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THE FLORIST. 
Calathea villosa pardina. (Bot. Mag., t. 4973.) This is the C. pardina, 
a handsome stove perennial, with blotched leaves and yellow flowers. New 
Grenada. M. Linden. 
Calythrix virgata. A neat and elegant, though not showy, greenhouse 
evergreen shrub, of slender, spreading, almost pendent habit, with heath-like 
branches, and numerous white starry flowers in bunches. N. Holland. Messrs. 
A. Henderson $ Go. 
Camellia (japonica) Christiana. A free-blooming variety of compact habit ; 
bold foliage; flowers deep veiny salmon-pink, jthe petals pointed, imbricated, 
and somewhat hexagonal in arrangement. A garden variety. Mr. Turner. 
Camellia reticulata plore-pleno. (Bot. Mag. t. 4976.) This differs 
from the common sort in having the flowers loosely double; they are of the 
same or even a brighter rich rose colour, and larger, sometimes 5 i inches in 
diameter. A magnificent conservatory bush. China. Messrs. Standish Noble. 
Campanula Bromeheabiana. ( Gard. Chron ., 1857, 517.) A very fine 
double blue Canterbury Bell, raised at Bracebridge, near Lincoln, by the Rev. 
W. Bromehead. 
Cydonopsis rotundifolia grandiflora. (Bot. Mag., t. 5018.) A 
slender, half-hardy perennial, bearing large bell-shaped, dull green flowers, 
streaked internally with purple. Himalaya. Kew Botanic Gardens. 
Cupressus McNabiana. A stiff-growing slender glaucous Conifer, from 
California ; synonymous with C. glandulosa. 
Cyanophyllum magnificum. A fine-leaved melastomaceous plant, the leaves 
being very large, a foot long, and nearly half as much wide, and beautifully 
stained with purple on the under surface. New Grenada. M. Linden. 
Dianthus pulcherrimus. (Flore d. Serres t. 1172.) A charming dwarf 
herbaceous perennial, forming a close tuft of broad blunt leaves, and producing 
close in their centre a convex mass of crimson flowers, having a white eye. Sup¬ 
posed to be a native of China. Cultivated many years since in England ; re¬ 
appearing in the French gardens. 
Doronicum Bourg^i. (Bot. Mag., t. 4994.) A branched erect green¬ 
house sub-shrub, with purple cineraria-like flowers, the leaves lyrate-pinnatifid ; 
a showy and free-growing plant, intimately related to Cineraria. Canary Isles. 
Kew Botanic Gardens. 
Echeveria canaliculata. (Bot. Mag., t. 4986.) One of a set of curious 
and pretty succulent greenhouse shrubs, with a short upright stem, oblong, 
tapering, fleshy leaves tinged with purple, and racemes of flowers of a bright 
brick red, orange within. Mexico. Kew Botanic Gardens. 
Epigynium acuminatum. (Bot. Mag. t. 5010.) A beautiful vacciniaceous 
evergreen shrub of dwarf habit, probably requiring only a greenhouse ; flowers 
abundant, coral red, in drooping corymbs from the stem below the leaves. 
Bhotan and Kliasya. Mr. Nuttall. 
Eucharis amazonica. (Flore d. Serres, t. 1216—1217.) A charming ever¬ 
green bulbous stove plant, with broad deep green leaves and large white flowers, 
the central cup tinged with green. The flowers are upwards of 4 inches in 
diameter, pendent from the top of an erect scape, and having a slender curved 
tube; related to and closely resembling E. grandiflora, of which it is, perhaps, 
a large flowered variety. Para. N. Linden. 
Eurybia Gunniana salicifolia. [Gard. Chron., 1857, 324.) A green¬ 
house evergreen shrub, of graceful habit, with lance-shaped rugged leaves, and 
short axillary corymbose racemes of flower heads, which are white with a yellow 
disc. Australian. Horticultural Society. 
Farfugium grande. (See our volume for last year, plate 123 ) 
Forsythia suspensa. (Bot. Mag., t. 4995.) A straggling hardy shrub, re¬ 
sembling F. viridissima, but botanically distinct, and protably more ornamental, 
from the broader segments of the equally copious yellow flowers. Long 
cultivated in the Dutch gardens, Japan and China. Messrs. Yeitch Sons. 
Gaillardia (picta) grandiflora. (Flore d. Serres t. 1183.) A magni¬ 
ficent herbaceous plant, probably half-hardy only, and short-lived; flowers 
large, yellow at the edge of the ray, crimson in the lower half, with a large 
dark disc. A garden variety, lielgian Gardens. 
Gardenia citriodora. (Bot. Mag., t. 4987.) A neat stove or warm 
