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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
feet long, bearing remote alternate ovate-lanceolate, almost sessile leaves, and numerous temiinal and axillary 
flowers which are bell-shaped, with a spreading limb an inch across, and of a deep purple colour. Being of trailing 
habit it would be suitable for planting on rockwork. It seems hardy, but it is recommended to keep the plants in 
a dry frame during winter. From Sikkim- Himalaya, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. Introduced by Dr. Hooker 
in 1849. Flowers in autumn. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Tillandsia DJAH18, Lindley. Empty-bracted Tillandsia (Pa.rt. Fl. Sard., i. 159). — Nat. Ord., BromeliaceiE. — 
A very curious and rather pretty stove epiphyte, with the habit of T. bulbosa. The broad bases of the lower 
leaves are closely imbricated, and enlarged into a kind of bulb. The leaves are narrow, dry, twisted, and recurved, 
the edges much incurved, so that they become grooved ; they are from six inches to a foot long, green, closely 
covered with brownish-red blotches, and speckled with minute white scurfs. The scape is about six inches high, 
closely embraced by the bases of the caulinc leaves ; at top it bears several oblong acuminate bracts of a brilliant 
red, from the third and fourth only of which from the top, two narrow erect tube-like flowers of a purplish lilac 
colour, and rather more than an inch long, are produced. From Buenos Ayres, high up the Parana. Introduced 
in 1811 by Commodore Sullivan. Flowers in spring. Sir C. Lemon, Bart. 
Tillaxdsia emdtens, Lindley. Tall bulbous Tillandsia (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 160). — Nat. Ord., Bromeliaccae. — A 
stove epiphyte related to T. bulbosa, differing in having its leaves shorter than the flower-spike, which is leafless, 
branched, and composed of numerous two-ranked crimson-keeled naked bracts. From St. Domingo. Introduced ? 
Tillaxdsia pumila, Lindley. Dwarf bulbous Tillandsia (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 160). — Nat. Ord., Bromeliaeeae. — 
A stove epiphyte, closely related to T. bulbosa. It has a peculiar lumpish habit, and an abundance of very coarse 
loose scurfs spreading up to the very points of the outer bracts, which are not coloured ; it has, moreover, a 
nearly simple flower-spike, sessile among the leaves. From Para. Introduced ? 
Aster sikkimensis, Hooker. Sikkim Michaelmas Daisy (Sot. Mag., t. 4557). — Nat. Ord., Asteraceoe § 
Tubuliflorce-Asterca?. — A showy hardy perennial, with an erect almost woody stem, three or four feet high, 
bearing glabrous, lanceolate acuminate, spinulosc serrate leaves, and large corymbs of showy purple Sower-heads. 
The stems form almost perfect wood the first year, but, as these are killed down during our winter, it seems to 
assume the character of a perennial herbaceous plant. From the Alpine regions of Sikkim. Introduced by 
Dr. Hooker in 1849. Flowers in October. Eoyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Gyneihtbi ajigenteum, Keen. The Pampas Grass (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 175). — Xat. Ord., Graminaeeae § 
Arundineoe. — Syn., Arundo Sclloana, Sehultes. — One of the few grasses which may be considered ornamental. 
This is a tall reedy perennial, rivalling the bamboo in stature, and having hard wiry rough-edged, grey-green 
leaves. The flowers are in panicles from a foot and a half to two and a half feet long, of a silvery whiteness, 
and forming erect silky plumes. It is apparently quite hardy. From Brazil. Introduced in 1846. Flowers 
towards autumn. Botanic Garden, Glasnevin. 
Adenostoma fasciculata, Hooker and Arnott. Bundle-leaved Adenostoma (Joum. Hort. Hoe., vi. 55). — 
Nat. Ord., Sanguisorbaceos. — A small heath-like shrub growing about two feet high ; its hardiness has not 
been tested. It has slender upright branches, bearing linear concavo-convex, sharp pointed, two or three- 
lobed leaves, arising in tufts from the axils of the first leaves, soon falling, and leaving behind a pair of spiny 
stipules. The flowers are small, white, arranged in terminal panicles. From California. Introduced by Hartweg 
about 1848. Flowers in summer. In point of beauty inferior to the Spiraeas. Horticultural Society of London. 
Consolida Aconiti, Lindley. Aconite-like Branching Larkspur (Joum. Sort. Soc., vi. 55). — Nat. Ord., 
Ranunculacea? { Helleborea;. — Syn., Delphinium Aconiti, Linmcas. — A slender erect branching annual plant, 
growing a foot and a half high, slightly hairy. The leaves arc divided into from three to five pedate linear-pointed 
lobes. The flowers come in loose straggling racemes, on long stalks; they are of a deep bluish lavender colouri 
and consist of five oblong sepals, of which four hang downwards, the fifth extended into a horizontal blunt hairy 
spur, the two petals are united into a fleshy spur enclosed within the fifth sepal. From Erzcroum. Originally 
introduced in 1801; re-introduced in 1849 by H. Calvert, Esq. Flowers in summer. Horticultural Society nt 
London. 
Onctdium LCRrouM, atratum. Dark lurid Oncid (Journ. Hort. Soc., vi. 54). — Nat. Ord., Orehidacose } 
Vandetc-Brassidaj. — A fine stove epiphyte, with the habit and appearance of O. luridum, but having smaller 
flowers, very flat, with olive and rose-coloured sepals anil petals, and a rich crimson lip furnished at the base with 
five purple-black tubercles. From Tampico. Introduced by Hartweg about 1817. Rowers in summer. Horti- 
cultural Society of London. 
Oncidium velutlnum, Lindley. Velvety Oncid (JPast. Vi Card., i. 166).— Xat. Ord.. Orchidacea $ Vandeav 
Brassida). — Syn., O. variegatum, l.indUy in Orel:. Linden. — A pretty stove epiphyte, nearly allied to 0. variegatum ; 
having acute fleshy equitant serrulate leaves, and velvety panic led rose coloured Bowers, of which the back Bepal 
is obcordatc, the lower united into one spoon-shaped body ; the petals are nearly orbioular, the lip having small 
rounded lateral lobes, abruptly passing into the broad two-lobed middle division. From Cuba. Introduced 
(probably) by Mr. Linden in IS IS, Flowers in summer. 
Oncidiim PLAOTLABBJB, Lindley. Flat-lipped ( 'mid {Joum. Wort. Sot., \i 69). Nat Ord., Orchidacea } 
Vimdete-Brassidie. — A rather pretty stove epiphyte in the way of 1 1. Suttoni and 1 1, fioxuosum. The psoudo bull's 
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