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NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
Billbergia polystachya, Lindley. Many-spiked Billbergia.'—Order Bromeliaceae (Bromelwort tribe).—A 
very fine hothouse perennial, probably Brazilian, which was exhibited by M. de Jonghe, of Brussels, at Chiswick, 
in May last year. Dr. Lindley names it with some hesitation, not having had an opportunity of examining its 
flowers. Its leaves are channelled, margined with spiny teeth, inflated at the base, and curved back at the point. 
It flowers from a conical crowded compound mealy spike, on a scape taller than the leaves; its bracts and calyx 
are crimson, its corolla purple. Altogether it is a very pretty plant. 
Billbergia thyrsoidea, Martins. Thyrse-like Billbergia.—Order Bromeliacese (Bromelwort tribe).—A showy 
Pine-apple-like plant, with erect broad leaves, and a conical head of crimson flowers, issuing from amongst bracts 
of the same colour. It is a very beautiful stove perennial, and has been imported from Rio Janeiro by M. de 
Jonghe of Brussels, from whose nursery it has found its way to England. 
GastrolobiuSi calycinum, Bentham . Large-calyxed Gastrolobium.—Leguminacese § Papilionacese (Legu¬ 
minous plants).—A showy greenhouse shrub, of considerable value as an ornamental plant. The branches are 
smooth; the leaves are opposite (or temate) elliptic somewhat keeled, 
glaucous, and terminated by a long pungent awn ; at their base is a pair 
of spreading decurved spiny stipules. The flowers grow oppositely in 
terminal or axillary racemes, and are very large, the standard deep orange 
with a yellow spot at the base margined with crimson; the wings and 
standard deep crimson ; they grow from the axil of a large obovate mem¬ 
branous inflated strongly nerved bract, the nerve being extended into a 
recurved mucro; the calyx is very large, the upper lip much largest, 
bifid with very obtuse segments, the segments of the lower lip ovate acute. 
The ovary is villose and distinctly stalked. This interesting plant has 
been raised by Messrs. Henderson, from Mr. Drummond’s Swan Biver 
seeds, and we are indebted to them for the materials from which our 
figure and description are made. 
Phrynium sanguineum, Hooker. Red-leaved 
Phrynium.—Order Marantaceae (Marant tribe). 
•—This very fine stove plant is known in the 
gardens as Maranta sanguined. We have seen 
it in flower in several places, but nowhere finer 
than with Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston, by whom 
it was exhibited before the Horticultural Society. 
Whether in flower or not, the plant is orna¬ 
mental. It has leaves nearly or quite a foot 
long, oblong-acuminate, green above, reddish 
purple beneath, and attached by short petioles. 
The scape is taller than the leaves, and bears a 
compact panicle of bracteated flowers, the rachis 
bracts and sepals all bright red. The petals are 
white, and about as long as the sepals. It has 
been received from the gardens of the Continent, 
and there appears to be no information as to its 
orgin and native country. It is, at any rate, a 
very desirable stove herbaceous plant. 
Limatodes rosea, Lindley. Rosy Limatode. 
—Order Orcbidacece § Vandeae (Orchid tribe).— 
Messrs. Veitch flowered this very handsome 
novelty last December. It is a stove terrestrial 
orchid, with fusiform pseudo-bulbs, oblong 
lanceolate plaited leaves, and many-flowered 
scapes taller than the leaves, bearing loosely- 
arranged large rose-coloured villose flowers ; the 
lip is oblong undivided, rolled up at the base 
like a Cattleya, and marked at the base of the 
expanded part with a deep red ring; the sepals 
and petals are lance-shaped. This genus is 
nearly allied to Calanthe, and the present species 
is a beautiful addition to this favourite and showy tribe. It was found by Mr. T. Lobb, near Moulmein, and is 
described as a most abundant bloomer. 
Acrofera flavida, Rlotzsch. Yellowish Acropera.—Order Orchidaceae § Vandeae (Orchid tribe).— A stove 
epiphyte, with ovate pseudo-bulbs, bearing at their apex a pair of oblong acuminate leaves, narrowed downwards, 
and from their base a pendulous raceme of pale yellow flowers, having an orange-yellow lip. Kative of Mexico. 
GASTROLOBIUM CALYCINUM. 
