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flowers, with a slightly spreading limb; orange red externally, yellow 
within. Sikkim. Hardy or half-hardy evergreen shrub. Kew Botanic 
Gardens. 
Rhododendron Brookeanum. {Bot. Mag. t. A splendid plant, very 
like, if not identical with, the orange-yellow-flowered variety (so called in 
gardens) of R. javanicum ; the foliage perhaps longer, the corolla some¬ 
what crisped at the edge. Borneo. Stove evergreen shrub. 3Iessrs. Veitch. 
Rhododendron campandlatum Wallichii. {Bot. Mag. t. 4928). This is 
the R. Wallichii of Dr. Hooker. It has the rusty down of the lower side of 
the foliage much reduced, and has pale lilac flowers. Sikkim. Hardy 
evergreen shrub. Kew., ^c. 
Rhododendron formoso-davuricum. [Oard. Chron. 1856, 195). A hybrid 
raised between the two species here named; an early-flowering hardy shrub, 
with pale Peach-coloured flowers, considerably larger than those of its 
female parent davuricum. I. Anderson., Esq. 
Rhododendron pelarqoniiflorum. {Flor. d. Serres, t. 1065). A garden 
variety ; the flowers, according to the Belgian portrait, white, edged with 
deep rose-pink ; the upper segments thickly spotted with the same, and 
with a darker colour down their centre. Belgian Gardens. 
Rhododendron Prince Camille de Rohan. {Flor. d. Serres^ t. 1075). 
A garden variety, with flowers represented to be beautifully crisped at the 
edges ; pink, the upper segments thickly spotted with crimson. Belgian 
Gardens. 
Rhododendron moulmainense. {Bot. Mag. t. A beautiful shrub of 
moderate size, with smoothish leaves and terminal umbels of rather small, 
but delicate white, nearly regular flowers. Moulmein. Greenhouse ever¬ 
green shrub. Messrs. Veitch. 
Salvia boliviana. {Flor. d. Serres, t. 1148.) A sub-shrubby Sage, with 
i te leaves, and dull crimson tubular flowers, with an expanded lower 
and obsolete upper lip ; calyx purple. Bolivia (supposed). Greenhouse sub¬ 
shrub. M. Van Houtte. 
Salvia porphyrantha. {Bot. Mag. t. 4939). A rather spare-growing dwarf 
Sage, with roundish leaves and rich crimson-scarlet flowers of moderate 
size. Texas. Half-hardy sub-shrub. French Gardens. 
Salvia splendens Sodcheti. {Flor. d. Serres., t. 1145.) This is represented 
to be a fine variety of one of the finest of all the Salvias in our gardens, but 
now neglected. This variety is said to be of dwarfer habit, with more 
numerous and brighter-coloured flowers. Warm greenhouse sub-shrub. 
Belgian Gardens. 
Scilla natalensis. {Flor. d. Serres., t. 1043). A stout bulbous plant, with 
a long crowded raceme of pretty pale blue flowers. Natal. Greenhouse 
bulb. M. Van Houtte. 
SpiRiEA Reevesiana FLORE PLENO. {Flor. d. Serres, t. 1097). A handsome 
shrub, with branches of small double white flowers, abundantly produced. 
China. Hardy deciduous shrub. 
Thunbergia LATJRiFOLiA. {Gard. Chron. 1856, 260). A noble stove twiner, 
with large flowers; the colour ultramarine blue, with a whitish throat. 
Native country uncertain. Stove evergreen climber. Messrs. Veitch ^ Son. 
Trop^eolum azureum grandiflorum. {Flor.d. Serres, t. 1160). A decided 
improvement on this well-known blue-flowered climber; the flowers, as 
figured, are upwards of an inch and a quarter in diameter, pale violet, 
with a white centre. Peru. Greenhouse tuberous climber. M.Verschaffelt. 
Tyd.®a amabilis. {Flor. d. Serres, t. 1070). One of the Achimenes tribe of 
the same section as A. picta. The leaves are slightly variegated with 
brown ; and the flowers are very pretty, bright rosy pink, mottled, paler in 
the tube. New Grenada. Stove tuberous perennial. M. Linden. 
Ungnadia speciosa. {Flor.d. Serres, t. 1059). A hardy or half-hardy shrub, 
with pinnate leaves and pink flowers; related to jEscuIus. Texas. 
Verbena tenera Maonetti. {Flor. d. Serres, t. 1129). A beautiful little 
Verbena of trailing habit, with pinnatifid leaves and rosy-lilac flowers, of 
which the segments are distinctly bordered with wliite in a very attractive 
way. Belgian Gardens. 
