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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
spike, and have their beauty enhanced by the large two-lobed 
anthers, of a bright yellow, borne on the subulate filaments of 
the three stamens.— Bot. Mag. 4394. 
VERBENACEiE .—Bidynamia Gymnospermia . 
Gmelina Rheedii (Hooker.) A large stove plant, long culti¬ 
vated at Kew, but only flowered in May last. It attains in a 
pot fourteen or fifteen feet in height, and assumes the form of a 
small straggling tree; with opposite leaves of dark green on the 
upper side, and downy beneath. The flowers occur on a thyrsus, 
are large and handsome ; the corolla is dark tawny yellow, paler, 
and very downy externally, the tube many times longer than the 
calyx, enlarged upwards ; the limb two-lipped, spreading; upper 
lip of two large rounded lobes; lower of three large lobes, re¬ 
sembling the upper ones, except that the intermediate segment is 
more elongated.— Bot. Mag. 4395. 
GESNERiACEiE. —Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Gloxinias , hybrid varieties. Teuchelerii. The flowers of this 
variety have the colours of its parents, not promiscuously blended 
together, but each in distinct alternate flakes of purple and pink, 
pure and bright; on the lower segment of the limb the pink 
becomes a deep rich crimson, extending to the throat of the 
tribe. This very beautiful kind was raised betwixt G. speciosa 
and G. rubra , by M. Joscht, gardener to Count de Thun, of 
Techen, Bohemia. It was introduced to this country by Messrs. 
Rollinson, last summer. 
Albo-coccinea. The flowers are of the most pure and delicate 
white, relieved with a broad dash of rich crimson, extending 
through the lower segment of the limb quite down the tube. It 
appears to be a hybrid, betwixt one of the white-flowering species 
and rubra , and is certainly a very good kind. It flowered in 
the nursery of Messrs. Backhouse, of York, in August 1847.- ' 
Pax. Mag. Bot. 
AcANTHACEiE. —Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Sericographis Ghiesbreghtiana (De Candolle). We are un¬ 
acquainted with the native country of this fine species of a new 
genus nearly related to Justitia. It was introduced a few years 
ago into Belgium, by M. Galleotti, of Brussels, and has since 
found its way into several of the continental nurseries. In 1846, 
Messrs. Rollinson received a plant from M. Makoy, of Liege, 
