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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
management, if not now, he will soon be able to supply every botani¬ 
cal specimen of this new edition to our stock of Chinese ornamental 
shrubs, and which indeed no lover of fine plants should be without. 
—Paxton s Magazine of Botany for July. 
PORTULACE,T:. 
Calandrinia discolor. Two coloured leaved Calendrinia.— 
Among many other novel plants that adorned the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden, in 1824, these species of Calandrinia were not among the 
least beautiful. The C. grandiflora, C. speciosa, and the C; discolor. 
This last greatly resembles the C. grandiflora, in general appearance, 
the flowers are of the same kind of rose-colour, but are much larger 
than the C. grandiflora. They all succeed well, treated as green¬ 
house plants, or better still if planted during the summer months in 
the open border, where both the flowers and foliage attain a larger 
size, and a brighter hue.— Bot. Mag. 
CACTEiE. 
Echinocactus Eyriesii, Sweet-Scented Spring Cactus.—This 
species was presented to the Horticultural Society, some years since, 
by Sir John Lubbock, who had procured it from Mexico, where the 
genus seems to exist in great numbers. It flowers at various seasons, 
and now and then forms an offset. Independently of the large size 
of the flowers, which rival in dimensions those of the Cereus tribe of 
Cacti, it is remarkable for the rich delicious odour they exhale at 
night, at which time its glorious blossoms expand. When young, 
they resemble long sooty-grey horns, covered over with a thick 
shaggy hairiness, and would never be suspected to conceal a form of 
the utmost beauty, or a clear and delicate complexion. When the 
hour of perfection has arrived, and the coarse veil of hair begins to 
be withdrawn, by the expansion of the unfolding petals, one is ama¬ 
zed at the unexpected loveliness which stands revealed in the form 
of this vegetable star, whose rays are of the softest white, while the 
disk is of a rich yellow, formed by the stigma, and the clustering 
anthers.— Bot. Reg. 
Epiphyllum splendid dm, Splendid Epiphyllum.—This very 
splendid species is a native of Mexico, from whence it has been 
lately introduced. It certainly, without exception, far surpasses, in 
size and splendour of the flower, any species or variety at present 
known. Neither the speciosissima nor the grandiflora will bear 
any comparison with it for size. It is, however, entirely destitute 
of that beautiful purple tint so characteristic of the flowers of the C. 
speciosissimus, and has something of an orange tint.— Paxton's Mag. 
of Botany, for April . 
