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greenhouse evergreen shrub, remarkably free flowering; flowers pure white, 
deliciously scented, numerous, in short clusters from the axils of the leaves. 
Natal. Chelsea Botanic Gardens. 
Gesnera cinnabarina (Illust. Bouq., t. 6.) A splendid tuberous stove 
perennial; leaves large, ornamented with dense, rich, reddish-bronzy hairs; 
flowers bright vermilion-scarlet, in long pyramidal racemes. Mexico. Messrs. 
E. G. Henderson $ Son. 
Gesnera densiflora. (Illust. Bouq. t. 8.) A very ornamental stove plant 
of sub-shrubby habit; flowers ventricose, tubular ; orange scarlet, with spotted 
lower segments, growing in stalked bunches of 4-6 from the axils of the leaves. 
Mexico. Messrs. E. G. Henderson Son. 
Gesnera oblongata splendens. A fine showy stove perennial sub- 
shrubby plant, an improved variety of the well-known ornamental G. oblongata; 
leaves red-haired velvety; flowers free, orange-scarlet, spotted. A garden 
variety. Royal Gardens, Frogmore. 
Grevillea alpestris. (Bot. Mag., t. 5007.) A pretty greenhouse ever¬ 
green shrub, bearing copious showy bright red curved flowers, merging into 
yellow in the upper half. South Australian. Messrs. Rollisson. 
Grevillea Drummondi. A fine evergreen greenhouse shrub, interesting 
and distinct-looking, but not showy ; habit erect; leaves finely divided; flowers 
in racemes, cream coloured. Swan River. Messrs. Veitch ^ Son. 
H^manthus cinnabarinus. (Flore d. Serres, t. 1193.) A pretty stove 
bulb, with oval oblong leaves, and many-flowered umbels of vermilion coloured 
flowers, elevated on stoutish scapes. Gaboon. Jar din des Plantes. 
Heliotropium (peruvianum) compactum. A dwarf and compact variety, 
with very pale lilac flowers ; useful, if constant to these characters, for beds. 
A garden variety. Mr. J. Cole. 
Hoya coronaria. (Bot. Mag., t. 4969.) A strong-growing, shrubby, 
stove climber, with elliptic fleshy leaves, and umbels of pale greenish yellow 
flowers, having a small red spot at the base of each of the five segments. Java. 
Messrs. Veitch Sf Son. 
Hydrangea (japonica) aureo-variegata superba. A fine-looking 
vigorous greenhouse shrub, bearing large foliage, with bold straw coloured 
variegations, quite distinct from the white variegated kinds. A garden variety. 
Mr. Salter. 
Juniperus Bonatiana. ( Gard. Chron., 1857, 548.) An evergreen tree 
near J. thurifera. Cultivated in the Italian gardens. 
Juniperus Cabiang^e. (Gard. Chron., 1857, 548.) An evergreen shrub 
cultivated in the Italian Gardens. Received from Belgium under the name of 
J. phoenicia. 
Lobelia texensis. (Bot. Mag., t. 4964.) A fine robust half hardy peren¬ 
nial, two or three feet high, with long dense racemes of showy scarlet flowers. 
Texas. Kew Botanic Gardens. 
Lupinus Menziesi. (Bot. Mag., t. 5019.) Areally handsome hardy erect 
annual, with hairy leaves and dense spreading spikes of rich yellow flowers. 
California 
Monoch^tum ensiferum. (Illust. Bouq., t. 8.) A charming greenhouse 
soft-wooded shrub, of remarkably neat bushy habit; foliage small, cheerful; 
flowers vivid rose colour, like Chironia, the scarlet claw-like stamens remaining 
gay after the petals have fallen. Oaxaca, Mexico. Messrs. E. G. Henderson # Son. 
Niphasa an^ctochiLjEFOlia. A neat stove perennial with ornamental 
foliage, olive green, marked with silvery veins ; flowers white. S. America. 
Messrs. Rollisson. 
Oxalis corniculata atropurpurea. (Flore d. Serres t. 1205.) A dwarf 
annual Oxalis, with purplish clover-like leaves. A garden variety. M. Van Houtte. 
Passiflora tinifolia. (Bot. Mag., t. 4958.) A handsome evergreen stove 
climber, near P. laurifolia, the sepals whitish outside, red within, the corona 
white, red, and purple in concentric bars. Guiana. C. S. Parker, Esq. 
Pentstemon Torreyi. (Gard. Chron., 1857, 664— fig. 775.) This is a 
deeper coloured beardless, or nearly beardless variety of P. barbatum; a very 
showy herbaceous perennial. New Mexico. 
Petunias. —The best of these we hope to notice fully hereafter. 
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