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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
small hole left in the top, as soon as the temperature approaches 200 degrees ; and in order to know precisely when 
it is all expelled, yon must drop a few drops of water upon this hole. When the bubbles of air cease rising 
through these drops of water, the air is all expelled, and then you may pass a dry cloth over the hole, and let a 
drop of solder fall upon it. This seals the canister up hermetically, so that the fruit will remain unchanged for a 
couple of years, or longer. The immersion of the cans in the boiling water does not impart the slightest taste of 
their having been cooked to the fruit. The canisters of fruit should he left in a cool place. When wanted for 
use, unsolder the tops with a hot iron, and the fresh fruit is ready—having been perfectly preserved without the aid 
of sugar or brandy. 
rail tlnrr plants. 
TTropediitu Lixdexii, Findley. Linden’s Uropedium (Paxt. FI. Gard. i., 72).—Xat. Ord., Orchidace© § Cy- 
pripede©.—The most remarkable terrestrial orchid known. It is a stemless herbaceous plant, with thick, fleshy, 
shining, green leaves a foot long, blunt, and unequally bidentate at the point. The scape is downy, shorter than 
the leaves, supporting the flowers on separate peduncles six inches long. The sepals are ovate-lanceolate—the 
two lower ones united, And consequently rather broader—four inches long, white streaked with green; the petals 
and lip, the latter broadest, linear-lanceolate, shaggy at the base, twenty-one inches long, white streaked with 
green, the tails having the colour of wine lees. The wild flowers are described as having pale yellow sepals 
streaked with orange, and purple petals orange at the base. From Xew Grenada : woods of 8500 feet elevation, 
overlooking the Lake of Maracaybo. Introduced by M. Linden in 1848. Flowers in May, by M. Pescatore of 
Paris 
Calamixtha mevittloides, Bentham. Mimulus-like Calamintha ( Journ . Hort. Soc., v. 143).—Xat. Ord., 
Labiace© § Melisseas.—A pretty, hardy, half-shrubby plant, but too leafy for bedding purposes. It has erect 
stems, a foot and a half high, regularly and simply branched, and covered with viscid glands. The leaves are 
ovate, acute, coarsely crenate-serrate. The flowers grow in the axils of the upper leaves, solitary,- though each 
succeeded by five or six others, so that there is a long succession of bloom; they are yellow, deeply stained with 
orange in the upper part. It forms a deep green summer bush of some beauty. From California. Introduced by 
Mr. Hartweg, in 1848. Flowers in summer and autumn. Horticultural Society of London. 
Gynoxys fragraxs, Hooker. Fragrant Gynoxis (Pot. May., t. 4511).—Xat. Ord., Asterace© § Tubuliflorese 
Senecione©.—A curious tuberous-rooted stove perennial, with long climbing stems, bearing alternate, rather 
distant, ovate leaves, dark green, and somewhat thick and fleshy. The flowers, which grow in terminal corymbose 
racemes, are rather large, very fragrant, the scent like that of the Stock; the few narrow ray florets are yellow, 
the more numerous florets of the disc also yellow, with the syngenesious anthers orange-coloured. From Guatemala. 
Introduced in 1849. Flowers in winter. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Gatiltheria Lixdeniaxa, Planchon. —Linden’s Gaultheria ( Flore des Serres , v. 501).—Xat. Ord., Yacciniace©. 
—A pretty greenhouse shrub, with smooth rubescent branches, elliptic evergreen leaves, narrowed to the base, 
obtuse and apiculate at the apex, crenulate-serrate on the margins, shining green above. The flowers are in 
racemes, which grow from a few of the upper axils; the calyx and corolla are both pure white, ovate; “the 
flowers are not remarkable for size, but they are pretty, and rather profuse.’’ From Venezuela : mountains of 
Caraccas, elevation 6-7000 feet. Introduced to Continental gardens by Mr. Linden, about 1847. Flowers in 
summer. 
Collaixea at? r ax t i ac a, Decaisne. Orange-flowered Columnea.— (Flore des Serres , t. 552).—Xat. Ord., 
Gesnerace© § Gesnere©.—A pretty member of a curious race of semi-ligneous, semi-epiphytal, semi-trailing, stove 
plants. The stems of the present species are suflruticose and succulent, bearing opposite, equal, short-stalked 
leaves, three to four inches in length, of an oblong-lanceolate, acuminate form; these, as well as the branches, 
calyces, and exterior surface of the corolla are covered more or less with short adpressed hairs. The flowers are 
axillary, on peduncles as long as the leaves ; the corolla two inches long, the tube ventricose towards the base, the 
upper lip erect entire, the lower lip patent trifid, all the segments erose-denticulate; the calyx consists of five 
ovate-acuminate toothed sepals. From Xew Grenada : Andes of Merida, elevation, between 9,000 and 10,000 
feet. Introduced to Continental gardens in ? 1843, by Mr. Linden. Flowers ? in winter. Requires the treat¬ 
ment of Xematanthi, Alloplecti, and other Columneas. 
Echinopsis cristata, var. purpurea, Hooker. Purple-crested Echinopsis (Pot. Mag. t. 4521). — Xat. Ord., 
Cactace© § Cereid©.—Syn. Echinocactus obrepandus, Salm Dyck .—A fine melon-shaped cactus, requiring the 
usual greenhouse treatment. The plant is globose, seven inches in diameter, glossy green, deeply furrowed, the 
projecting ribs, about eighteen in number, nearly straight, and divided into several obtuse-rounded lobes, hence 
called crested; the spines are large, unequal, and slightly curved. The flowers are very large, from two to four 
from a plant, arising from near the summit; they are funnel-shaped, with a green tube, six inches long, bearing 
numerous acuminated scales, and fringed with copious black hair, the scales gradually passing into the numerous 
purplish rose-coloured sepals and petals, of which the inner are broader and deeper coloured than the outer series ; 
the stamens are yellow, numerous, and inserted at the mouth of the tube. From Bolivia, Introduced in 1846. 
Flowers in July. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
