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patagonica, Libocedrus tetragona and Podocarpus nubicola, are, no doubt, the four most interesting conifers for this 
country after Araucaria imbricata , which South America produces.” See Journal of Horticultural Society , vi., 264, 
and Botanical Magazine t., 4616. 
Araucaria Cookii, R. Brown. Captain Cook’s Araucaria.—Order Pinacese (Conifer tribe).—This is a fine 
evergreen greenhouse tree, with the general appearance of the well known Araucaria excelsa, but differing from 
that in having a more compact habit when old, and in being less rigid and graceful while young, in the scales of 
the cone having a longer and more reflexed mucro, and in their gibbous, not wedge-shaped form ; the scales more¬ 
over do not terminate in a hard woody truncated extremity, as in A. excelsa and A. Cunninghami , but are wholly 
surrounded by a thin wing. It is naturally a very tall-growing narrow-branched tree, and has been compared to 
a factory chimney. A native of New Caledonia, whence it was introduced in 1850, by Mr. C. Moore, Superin¬ 
tendent of the Sydney Eotanic Carden, under the MS. name of A. Simpsoni. See the Journal of the Horticultural 
Society , vi., 267, whence our figure is taken. 
Phyllocactus speciosissimo-crenatus, Bindley. Hybrid crenate Leaf-cactus.—Order Cactacese (Indian fig 
tribe).—A very showy hybrid Cactus, with the broad crenated stems, and loose narrow petalled flowers of its 
mother, Phyllocactus crenatus , and salmony pink coloured flowers, tinged towards the centre with purple, derived 
from its male parent, Cereus speciosissimus. It has been recently raised by Mr. Cordon, in the garden of the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. Dr. Lindley suggests the crossing of the Mammillarias and Echinocactuses with Cereus, and 
Phyllocactus and the hardy Opuntias with the brilliant hothouse species, as likely to yield interesting and beau¬ 
tiful results. Mr. Gordon’s hybrid is figured in Paxton’s Flower Garden ii., t. 62. 
Physochlaina grandiflora, Hooker. Large-flowered Physochlaina.—Order Solanaceae (Nightshade tribe). 
—A hardy herbaceous plant, apparently perennial, with a much branched glandular stem, and stalked ovate acute 
glandular alternate leaves. The flowers are drooping, and grow in leafy terminal panicles on elongated stalks. 
They are dingy-coloured, being like those of Hyoscyamus, to which indeed they are immediately allied. The 
corollas are an inch long, in form between bell-shaped and funnel-shaped, with a spreading mouth of short 
rounded lobes; the colour is yellow-green, tinged with purple, and marked with purple veins running longitu¬ 
dinally, and also obliquely transverse. It blooms in summer. From the plains of Thibet, at an elevation of 
15,000 feet; it was introduced in 1850, by Lieut. Strachey, to the Royal Botanic Garden, Hew. See Botanical 
Magazine , t. 4600. 
Dendrobium albo-sanguineum, Lindley. Sanguine-spotted white Dendrobe.—Order Orchidaceae (Orchid 
tribe).— A very beautiful summer-flowering stove epiphyte, with the appearance of Bendrobium formosum , but 
having more conspicuous flowers. It grows with thick erect knobby stems, bearing broad firm leaves. From the 
edges of the stems are produced the large showy nodding blossoms, in pairs, or, according to Mr. T. Lobb, in five 
or six flowered racemes. They measure three .to four inches across. The sepals are linear-lanceolate, the side 
ones being extended into -a short obtuse rounded chin; their colour is creamy white. The petals are much 
broader, oblong, of nearly the same colour, and vault over the lip and column ; the lip is very large, flat, roundish- 
obovate, retuse and apiculate, white, with two large deep red stains at the base. It is from Moulmein, where it 
occurs in open forests on hills near the Atran River, and was introduced in 1851, by Mr. T. Lobb, to the nursery 
of Messrs. Yeitch, of Exeter. See a very handsome figure in Paxton’s Flower Garden , ii., t. 57. 
Nymphyea elegans, Hooker. Elegant Water-Lily.—Order Nymphseacese (Water-Lily tribe).—A very hand¬ 
some and fragrant plant, flowering in the early part of summer. The floating leaves are nearly orbicular, mea¬ 
suring about six inches long by five broad, and having the margin sinuate and sub-dentate, and the sinus at the 
base long and narrow ; the upper surface green, the lower purple, both marked with elongated black spots. The 
flowers are nearly as large as those of the common white water-lily, and stand about a foot above the water. 
They have a calyx of four spreading oblong acuminate sepals, green, marked with dark brown streaks, and a 
corolla of from twelve to fourteen petals of the same form, yellowish-white, tinged with purplish blue; the 
stamens are numerous, deep yellow, and in the fully expanded flower stand in radiating lines or phalanges corre¬ 
sponding with the number of rays of the stigma, which are about fifteen. From New Mexico. Introduced in 1850 
by Dr. Wright, to the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. Figured in Botanical Magazine , t. 4604. 
Acacia bombycina Bentham. Silky Acacia.—Order Fabacese § Mimosese (Mimosa-like Leguminous Plants).— 
This is the Acacia podalyriwfolia of the gardens, but not the true species ; it is described under the above name by 
Mr. Bentham ,in Paxton’s Flower Garden , ii., 101. It is a handsome evergreen spring-flowering greenhouse 
bushy shrub, with sub-angular branches, having soft obovate-oblong, one-nerved phyllodes, one and a half to two 
and a half inches long, tapering to the base, and usually bearing a gland on the upper edge, a little below the 
middle. The globular flower heads grow on stalks shorter than the phyllodes, and are either single or in short 
racemes of from two to five, from their axils; the flowers are bright yellow. The whole plant is densely covered 
with a fine silky hairiness. It is from Swan River; and was introduced to our gardens by Mr. Drummond 
within the last few years. 
Pentstemon Wrightii, Hooker. Dr. Wright’s Pentstemon.—Order Scrophulariacese (Linariad tribe).—This 
plant, introduced from Texas in 1850, to the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, is a very handsome, nearly hardy 
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