List of Rare Plants flowering m Botanic Garden, S9S 
burgh Railway Company, which, we have no doubt, will set 
this matter completely at rest. 
Art. XXIII . — List of Rare Plants which have Flowered in the 
Royal Botanic Garden,, Edinburgh, during the last three 
months. Communicated by Professor Graham. 
Mar, 15. 18S5. 
Amaryllis Johnsoni. 
Ardisia paniculata. 
Bauera humilis. 
Bletia hyacinthina. 
Canna gigantea. 
■ iridiflora. 
The principal flower-stem of this 
splendid plant is above ten feet 
high. If placed in rich light 
loam, with plenty of pot-room, 
the plant would get much larger. 
It has never before flowered in 
this country; and a beautiful 
drawing has therefore been 
made of it by Dr Greville for 
Mr Doscoe’s work on the Sci- 
tamineae. 
Canna pedunculata. 
speciosa. 
Columnea hirsuta, 
Chamaerops humilis, mas. 
Epacris attenuata. 
Gnidia sericea. 
Goodyera discolor. 
Hippeastrum splendens. 
J ack sonia. spinosa. 
Laurus Camphora. 
The specimen which has produced 
flowers, is a small plant, struck 
from a cutting two years ago, 
and kept in stove heat, which is 
probably the cause of bringing 
it into flower. The large speci- 
men of the camphor tree in this 
garden, has always been kept 
in a cool situation, and has ne- 
ver been observed in flower, 
although more than half a cen- 
tury old, with a trunk nearly 
2 feet in circumference ; but 
the whole height of the tree 
does not exceed 15 feet, having 
been very frequently pollarded, 
to confine it under the glass. 
Laurus glauca. 
Lobelia surinamensis. 
The rich vermilion blossoms of 
this plant are badly described 
and figured as “ pale red,” in 
Bot. Mag. t. 225. 
Lysinema pungens. 
Mirbelia reticulata. 
Passiflora Herbertiana. 
Pothos foetida. 
This singular plant has been in full 
flower in the open border for 
three weeks. It stands in a 
very dry situation, and is quite 
as strong as it usually is in this 
country when cultivated in 
damp situations, which, in its 
native country, it always inha- 
bits. 
Rhododendron dauricum. 
^ sem- 
pervirens. 
These two beautiful plants were 
covered with flowers in the open 
border in January; but a sharp 
frost coming on at the time, 
completely killed the floAvers on 
the first. The plant, however, 
has not suffered, and has shewn 
many flowers since, as fine as 
those which appeared before. 
The var. /2 sempervirens has 
been in no way injured by the 
frost, being much hardier, and 
much more deserving of culti- 
vation in this climate. 
