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belongs to tlie Euphorbiaceae, will be welcome in our hothouses on account 
of its beauty, its remarkable structure, and its total dissimilarity from 
every other plant in cultivation. 
Another stove plant of considerable beauty is the Clavija fulgens (Bot. 
Mag., t. 5626), flowered at Kew ; a shrub of tall, erect habit, with very large 
obcuneately spathulate leaves, and dense racemes, 4 or 5 inches long, of rich 
orange red flowers, seated in the axils of the leaves. As a free-growing stove 
plant of stately habit it is well worth growing. Impatiens latifolia (Bot. 
Mag., t. 5625), is another Kew plant obtained from Ceylon. It is some¬ 
thing like the I. platypetala formerly grown, perhaps scarcely so ornamental, 
but its abundant, large, flat, purple flowers, and its facility of cultivation may 
render it useful. Mr. Bull has had under the name of Siphocampylus 
fulgens a very pretty stove perennial, which should bear the name of Sipho¬ 
campylus Humboldtianus (Bot. Mag., t. 5631). Its habit is suffruticose, 
rather bushy than straggling, the stems bearing ovate-lanceolate leaves, and 
stalked tubular curved flowers of a bright vermilion scarlet with yellow 
throat, and having the limb-segments spread out like a five-pointed star. 
M. Van Houtte, in a recent Number of the “ Flore des Serres,” introduces 
to us some very beautiful novel forms of Nmgelia (t. 1671-2)—those named 
Lindleyana and rosea punctatissima being particularly beautiful. They have 
richly coloured leaves in the way of zebrina and cinnabarina, but the flowers 
are yellow; the former of a deep primrose yellow, speckled on the limb 
with rosy crimson, and tinted with the same colour on the tube ; the latter 
of a pale straw-colour, also dotted on the limb and tinted on the tube with a 
lively flush of rosy crimson. 
Among Orchids the curious and somewhat ornamental Oncidium serratum 
(Bot. Mag., t. 5682), has been flowered at Farnham Castle. It belongs to 
the Cyrtochilum group, has a twining flower-scape some 9 or 10 feet long, 
and bears a lax many-flowered panicle of odd-looking blossoms, the parts 
of which are of a chocolate brown, margined and tipped with yellow, the 
lip having rather more yellow than the rest. The upper sepal is broad and 
kidney-shaped, the lateral ones obovate-lanceolate, and much elongated; the 
petals ovate, acute, and connivent; and the lip small and hastate. It is a 
Peruvian species, requiring moderately cool treatment, and has been sold 
under the name of 0. diadema. Two pretty little Orchids deserving of 
record here are the cream-coloured Angrcecum citratum (Bot. Mag., t. 5624), 
a native of Madagascar, and the rosy-lipped Sarcanthus erinaceus (Bot. Mag., 
t. 5630), from Moulmein, both small-flowered, but little gems in their way. 
As an acquisition amongst stove bulbs we may particularise the Hippeas- 
trmn Alberti (LTllust. Ilort., t. 498), a fine double-flowered orange red 
Amaryllis, introduced from Cuba by Mr. Albert Wagner, and now in the 
hands of M. Laurentius of Leipsig. Another plant of the same Amaryl- 
lidaceous family, recently made known, is Griffinia Blumenavia (Bev. Hort., 
1867, 32), a species introduced to the Berlin garden from St. Catherine’s 
by Dr. Blumenau, and forming a pretty dwarf bulb, with broadish leaves, 
and an umbellate inflorescence of pretty flowers, which are white, marked 
on the upper segments with a central bar of rose colour. 
Pleroma sarmentosa (Bot. Mag., t, 5629), is a very showy sub-shrubby 
greenhouse plaiit from the cool valleys of Peru, where it is found at an 
altitude of 8000 feet. It is slender, straggling, and subscandent in habit, 
and has ovate, acute, hairy, bright green, five-to-seven-nerved leaves, and very 
handsome deep violet flowers 2£ inches across, and very much resembling 
those of P. elegans. This has been flowered by Mr. Isaac Anderson-Henry. 
