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NEW AND KABE PLANTS. 
— Sjti., T. bulbosa picta, Hooker. — A stove epiphyte with the habit of T. bulbosa, from -which it is distinguished 
by having long upper leaves, a distinctly-branched spike of flowers, deep crimson foliaceous bracts, apparently not 
scurfy, and a longer white-edged corolla. From Jamaica and Para. Introduced in 1845. Flowers in winter. 
Almeidea hubua, St. Hilairc, Red-flowered Almeidea {Sot. Mag. t. 4548). — Nat. Ord., Rutacese j Cuspariea;. 
— A handsome stove shrub, of branching habit, growing three to five feet high, and furnished with broadly 
lanceolate alternate pctiolate leaves, which are acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, and entire on the margin. 
The flowers come in thyrsoid panicles, and consist of a short five-toothed calyx and five obovate-spathulate obtuse 
spreading petals, all of a deep bright rose colour. 
It is a slow-growing plant ; and at Kew has 
been grown in the palm-stove, with the benefit 
of bottom heat. From Brazil. Introduced be- 
fore 1850, through M. Makoy of Liege. Flowers 
in the autumn. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Potentllla ochbeata, Lindley. Ochreate 
Potentil (Paxt. 17. Gard., i. 
144). — Nat. Ord., Rosaceae 
§ Potentillidoe. — A curious 
and pretty hardy shrub, 
forming a dwarf hairy 
bush, with weak spreading 
branches. The leaves are 
short-stalked, pinnate or 
digitate, the oblong revo- 
lute leaflets varying in 
number from five to nine ; 
they have a grey coat 
above, and are whitish and 
hairy beneath ; some are 
usually two-lobed. The 
flowers are terminal, with 
five linear-lanceolate very 
hairy bracts, having a red ' -, 
1. Almeidea rubra. 2. Poteidilta ochrcala. 
scabrous keel, triangular sepals of the same length yellow inside, and nearly circular petals of firm texture and 
a bright yellow colour. From the Himalayas. Introduced, about 1849, by Major Madden. Flowers in Septem- 
Ihl ber. Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin. 
