JANUARY. 
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IIeterocentron MEXICANUM. {Bot. Mag. t. 5166.) Melastomacese. A 
re.illy handsome cool stove dwarfish suffruticose autumn and winter-flowering 
plant, with small elliptic feather-nerved leaves, and large leafy terminal panicles 
of very numerous rosy purple flowers of the usual four-petaled form found in 
this order. Mexico. Messrs. Low ^ Co. 
Imatophyllum cyrtanthiflorum. Amaryllidacese. A fine plant, having 
distichous lorate bluntish leaves, and an erect flower-scape, bearing numerous 
drooping Clivia-like flowers, of a pale flame colour, very like Clivia (or Imato¬ 
phyllum) nobilis, but paler coloured. A Belgian variety. 
IxoRA jucuNDA. {Bot. Mag. t. 5197-) Cinchonaceae. A fine stove shrub, 
with smooth lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate leaves, and terminal corymbs of 
white flowers. Ceylon. Kew. 
Lasiandra Fontanesiana. {Hort. Lind. t. 11.) Melastomaceae. A 
shrubby stove plant, with broad, hairy leaves, and large purple, five-petaled 
flowers. Brazil. M. Linden. 
Linaria bipartita, V. SPLENBIDA. Scrophulariaccse. A very fine and 
richly-coloured annual, flowering profusely; the habit erect; the flowers large, 
of a very deep purple. This species is often grown under the false name of 
macroura. An English variety. Messrs. Carter ^ Co. 
Lonicera japonica iiybrida. a desirable, hardy, evergreen, free-flowering, 
climbing shrub, raised between L. japonica and L. flexuosa. The foliage and 
flowers are much like those of japonica, from which it differs in its greater hardi¬ 
ness, and more profuse flowers. The leaves are ovate, acute; the flowers have a 
downy tube, and are white, changing to yellow, remarkably sweet, and literally 
loading the branches. An English variety. Mr. Ingram. 
Lonicera Standishii. {Flore 2 ser. iii. 63.) A much-branched, hardy, 
ornamental shrub, with deciduous, oval-lanceolate, acuminate, hairy leaves, and 
geminate flowers, white inside, reddish, or violaceous outside, and in form re¬ 
sembling those of L. fragrantissima. China. 
Maranta argyr^a. Marantacese. An elegant dwarf, stove perennial, with 
oblong, lanceolate, acute leaves, which are purplish beneath, and pale green on 
the upper surface, marked with broad, oblique bands of grey. Brazil. M. Linden. 
Methonica grandiflora. {Bot. Mag. t. 5216.) Uvulariese. A fine hot¬ 
house climber, of vigorous habit, with broad lance-shaped leaves, lengthened 
out into a tendril, and large, clear, pale-yellow flowers, with reflexed narrow- 
lanceolate, wavy petals. Fernando Po. Kew. 
Nemophila atomaria, V. ocuLATA. Hydrophyllacese. A very pretty 
variety, in which the flowers are greyish blue, with a black spot at the base of 
each petal It agrees, in other respects, with the plant known as N. atomaria 
ccelestis. An English variety. Mr. W. Thompson. 
(Enothera grandiflora. Onagracese. A fine showy hardy border flower, 
having the habit of (E. biennis, with the flowers of (E. macrocarpa ; the upper 
part of the stems crowded with large bright-yellow flowers, of a very showy 
character. It is sometimes called (E. Lamarckiana. N. America. Messrs. 
Carter and Co. 
OEnothera ripario-glauca. a very handsome decorative plant, of branch¬ 
ing habit, with lance-shaped leaves, and flowers nearly or quite two inches in 
diameter, rich deep yellow. An English variety, raised by crossing CE. riparia 
with (E. glauca, and well suited for bedding purposes. Mr. J. Young. 
P.®ONiA Moutan, V. Alexander II. {L'lllust. Hort. t. 237.) Banunculacese. 
A fine large-flowered variety, full double, deep rosy crimson shaded with sal¬ 
mon-colour, becoming pale rose towards the margins of the petals, which are 
lacerately-fringed. A Belgian variety. M. Verschaffelt. 
PiEONiA Moutan, v. Elizabeth, {lllust. Bouq. t. 35.) A fine variety with 
immense flowers, 9—12 inches in diameter, double rosy-crimson in the centre, 
shading ofi* to a lighter rose towards the margin. It is very handsome. Of 
continental garden origin. Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son. 
Pentapterygium RUGOSUM. {Bot. Mag. t. 5198.) Vacciniacese. A curious 
greenhouse shrub, with lanceolate serrate leaves, and producing from the old 
wood pendulous corymbs of pentagonal tubular flowers, which are transparent 
waxy white, and transversely marked by distant red wavy lines. It has been 
called Vacciuium rugosum. Mountains of India. Messrs. Veiteh and Son. 
