benigna, Klotzsch, M. S. — A curious terrestrial orchid, well worth cultivating for its 
singularity of appearance. The plant, which grows from eight inches to a foot in height, is covered over with 
glandular hairs. From the soil issues two or three oval-oblong acute leaves, having some resemblance to those 
of Arnica montana ; and an erect flower stem or scape, at the upper part of which is a loose raceme of several 
small, curiously formed, and as oddly coloured, flowei's. The colour is a light ashy grey, punctured ■nHth brownish 
red in one part of the flower, yellowish, streaked with piu^jlish red in another. The haii's which aboimd on the 
plant are mostly simple, and tipped, many of them with a small gland. The flowers are small. — From SiUa de 
Caraccas : found both on the ground, and on the trunks of old trees, in forests, in province of Merida ; elevation 
6-7000 feet ; introduced in 1848. Flowers in February. 
Eeica reoalis, Storey. Eoyal Heath. — Ivat. Ord. Ericacea;, § Ericeae. — {Florist, iii., 34.) — A fine showy 
variety, with something of the habit, foliage, and vigour of the vestita group. The flowers grow in large terminal 
whorled heads, and are cylindrical, the tube about an inch in length, divided into four pointed recm'ved segments ; 
the colour is a light rose. — A garden hybrid, raised by Mr. Storey of Whitehill, before 1844. Flowers in summer. 
Messrs. Henderson, Pine Apple Nru-seiy, Edgeware Road. 
