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THE LADY’S MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
and Dendrobium Cambridgeanum , with golden yellow flowers, also figured 
in Paxton’s Magazine for January 1840, are splendid plants. 
In the Botanical Magazine, perhaps the prettiest flower is Senecio 
Heritieri var. cyanophthalmus , (t. 3827, October,) a bright blue-eyed 
variety of the old plant formerly called Cineraria lanata. Calectasia 
cyanea , (t. 3834, November,) a very beautiful bright blue star-flowered 
plant, from King George’s Sound, is figured from a dried specimen, the 
plant not being yet introduced. In the Botanical Register are Mande- 
villea suaveolens , (t. 7, February,) a climbing plant from Buenos Ayres, 
with large, white, bell-shaped, and very fragrant flowers; three kinds of 
Impatiens , or Touch-me-not, (t. 8 and 9, February, and t. 22, April,) all 
very tall-growing, half-hardy annual plants from Nepal, and two of 
them with rose-coloured flowers, and another is mentioned with large 
pure-white flowers ; Rigidella flammea , (t. 16, March,) a bulbous plant, 
from Mexico, with bright scarlet flowers, which flowered in the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society’s garden, and also at Groom’s, Walworth; Epime- 
dium molaceum , (t. 43, August,) a very pretty Alpine perennial, suit¬ 
able for rockwork, which though not new, is little known, and which 
also flowered at Groom’s ; Hibiscus Wraycc , (t. 69, December,) a green¬ 
house shrub, with large purple flowers, raised from Swan River seeds, 
by Mrs. Wray, of Cheltenham, and which has also flowered in the Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s garden at Chiswick; Batatas betacca , (t. 56, October,) a 
singular-looking plant, with pale lilac flowers, having a very dark eye, 
and large heart-shaped leaves—it is a native of Demerara, but it is stated 
by Mr. May of the Ripon Nursery, who first had it for sale, to be hardy 
enough to stand in a greenhouse ; Lemonia spectdbilis , (t. 59, October,) a 
Diosma-like plant from Cuba, with small crimson, star-like flowers, which 
flowered in a stove, at Messrs. Loddiges’, Hackney; Bignonia Tweedi - 
ana , (t. 45, August,) a beautiful bright yellow trumpet flower, from 
Buenos Ayres; Aquilegia glauca , (t. 46, August,) a sweet-scented 
Columbine, with large cream-coloured flowers, from the Himalayas; 
Portulaca Thellusonii , (t. 31, June,) a splendid half-hardy annual, nearly 
allied to Calandrinia, but with bright scarlet flowers, sent to the Horti¬ 
cultural Society from Italy; Epidmdrum mtellinum (t. 35, June,) a Mex¬ 
ican epiphyte, with bright orange flowers ; and Tradescantia iridescens , 
(t. 34, June), a little stemless, tuberous-rooted Mexican" perennial, with 
large purplish flowers, very suitable for rockwork. 
In Paxton’s Magazine of Botany and Gardening, are Curcuma Ros- 
coedna , (February,) a stove-plant, a kind of Turmeric, with dazzling scarlet 
and orange flowers, which lias flowered with Messrs. Loddiges’, Hackney, 
and with Messrs. Rollison, at Tooting; Thysandtis prolifer us ^ (March,) 
