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NEW GARDEN PLANTS. 
Odontoglossum Pescatorei, Linden. Pescatore’s Odontoglot.—Order Orchidaceae (Orchid tribe).—One of 
the most beautiful of this fine genus of Orchids. It has ovate two-leaved pseudo-bulbs. The leaves are strap 
shaped, shorter than the panicle, which is loose, many-flowered, and erect. The flowers are large, with ovate 
oblong sepals, white, with a delicate rosy central bar; the petals more ovate and wavy, pure white ; the lip 
heart-shaped, oblong, cuspidate, with a stain of yellow near the base, and a pair of broad, deep, lacerated appen¬ 
dages. The panicle is two feet high and branched. It has been introduced by M. Linden, from New Grenada, 
and flowers in April. It is beautifully figured in Paxton's Flower Gardon. 
Meconopsis TVallichii, Hooker. Dr. "Wallich’s Meconopsis.—Order Papaveraceae (Poppy tribe).—A hand¬ 
some perennial from Sikkim Himalaya, raised in the Royal Gardens at Kew. It grows two to three feet high, 
and is everywhere hairy, with long ferruginous setae. The root-leaves are large, lyrate-pinnatifid, those of the 
stem sessile, oblong pinnatifid. The flowers are large, of a pale blue colour, with a broad ring of orange-coloured 
anthers surrounding the style. It was introduced by Dr. Hooker, and flowered in June, 1852. 
Abelia triflora, R. Brown. Three-flowered Abelia.—Order Caprifoliacese (Caprifoil tribe).—A beautiful 
Indian shrub, growing about three feet high, with slender grayish branches, dark green ovate-lanceolate acute 
leaves, fringed with long hairs, and pinkish flowers growing in clusters of three at the end of shoots; they are pale 
yellow before expansion, but when open, are white, with the rounded segments of the limb tinged with rose. The 
flowers are remarkable for the long hairs—as long as the tube of the corolla, which cover the five narrow reddish 
sepals. It flowered at Glasnevin last June, under the care of Mr. Moore, and had been raised five years previously 
from seeds sent by Major Madden from Simlah. It is hardy in Ireland, but will probably require some protection 
in this country. 
Morwodes igneum, Bindley. Fiery Mormodes.—Order Orchidaceae (Orchid tribe).—A fine stove epiphyte 
from Central America, introduced by M. Warczewitz. It has a long many-flowered raceme of large fleshy 
blossoms, of which the sepals and petals are flat, linear-lanceolate, and chocolate-coloured, and the lip rolled back 
and angular-looking, and of a “ rich fiery orange brown.” It was flowered by S. Rucker, Esq., of AYandsworth, 
in January last. 
Posoqueria revolt)ta, Fees von Fsenbeck. Revolute-leaved Posoqueria.—Order Cinchonaceae (Cinchonad 
tribe).—A handsome hothouse shrub, with ovate-oblong evergreen leaves. The flowers grow five or six together 
at the end of the shoots, and are white, with a slender tube four inches long, suddenly expanding into a five-lobed 
limb. It has been introduced by Messrs. Yeitch, and flowers in spring. 
Diplacus glutinosus grandiflorus. Large-flowered glutinous Diplacus.—Order Scrophulariaceae (Linariad 
tribe).—This very pretty Diplacus has been figured in Paxton's Flower Garden , under the name above quoted, and 
is, along with D. puniceus , ranked as a variety of glutinosus. There is, however, this difference between them, 
besides size and colour, that whereas, in D. puniceus as in P. glutinosus , the tube of the corolla is very slightly 
widened towards the mouth, and the limb is spreading, in the plant under notice that part of the corolla above 
the calyx is widened very rapidly into a broad funnel-shaped mouth, the limb, at the same time, being much less 
spreading. The plant is a shrub, with erect branching stems, clothed with a short viscid glandular pubescence. 
The leaves are opposite, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed towards the base, where they are slightly connate, the 
margins revolute, serrulate in their upper half, the upper surface dark shining green, paler beneath. The flowers 
are solitary from the axils of the leaves, the pedicels densely glandular-pubescent much shorter than the calyx 
(usually about one-third its length), the calyx is elongate (1|- inches), its tube pentagonal, slightly swollen about 
the centre, and terminating in five unequal acuminate teeth, the upper of which is about twice the length of the 
lower, the surface glandular, here and there a little hairy, the margins of the teeth being fringed with an entangled 
mass of curved hairs, so that the mouth appears woolly. The corolla is large, and of a peculiar delicate tint, 
between nankin and salmon-colour, that part of the tube included in the calyx being very narrow and cylindrical, 
about a line in diameter and an inch long, the upper part widening rapidly for about an inch, where it is fully 
seven-eighths in diameter ; the limb is about half an inch long, the lobes broad, oblique, the two upper larger, 
and all cleft down the centre neatly their whole depth, so that the limb becomes almost ten-lobed. It was raised 
from Californian seeds, imported last year, and sold by Mr. Duncan Hairs, a seedsman, of London. Our plants, 
at Chelsea, flowered sparingly in the autumn of 1851, and more abundantly during the present year. It has been 
exhibited from several collections during the present summer. 
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