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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
We learn from Mr. Laurentius, wlio cultivates for sale an extensive collection 
of Agaves and allied plants, that he acquired, in the autumn of 1868, the 
stock of these two forms of Agave liorrida from Mr. Besserer, by whom they had 
been discovered in, and introduced from, Mexico, a country which has furnished 
us with many fine species of this most beautiful and interesting genus. The 
name of Agave horrida has, we understand, been confirmed by General Jacobi, 
the learned monographer of this interesting family.—M. 
NEW PLANTS OF 1869. 
S ONTINUIjSTG our brief enumeration of the New Plants of 1869, we next 
come to the group of Stove Plants, of which it must be said that their 
f name is legion. We commence with those of climbing habit, amongst 
which occur two Nicaraguan species of vine of a very ornamental character, 
namely, Vitis javalensis^ with cordate velvety green leaves, and compound cymes of 
bright scarlet flowers ; and V. chontalensis, with trifoliolate bright green leaves, and 
a great profusion of scarlet flowers. Cohoeapendulijlora^ixo-m the mountains of Carac- 
cas, is a slender graceful climber, with the edge of the bell-shaped corollas divided 
into five long strap-shaped wavy lobes. Passijloi'a Lawsoniana^ a garden hybrid, 
has ovate-oblong leaves, and handsome reddish flowers, with the corona white 
at the base, and banded with purple above. Of shrubby habit, we have Godoya 
splendida^ from Columbia, a noble plant, with large pinnate leaves, and according to 
M. Linden, pure white fragrant flowers as large as lilies, arranged in a monster thyrse. 
Posoqueva multiflora^ from Brazil, is another magnificent shrub, with broad leathery 
leaves, and large white fragrant flowers, having a slender tube four inches long. 
Delostoma dentatum^ from Ecuador, is a bignoniaceous shrub, with large foliage, 
and erect racemes of large sub-campanulate blush-white fox-glove-hke flowers. 
Codioeim (or Croton) variegatum Hoolcerianum is a shrub of remarkable beauty, 
with the large, smooth, elliptic dark-green leaves marked along the centre rib 
with a vandyked band of deep yellow; it comes from Erromango. Turning to 
soft-wooded subjects, Begonia Sedeni, a garden hybrid, with some of the blood 
of B. boliviensis, and bearing a profusion of rich carmine-crimson flowers, is one 
of the most showy of its race, and a most decided acquisition. Fittonia gigantea 
resembles the old Fittonia (Gymnostachyum) Verschaffeltii, in form and mark¬ 
ing, but is altogether of larger growth ; it is an Ecuador species. Drymonia 
turialvcB^ from Ecuador, is of erect habit, with tetragonal stems, robust bullate 
glistening leaves, shaded with reddish brown, and tubular pale-yellow axillary 
flowers. Eranthemum Andersoni, alias elegans, an Indian plant, introduced by way 
of Trinidad, is a remarkably floriferous ornamental acanthad, its white flowers, 
with crimson-spotted lower lip, being produced for a long time in succession 
from the same spikes. Bertolonia or Monolcena primulcBjiora, from Ecuador, is a 
charming dwarf herb, with lustrous dark-green leaves, nestling in the open centre 
of which come a profusion of rosy-pink flowers on short peduncles. Peperomia 
