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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGI6T. 
[ January, 
climber, and becomes decorated with a profusion of pretty, pale mauve-coloured 
flowers. Dracaena porphyrophylla , an introduction from the South Sea Islands 7 
is a noble plant, with erect, broadly oblong, deep bronzy leaves, having a 
glaucous bloom beneath. Begonia magnified is a New Grenadan, succulent¬ 
stemmed species, with showy rosy-carmine, long-petaled flowers. Monolena 
primulcefiora is a choice dwarf Melastomad, with a profusion of pretty, rosy 
blossoms nestling in the midst of its bold elliptic leaves ; it is also a New Gre¬ 
nadan. Hippeastrum Leopolclii proves to be a very fine Peruvian Amaryllid, 
remarkably robust in growth, and producing large creamy flowers clouded with 
crimson on the basal half, where they are marked with a white star. Scicido- 
calyx digitaliflora is a fine New Grenadan Gesnerad, with shaggy flowers, having 
the tube rosy purple above, white beneath, and the limb green dotted over with 
purple, the flowers being remarkably singular and handsome. M. Van Houtte 
makes known this year more of his fine hybrid Gesnerads, consisting of forms of 
Plectopoma ncegelioides , called suave-rosewn, Colibri, and triumplians , and of Acid - 
menes ncegelioides , called nctna multiflora and diamantina —all of them exceedingly 
beautiful decorative plants. Pepinia aphelandrcefiora is a brilliant ramose 
Bromeliad, with long vermilion flowers ; it comes from Brazil, while from Peru 
we have another remarkably fine plant of the same order in Tillandsia (or Wallisici) 
Lindeni , the flowers of which are of a lively blue colour, and issue from a 
flattened spike of rosy bracts. 
Among choice new Greenhouse Plants, bulbs appear to be in the ascendant. 
The noble Hyacintlms candicans is really a magnificent plant, producing a flower- 
scape upwards of 4 ft. long, bearing a raceme of 15 to 20 large, drooping, white, 
funnel-shaped flowers; it is of South African origin, as also is Hyacintlms 
princeps , a plant of similar habit, but with somewhat smaller and more spreading 
greenish-white flowers. Scillct princeps , again South African, is another noble 
bulb, with a raceme a foot long, on a tall scape, and bearing from 100 to 200 
flowers of a yellowish-green colour, with a purple bar on each segment. Other 
pretty South African Scillas are S. subglauca , with leaves spotted at the base, 
and spikes of bright, rosy-purple flowers ; S. Jloribundci , with the leaves blotched 
with deeper green, and dense spikes of 60 to 100 purplish flowers; and S. ovati- 
folia , also with blotched green leaves, and having short dense spikes of rosy-tinted 
flowers. Blandfordia aurea , of the same Liliaceous order, and a native of New 
South Wales, has grass-like leaves, and beautiful, campanulate, golden-vellow 
flowers. In Grevillea Banksii and G. Preissianci we have two fine Australian 
Proteaceae : the former robust, with broad, pinnatifid leaves, and dense terminal 
heads of red flowers ; the latter with slender bipinnate leaves, cut into filiform 
segments, and pretty yellowish-green and red flowers in racemes. Three useful 
greenhouse climbers have to be added to our lists :— Tacsonici tomentosci , a fine 
New Grenadan plant, with long-tubed, carnation-coloured, or pure rosy-red 
flowers ; Passijlora Halinii , a Mexican species, of slender habit, with peltate oval 
