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NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
boat-shaped. It is a pretty plant for planting on bare surfaces of soil in hothouses, or for hanging over baskets or 
pots in which other plants are suspended. Native country unknown. Introduced before 1848. Flowers in 
spring and summer, or throughout the year. 
Angrjecum virens, Bindley. Greenish-flowered Angrsecum ( Paxt. FI. Gard., i., 25).—Nat. Ord., Orchidacece 
§ Yandeae-Sarcanthideae.—A noble-looking stove epiphyte with an erect rooting stem, and flaccid glaucous dis¬ 
tichous leaves of a broad strap-shaped form. The flowers grow on erect spikes about two feet long; the sepals 
and petals are narrow, lance-shaped, greenish; the lip is subrotund, with the apex convolute and cuspidate, white, 
conspicuously tinged with green. From the Isle of Bourbon. Introduced in 1847. Flowers in winter or spring. 
Anigozanthos tyrianthina, Hooker. Tyrian-purple Anigozanthos {Bot. Mag , t. 4507).—Nat. Ord., Hsemo- 
doraceae.—A handsome greenhouse perennial, with a short thick woody caudex, and a leafy stem, three to five feet 
high, simple, and hoary with downy tomentum. The root leaves are a foot long, linear, striated, equitant, pale green, 
the edges scabrous. The flowers grow in close one-sided spikes, upon the terminal branches of the paniculated stem ; 
they consist of a long curved tube, swollen at the base, and divided into half-a-dozen pointed segments, and as well 
as the stalks are clothed with a dense wool of the richest Tyrian pimple ; they are glabrous and straw-coloured on 
the inner surface. From Australia : south-west of the Swan Biver settlement. Not yet introduced. Flowers ? 
Philodendron pertusum, Kunth and Bouche. Bored-leaved Philodendron {Ann. de Gand ., v., 252).—Nat. 
Ord., Aracese § Caladieae.—A fine-looking stove herbaceous perennial, having a climbing rhizome, furnished with 
cordate sub-rotundate ovate pinnatifid coriaceous leaves, three to four feet long, and remarkable from being pierced 
with small holes ; the divisions of these leaves are broadly linear, obliquely acuminate, and hooked. The spa¬ 
dix is unknown. From Guatemala. Introduced to Berlin, by M. Warzcewitz in 1849. Flowers? 
Anthurium amcenum, Kunth and Bouche. Pleasing Anthurium {Ann. de Gand., v. 185).—Nat. Ord., Oron- 
tiacese § Orontieae.—A stove perennial, with short straight rooting stems, furnished with oblong acuminate leaves, 
rounded at the base, nine inches long, and penninerved ; the petioles are about six inches long. The scape is three 
to four inches long, bearing the ovate-oblong sharply-pointed subcordate spathe, which is green, with purple at 
the apex, where it is revolute ; the spadix is about as thick as a,, quill. From Caraccas. Introduced to Berlin by 
M. Moritz about 1847. Flowers in September. 
Oberonia iridieolla, Bindley. Iris-leaved Oberonia {Bot. Mag., t. 4517).—Nat. Ord., Orchidacese § Ma- 
laxeae-Liparidic.—Syn., Cymbidium iridifolium, Boxburgh ; Malaxis ensiformis, Smith. —A small unattractive 
stove epiphyte, with a few broad ensiform leaves, and a spike of innumerable dense small flowers of a pale 
yellowish flesh-colour ; the flower spike, except in colour, looks like a stumpy rat’s tail. From India, Ceylon, and 
Otaheite. Introduced about 1848. Flowers in winter. Boyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Metrosideros buxifolia, Allan Cunningham. Box-leaved Metrosideros {Bot. Mag. t. 4515).—Nat. Ord., 
Myrtaceae § Leptospermeae.— Aid of the New Zealanders.—A neat box-like branching shrub, “ in its native country 
scandent and rooting like Ivy.” The leaves are disposed in four rows, numerous, small, almost sessile, elliptic or 
ovate-rotundate, dark green and glossy on the upper surface, somewhat paler and hoary beneath, the texture leathery; 
except in being blunter, they have much the appearance of those of a small leaved myrtle. The flowers grow from 
the axils of the terminal leaves, assuming the appearance of small leafy heads ; they are small and whitish. From 
New Zealand : forests of Wangaroa. Introduced before 1848, Flowers in August. Boyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
IIakea Victoria, Drummond. Boyal Hakea {Bond. Journ. Botany).- —Nat. Ord., Proteaceae § Folliculares.— 
A remarkably splendid evergreen greenhouse shrub, in its native country growing from twelve to fourteen 
feet in height, with white velvety stems and buds. The leaves, which are jagged and sinuated, are from six to 
eight inches long. The most conspicuous parts are the richly variegated bracts, which, on plants three or four 
years old, are borne in regular whorls, each whorl from seven to nine inches in height, formed of five rows, each 
containing five bracts ; the lowest bracts are the broadest, and measure from four to five inches, the whole breadth 
being about ten inches; they decrease in size upwards, the uppermost being only four inches across in their whole 
breadth. Each whorl is a year’s growth after the plant begins to flower; the first year they are yellowish-white 
in the centre, the veins, and the teeth; the second year what was white becomes golden yellow; the third year 
what was yellow becomes rich orange; and the fourth year blood-red; the green, light and luminous the first 
year, varies annually to deeper shades. Flowers not described. From Australia : near Mount Barren. Intro¬ 
duced about 1847. Flowers? Boyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Acropera armeniaca, Bindley. Apricot-coloured Acropera {Paxt. FI. Gard., i. 94).—Nat. Ord., Orchidacese 
§ Yandeae-Maxillaridae.—A curious and pretty stove epiphyte. The pseudo-bulbs and leaves are not described. 
The flowers grow in pendent, loose, many-flowered racemes, and are rather large, and coloured like the simny side 
of a ripe Apricot; the sepals are apiculate, the lateral ones oblique with the apex rounded ; the petals are free, 
half as long as the column ; the point of the lip free, undivided, and flat. From Nicaragua. Introduced, by M. 
Warcewitz, in 1849. Flowers in summer. Sir P. M. Egerton, Bart. 
Campanula nobilis, alba, Van Houtte. White noble Bellflower {Flore des Serves, t. 563).—Nat. Ord., 
Campanulaceoe § Campanulese.—A fine hardy herbaceous plant, raised from the Campanula nobilis, introduced to 
Europe by Mr. Fortune, fertilized by C. punctata. It has the habit and appearance of the original Chinese plant, 
but has advantageously exchanged the dingy purple of the blossoms of that kind, for a tolerably pure white, which 
is dotted over with small violet specks. A Belgian garden variety, raised by M. Van Houtte. Introduced in 1850. 
Flowers in the summer months. 
