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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
colour very dark ; lacing clear yellow and heavy; tube elevated ; 
and an excellent trusser. 
Buck’s George the Fourth. Good yellow eye; groundcolour 
rich crimson ; lacing neat and regular; pips circular and flat; no 
fault can be found except that the truss is not always equal. 
Stead’s Telegraph. Good in every respect, and remarkable for 
its brilliant, dark scarlet, ground colour. 
Mitchell’s Lord Nelson. This flower resembles one better 
known as Pearson’s Alexander , on which it is an improvement, 
in being stouter in texture, and consequently less liable to droop, 
besides which it is larger; the eye is good, clear yellow; tube 
elevated; lacing regular and neat; ground colour very dark; 
outline circular, and a good trusser. 
F. Wholmes. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Solane.®. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Solandra Icevis (Hort.) Of the four species of Solandra de¬ 
scribed by authors, not one accords with the present; nor is 
any now in cultivation to be compared with it for the size, and 
beauty, and fragrance of the blossoms. It was received from 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., in November, 1847, under the 
name here adopted, by which it was obtained by those gentlemen 
from the continent, without any indication of its introduction to 
Europe, or of the country of which it is a native, a practice un¬ 
fortunately general, and which cannot be too strongly condemned. 
Messrs. Lucombe and Pince find its culture extremely easy in a 
moderately warm house, requiring nothing but the ordinary treat¬ 
ment of stove plants. Its somewhat climbing stems grow best 
trailed round a cylindrical trellis. Young plants, not two feet 
high, produce the noble blossoms. The leaves are thick and 
glossy, and form an agreeable contrast with the coarse foliage of 
other Solandrse. The flowers are very large, almost a foot long, 
solitary, terminal; the corolla is nearly thrice the length of the 
calyx, funnel-shaped, greenish cream-colour, white at the limb; 
the lower half of the tube is slender, striated; the upper half 
bell-shaped, but contracted at the mouth, and there branched and 
