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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
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them and the stem; they are red, formed of four unequal, linear, glabrous sepals, bearing anthers on their spathu- 
late apex, and have very long styles ; these flowers are individually small, compared with other parts of the plant, 
but are rather showy from their number, and compact arrangement. From Australia. Introduced about 1846. 
Flowers in spring. Eoyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Stylidium mucronifolium, Sonder. Bristle-leaved Stylidium (Hot. Mag., t. 4538).—Nat. Ord., Stylidiaceae 
—A very pretty greenhouse herbaceous perennial, with wiry roots, and tufted 
stems two or three inches long, copiously furnished with glabrous spreading 
linear-subulate leaves, which are each tipped with setaceous mucro. The 
scapes are terminal, six or eight inches high, hearing a compact oval panicle 
of numerous bright yellow flowers, the segments of which are marked with a 
conspicuous zigzag line around the mouth; these segments are of nearly equal 
size, and of a somewhat ovate figure. From 
Australia : Swan River colony. Introduced 
in 1848. Flowers in the latter part of summer. 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter. 
Stylidium saxifragoides, Lindley. Saxi¬ 
frage-like Stylidium ( Bot. Mag., t. 4529).— 
Nat. Ord., Stylidiaceae.—Syn., S. assimile, 
Bentham .—A pretty greenhouse, perennial, 
herbaceous plant, hearing rosulate tufts of 
densely imbricated, spreading, linear leaves, 
which are somewhat incurved, acute, ending 
in a long hair or bristle, and fringed on the 
margin with short scabrous hairs; the colour 
yellow-green tinged with reddish-purple. 
The flower scapes grow from the centre of 
the tufts, ten inches or a foot high, bearing 
a simple raceme of eight or ten blossoms, 
which are (comparatively) large, creamy 
yellow, the column knee-jointed and red; 
the flowers consist (apparently) of four 
spreading segments, two of which are larger 
than the others; the upper part of the scape, 
pedicels, ovary, calyx, and the outside of the 
corolla, are clothed with short glandular 
hairs. From Australia : Swan River. In¬ 
troduced about 1848. Flowers in summer. 
Messrs. Yeitch, of Exeter. 
Cuphea ignea, Alph. Be Candolle .— 
The plant, which is cultivated in gardens, 
both in England and on the Continent, 
as the C. platycentra, having been found 
to differ from the plant so named by Mr. 
Bentham, Professor De CandoUe has 
given it the name of C. ignea, from the 
beautiful colour of its flowers, which is 
preserved even in the herbarium. 
1. Stylidium saxifragoides. 2. Stylidium mucronifolium. 
Catasetum fimbriatum, Lindley (see vol. i., 176).—According to Dr. Lindley ( Paxt. FI. Gard.') the Myan- 
thus fimbriatus, Morren, described at the page above quoted, is a species of Catasetum. 
Capaxea grandiflora, Becaisne (see p. 35).—Dr. Lindley, in Paxton's Flower Garden, writes the generic 
name of this fine plant Campanea. Dr. Planchon, in Van lloutte's Flore des Serves (quoting Decaisne in the 
Bevue Horticole, where the name was first published) writes it as we have done above. 
