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THE FLORIST. 
Beeberis intermedia. {Oard. Chron. 1860, 143.) Berberidacese. A 
supposed new Berberry of the pinnate or Mahonia section, but apparently very 
near to B. fascicularis, though reported to be more hardy. French Gardens. 
Beschorneria yuccoides. {Bot. Mag. t. 5203.) Amaryllidacese. A 
beautiful dwarf AIoe*like plant, with narrow, glaucous leaves, and a slender, 
coral-coloured scape, 3—4 feet high, gracefully curving to one side, and bearing 
slender drooping racemes of large pendant green flowers, tinged with red, 
resembling in shape those of some long-flowered Fuchsia. Mexico. W. W. 
Saunders^ Esq. 
Calceolaria FLEXUOSA. [Bot. Mag. t. b\5A.) Scrophulariaceee. A useful 
free-blooming decorative plant; vigorous in habit; the leaves stalked, cordate- 
ovate, deeply-toothed; the flowers forming large compound panicles, large, 
inflated, deep yellow, somewhat downy, and seated in large yellow-green calyces. 
Peru. Messrs. Veitch and Son. 
Calliandra HiEMATOCEPHALA. (Bot. Mag. t. 5181.) Leguminosse. A 
lovely hothouse shrub, with the leaves dividing into a pair of pinnse, which are 
pinnate, the filaments of the stamens forming balls of bright crimson threads. 
Native country uncertain : Eastern. Kew. 
Callixenb POLYPHYLLA. {Bot.Mag.t.5\^2.) Smilacese. A dwarf,bushy, 
cool 'greenhouse plant, with numerous small oval or oblong leaves, glaucous 
beneath, the flowers very copious, one from each axil, gracefully drooping, six¬ 
leaved, pure white. Chili. Mr. Standish. 
Calonyction DiVERSiFOLTUM i;. SULPHUREUM. {Flore 1328.) Convolvulacese. 
A pretty climbing stove plant, which may be planted out in summer in hot 
situations. It has pinnately palmatifid leaves, and smallish sulphur-coloured 
flowers, stained with purple in the centre. Java. Continental Gardens. 
Campanula arrecta. Campanulacese. A rather effective border plant, appa¬ 
rently biennial, raised from C. primulsefolia. The whole plant very hairy, with 
oblong, spathulate, Primrose-like leaves, and numerous erect stems, erectly 
branched, rising in succession, and bearing flowers about the size and shape of 
those of the chimney Campanula, but of a deep blue purple. An English variety. 
Mr. Young. 
Campylobotrys regalis. Cinchonacese. An ornamental stove sub-shrub. 
The leaves stalked, broadly-elliptic, narrowing both to the base and apex, the 
surface somewhat bullate, but with a satiny lustre, bronzy green, the main rib 
and principal side veins of a pale greyish colour. Chiapas. 31. Linden. 
Campylobotrys smaragdina. A dwarf stove plant, with oblong-obovate 
sessile leaves, of a satiny shaded green, the numerous principal side veins being 
sunk so as to produce a ridgy and somewhat bullate surface; the young leaves 
tinged with brown. Chiapas. M. Linden. 
Ceanothus oreganus. {Bot. Mag. t. 5177.) Rhamnacese. A hardy ever¬ 
green shrub, with elliptic-obtuse leaves, and panicles of greenish-white flowers. 
Oregon. Messrs. Veitch and Son. 
Ceanothus velutinus. {Bot. Mag. t. 5165.) A very handsome evergreen 
hardy shrub, growing 8—10 feet high, with dark green varnished orbicular- 
elliptic leaves, hoary beneath, and three-nerved. The flowers are white, in erect 
dense thyrse-formed panicles, in early winter. Oregon. Messrs. Veitch and Son. 
Centrostemma multiflorum. {Bot. Mag. t. 5173.) The name preferred 
by botanists for the stove shrub known in gardens as Cyrtoceras reflexum. 
Cereus Claudianus. {Flor. Mag. t. 20.) Cactaceae. A handsome warm 
greenhouse succulent, with the habit of speciosissimus ; the flowers smaller, 
very compactly formed, bright purplish rose with a crimson bar, the outer petals 
entirely crimson. An English variety. Mr. Fry. 
Cham.®batia foliolosa. {Bot. Mag. t. 5171.) Rosacese. A beautiful¬ 
leaved dwarf evergreen bush with white rosaceous flowers, and finely cut tri- 
pinnatisected foliage. California. Messrs. Veitch and Son. 
Cissus (?) PORPHYROPHYLLUS. Vitaceae. A handsome-leaved free-growing 
climber, with slender stems, rooting at the joints, and producing heart-shaped 
leaves about five inches long, of a rich emerald green in the younger stages, 
changing as they become older to a deep purplish green. The leaves are convex, 
and being also longitudinally ribbed with the rib depressed, the satiny richly 
shaded surface is shown to much advantage; the under surface is purple, and 
