NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Gaultheria bracteata, G. Don. Bracteated Gaultheria {Hot. Mag., t. 4461).—Xat. Ord., Ericacese § Ericeee._ 
Syn., G. erecta, Ventenat; G. odorata, cordifolia, and rigida, Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth ; Andromeda brac¬ 
teata, Cavanilles. —A handsome, low-growing, evergreen, greenhouse shrub, growing a foot high, or upwards, having 
rigid hairy branches, and alternate ovate or cordate-ovate acute leaves, serrated and usually shining above. The 
flowers grow in simple axillary or terminal secund racemes, and are tubular-ovate, contracted at the mouth, rose- 
coloured, the pedicels having comparatively large, ovate, acute, rosy bracts at their base. From the Andes of 
Columbia. Introduced in 1848. Flowers in summer. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Gaultheria bracteata. 
Gladiolus gandavensis, citrines, Van Houtte. Citron-coloured Gladiolus {Flore des Serves, t. 539).— 
Xat. Ord., Iridacese.—A fine variety of the natalensis section of the genus Gladiolus. It differs from G. ganda¬ 
vensis, from which it appears to have been raised, only in the colour of the flowers, which are of a full citron 
yellow, the lower segments of the perianth having a narrow band of red down the centre. A hardy bulb, with 
sword-shaped leaves, a stem two to three feet high, bearing long crowded upright racemes of flowers. A garden 
variety raised by M. Lemonier of Lille, in 1848. Flowers during summer. 
Hoya ovallfolia, Wight and Arnott. Oval Hoya ( Faxt. FI. Gard., i., t. 23).—Xat. Ord., Asclepiadaeeee § 
Stapeliae.—A pretty stove climbing shrub, with opposite, narrowly oval, three-nerved fleshy leaves, the margins of 
which are recmved. The compact umbels of flowers grow on peduncles which are rather shorter than the leaves; 
the flowers themselves are fleshy yellow, the coronet being stained with red ; in form the segments of the corolla 
are ovate acute, the lobes of the coronet are re volute at the edge. From tropical India. Introduced by Mr. 
Gibson before 1840 ? Flowers in summer. Duke of Devonshire. 
Pitcairnia Jacksoni, Hooker. Jackson’s Pitcaimia {Bat. Mag., t. 4540).—Xat. Ord., Bromeliacese.—A 
handsome stove herbaceous plant, with a pine-apple-like habit, producing many suckers from the base. The leaves 
are subulate-ensiform, a foot or more in length, the upper half spinulose-serrate ; they are dark green above, 
clothed below with a pulverulent substance. The scape is leafy below, pulverulent, bearing a copious erect 
raceme of handsome scarlet flowers ; the calyx of three imbricated erect sepals about three quarters of an inch 
long, red, with a yellowish margin ; the corolla nearly three inches long, curved, the petals linear oblong, not at 
all spreading. From Guatemala. Introduced about 1847. Flowers in summer. Messrs. Jackson of Kingston. 
Acineta densa, Findley. Close-flowered Acineta {Faxt. FI. Gard., i., 91).—Xat. Ord., Orchidaceae § Yandeae 
Maxillaridae.—A pretty stove epiphyte, nearly related to A. Barkeri. The pseudo bulbs and leaves are not described. 
The flowers grow in dense short pendulous racemes, and are pale yellow, slightly spotted externally with crimson ; 
the lip is yellow at the point, spotted with broad blotches on the lateral lobes, and deep crimson in the space 
between them ; the flowers are somewhat fragrant. From Costa Rica ; Turialbia. Introduced iii 1849, by Mr 
Skinner. Flowers in summer. Messrs. Lane and Son of Berkhampstead. 
