DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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flowers in size and colour are intermediate, being of an intense 
purplish lilac, with a bright yellow throat. It is a prolific 
bloomer, with small leaves of a dark green, tinged beneath with 
reddish purple, which latter colour also extends to the calyx, 
stems, and peduncles. 
2. Coccinea intermedia. Greatly resembles rosea, which is 
evidently one of its parents ; the flowers, however, are smaller, 
and of a brighter scarlet. 
3. Coccinea superba. This kind bears flowers of a fine deep 
scarlet, with slight marks down the centre of the lobes of the 
corolla, and are somewhat larger than those of A. coccinea, 
4. Coccinea grandijiora ignea. The flowers of this kind are of 
a fine crimson scarlet, very rich and brilliant, of a round form, 
with compact clean edges; it is a free bloomer, and altogether 
very fine. The habit, like those of Nos. 2 and 3, resembles 
A. coccinea. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Bromeliacea. —Hexandria Monogynia. 
Tillandsia stricta (Sprengel). Although the present subject 
is a very old inhabitant of our stoves, being introduced by Lady 
Neal so long ago as 1810, yet as a Bromelwort, it would be 
difficult to find a more beautiful little plant; indeed it is quite a 
gem, and we are induced to bring it before our readers in the 
hope that this notice of its merits may lead to its becoming more 
extensively cultivated, as at present, with a few exceptions, it is 
almost unknown. The plant is very small, has a ball-like ap¬ 
pearance, with its richly coloured flowers bristling from every 
side, and may be grown suspended from a rafter. The specimen 
is but an inch and a half long before the flower-scape appears, 
and this does not extend three inches farther, and is of the richest 
crimson, both stem and bracts, and the tiny flowers are of a fine 
purple. 
Attached to a block of wood, with a little moss to cover the 
roots, and hung from the roof of the stove or orchid-house, it 
will grow and flower freely, and may be easily increased by 
suckers.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Fumariacejs. —Biadelphia Hexandria. 
Bielytra spectabilis (De Candolle). This handsome herbaceous 
plant was first introduced from the North of China to the Hor- 
