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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Stapelieae.—A stove climbing undershrub. The leaves are oval, acuminate, puberulous below, large and growing 
opposite each other. The umbellate rotate flowers, which grow on pedicels as long as the flowers themselves, are 
of a purple colour. From Venezuela : banks 
of the Aragon. Introduced to Berlin about 
1848. Flowers? ( [A. mcicrophylla , Kar- 
sten, is said to be the Marsdenia maculata , 
Hooker, in Bot. Mag., t. 4299 ; the Ascle- 
pias macropliylla , of Willdenow’s herba¬ 
rium. ] 
Cunningham. 
Dampier’s Clianth ( Paxt . FI. Gard., i., t. 
10).—Hat. Ord., Fabaceae § Papilionaceae. 
Syn., G. Oxleyi, Cunningham; Donia spe- 
ciosa, Don; Kennedya speciosa, Cunningham. 
■—A beautiful herbaceous perennial, with 
stout decumbent shaggy stems, furnished 
with pinnate leaves of about five pairs of 
leaflets with an odd one; they are opposite 
obovate-oblong, covered with long hairs which 
give them a greyish aspect; at their base 
are the coarsely-cut stipules. The flowers 
grow in a kind of umbel which proceeds 
from a peduncle shorter than the leaves and 
springing from their axils; they are large 
and of a brilliant crimson scarlet, the stan¬ 
dard ovate-ohlong acuminate, two inches 
long, having a convex, shining, deep purple 
stain at the base, the keel large, falcate, 
acuminate, two inches long, the wings small 
and narrow, about an inch in length; the 
standard is thrown back so as to take the 
same plane as the keel, which gives the 
corolla a singularly narrow and elongated 
appearance. From Hew Holland : sterile 
parts of the interior, and north-west coast. 
Introduced in 1849. Flowers in summer. 
Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter. 
ClPURA HoRTHIANA, VAR. CCELESTIS, 
Morren. Blue marked Horth’s Cipura {Ann. 
de Gand ., t. 258).—Hat. Ord., Iridaceoe.— 
Syn : M. coelestis, Lemaire. —A very elegant 
cool stove perennial, possessing, however, 
the bad quality of having very ephemeral 
flowers, compensated in some measure by their quick succession. The plant is herbaceous, with broadly ensiform 
distichous leaves, and a tall winged scape bearing the flowers near the top. The flowers are six-parted, the 
three outer divisions larger obovate deflexed, white, marked at the base with brownish-red transverse lines, the 
inner divisions smaller, revolute, greenish at the base, with transverse bands of red-brown, the upper part banded with 
bluish-purple. From Brazil. Introduced to Belgium in 1847 by M. De Vos. Flowers for a long time in summer. 
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