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NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
Ceanothus verrucosus, Nuttall. Warted-stemmed Ceanothus.—Order Lhamnacese (Lhamnad tribe). This 
fine hardy shrub is in cultivation under the name of C. integerrimm , which does not belong to it. It is a stiff 
branched evergreen, thickly clothed with leaves, which are roundish or roundish-wedge-shaped, and either entire 
or toothed on the margin. The flowers are pale purplish-blue, produced in small corymbs from the axils of the 
leaves, and they are abundantly produced in April and May. The stems are remarkable for having two to four 
ovate brown warty excrescences at the joints. 
Brachysema lanceolatum, Meisner. Lance-leaved Brachysema.—Order Fabacese, § Papilionacese (Legu¬ 
minous plants.)—A fine evergreen greenhouse shrub, of erect elongate habit, with silky branches and leaves in 
opposite pairs, varying much in form—ovate to narrow lanceolate. The flowers grow in axils, four to six 
together, on a sessile sub-compound raceme ; and though the corolla is rich scarlet, and of considerable size, yet 
it is so hidden by the calyx and foliage, that the plant is more botanically interesting than valuable for orna¬ 
mental purposes. It was sent from Swan Liver by Mr. Drummond, and has been three or four years in the 
gardens. 
Acacia Cycnorum, Bentham. Swan Liver Acacia.—Order Fabacese § Mimosese (Leguminous plants). A 
very handsome Acacia of the pulchella group. It has very hairy branches, without spines; alternate bipinnate 
leaves, with small, linear-oblong leaflets; and globose heads of deep yellow flowers, on peduncles growing from 
the axils of the leaves, and rather exceeding them in length. It was raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and 
Co., from seed sent by Mr. Drummond from Swan Liver, where it appears to be common. 
Echeveria bracteosa, Bindley. Bracteose Echeveria.—Order Crassulacese (Houseleek tribe). A succulent 
greenhouse plant, with thick glaucous bloom. The leaves grow in rosettes, at the end of a short fleshy stem, and 
are thick obovate obtuse. The peduncle is leafless, with a few deciduous scales, and terminated in a one-sided 
raceme of green and red flowers, remarkable for the large fleshy calyx, which is longer than the dull red sepals. 
It is a Mexican plant. Dr. Klotzseh called it Pachyphytum bracteosum. 
Hexacentris mysorensis, Wight. Mysore Hexacentris.—Order Acanthacese (Acanthad tribe). A very 
beautiful stove climber, from the Mysore country, introduced by F. Maltby, Esq., and bloomed by Messrs. "V eitch, 
of Exeter. It is a rather tender woody creeper, with opposite oblong-acuminate three-nerved leaves, obtuse at 
the base, sometimes lobed or hastate. The flowers grow in long pendulous racemes ; they are tubulai, with a \ery 
oblique two-lipped limb, of which the upper lip is obtuse, helmeted, and two-lobed, the lowei three-parted with 
ovate reflexed lobes; the tube is shaggy at the base inside. The flowers are yellow, with the face of the limb 
marked with rich red-brown blotches. It will become a very favourite stove climber, admirably suited for 
training on rafters. 
Comparettia cryptocera, JKonren. —Hidden-horned Comparettia. Order Orchidacese (Orchid tribe). Avery 
pretty stove epiphyte, with elongate compressed pseudo-bulbs, lanceolate ovate leaves, and loose pendulous racemes 
of flowers longer than the leaves, five to seven flowered; the sepals and petals small pink, the lip much larger, 
broad, blunt, deeply bilobed, without a crest on its disc, but having a small white tooth at the base. It has been 
flowered by M. Jacob Makoy. Professor Morren has published a figure in La Belgique Eorticole. The native 
country of the plant is not known. 
Lycaste tricolor, Klotzseh. Three-coloured Lycaste.—Order Orchidaceae (Orchid tribe). A pretty sto 1 . e 
perennial, with long ovate compressed pseudo-bulbs, furnished with three to five ribbed leaves a foot and a half 
long, and producing several flower stalks from the base of the bulbs. The sepals are brown-red, an inch and a 
half long; the petals rose-coloured, broader ; the lip is naked, three lobed towards the inside, rose-coloured 
darkly spotted. From Guatemala, and introduced to Berlin by M. M^arczewitz. 
Acineta Warczewitzii, Klotzseh. —Warczewitz’s Acineta.—Order Orchidacese (Orchid tribe). A stove epi¬ 
phyte, with ovate-oblong pseudo-bulbs, bearing three or four large leaves at top, and from the base a pendulous 
many-flowered scape of flowers of a pale waxy yellow colour, the petals and base of the lip dotted with red; the 
appendage to the lip is dark purple, and quadrangular, its middle lobe golden yellow. Flowers in April. Intro¬ 
duced from Central America to Berlin. 
Cordyline indivisa, Kunth. Undivided Cordyline.—Order Liliacese (Lilywort tribe).— A noble arborescent 
plant of yucca-like habit, native of New Zealand, and apparently capable of enduiing oui winters in the more 
favoured parts of the country; a plant which has lived out for many years at Exeter, being now twelve to four¬ 
teen feet high. The stem is terminated by a tuft of hard, sharp-pointed, sword-shaped leaves, nearly four feet 
long ; and from their centre comes the compound panicle, three or four feet long, covered with large, whitish 
cup-shaped flowers. It is grown by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 
Azalea amcena, Bindley. Dwarf crimson Chinese Azalea.—Order Ericaceae (Heathwort tribe).—A beau¬ 
tiful little dwarf evergreen bush, supposed to be hardy, having stood the winter of 1851-2, at Bagshot, unpro¬ 
tected. It has a very dwarf compact habit, bears small, flat, obovate leaves, blunt at the point, and rosy- 
crimson, almost regularly five-lobed flowers, nearly bell-shaped, and without calyx, that organ being exchanged 
or converted into an exterior corolla, so that the flowers have the character which is called ‘ hose in hose, as 
occurs in some varieties of Primrose. It was found by Mr. Fortune, in a nursery garden at Shanghae, and it is 
suggested that it may be a Chinese garden variety of some species of Azalea, of which we are as yet unacquainted 
with its normal state. As a greenhouse shrub it is a charming addition to our gardens, and if it proves hardy, its 
value will be greatly increased. 
