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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OE NEW PLANTS. 
(cuspidate). The flowers are white, in round heads, of the size 
and with the appearance of the c double’ Gueldres Rose.”— Bot . 
Beg. 51-47. 
Zingiber ace®. —Monandria Monogynia, 
Amomum vitellinum. The history of this plant is unknown. 
It flowered in the garden of the Horticultural Society in May last, 
and is supposed to have been received from the East India 
Company. In the Society’s Journal it is described as a plant 
about two feet high, with oblong leaves, a little w T avy, pale green, 
slightly stalked above a broad thin-edged petiole, whose upper 
free end is rounded. The flowers are deep yellow, strongly veined 
with red, and grow in a short close spike, sessile among the upper 
leaves. The back petals are short, with sharp teeth, the lip is 
oblong, coarsely and irregularly toothed, and slightly three-lobed; 
the crest of the anther is three-parted and jagged ; the lateral 
divisions being about half the size of that in the middle. The 
anther itself is spurless. It requires a shaded position in the 
stove.— Bot. Beg. 52-47. 
Ternstromiace.®. —Monadelphia Polyandria. 
Camellia japonica miniata (Low). This variety was raised by 
Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, from seeds saved on a plant 
of C. myrtifolia , which produced some imperfect blooms a few 
years ago ; and Mr. Low has every reason to think that it was 
fertilised with the pollen of a sickly Lady Hume’s Blush which 
stood beside it, and produced very irregular and imperfect flowers; 
the resulting plant resembles Myrtifolia in its very finest con¬ 
dition ; and when nearly full blown, it has some of the beautiful 
blush-white of Lady Hume's Blush in its centre. The colour of 
its flowers during the early part of the season is the finest 
crimson; and later in the spring, each has three or four rows of 
petals of a blush-wliite, having the crimson in the centre. On 
the whole, it is one of the best Camellias, both as to form, regu¬ 
larity, and constancy; the habit is also good, having short, 
medium-sized, dark green leaves, and is an abundant bloomer.— 
Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Scrophulariace® . —Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Penstemon M‘Ewani. This hybrid was raised two years ago 
